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Financial Services · Digital Operational Resilience Act

The EU regulation, applicable since January 2025, requiring financial entities to withstand, respond to and recover from ICT disruptions, including those at third parties.
Book a DORA assessment

Issued by

European Union

Typical timeline

10-20 weeks

Assessed by

Gap assessment

Validity

Ongoing obligation

Overview

  • 01EU banks, insurers, investment and payment firms
  • 02Crypto-asset service providers
  • 03ICT providers serving EU financial entities

Requirements

  1. 01ICT risk managementA governed framework owned by the management body.
  2. 02Incident reportingClassification and reporting of major ICT incidents.
  3. 03Resilience testingRegular testing, with threat-led penetration testing for some entities.
  4. 04Third-party riskRegister of information and contractual requirements for ICT providers.

Our approach

Week 1

01

Scope

We learn your product, your buyers and your deadlines, then fix the exact frameworks, boundaries and systems in scope.

Weeks 2-3

02

Assess

Control-by-control gap assessment against every target framework at once, with a single prioritized findings register.

Weeks 3-10

03

Remediate

Policies written, controls implemented, evidence automated. We work inside your tools, Jira, GitHub, AWS, Google Workspace.

Weeks 10-14

04

Audit

Mock audit, auditor selection and fieldwork coordination. Your independent auditor issues the report; we sit beside you until they do.

Year-round

05

Sustain

Continuous monitoring, quarterly testing and a renewal calendar that never surprises you.

Customer story

OPOrbital PayLondon, UK & Bengaluru, IN
Sample

41%

Smaller cardholder data scope

PCI DSS v4 and DORA readiness without doubling the compliance team.

PCI DSSSOC 1DORA

FAQ

Typical timeline: 10-20 weeks, depending on scope, maturity and team availability. We'll give you a firm plan after a two-week scoping and gap assessment.

Yes, that's our specialty. DORA shares substantial control overlap with ISO 27001 and ISO 22301, so we build one control set and map evidence across all of them.

Next framework

SEBI CSCRF

Financial ServicesSecurities and Exchange Board of India

End of the thread

A 30-minute call with a senior practitioner. You leave with a plan either way.

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We handle audit readiness and auditor coordination. Your SOC reports and ISO certificates are always issued by independent, accredited auditors.

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