Dora regulations: a guide to compliance
Ensure the operational resilience of your financial entity!
The DORA regulations, which come into force on January 17, 2025, impose unprecedented standards of operational resilience for financial and insurance companies in Europe.
Whether you're part of a bank or an insurance company, this guide gives you a clear view of the regulations and walks you through the steps to meet DORA requirements and turn compliance into a strategic advantage.
What you'll find in this guide
- Back to regulation: zoom in on the foundations of regulation, from ICT risk management to resilience testing and supplier monitoring obligations
- Key steps to sustainable compliance: discover a structured path to integrating DORA into your organization
- A practical guide to implementing the 5 pillars, aligned with companies' current organizations. It helps to address the compliance journey while adjusting transformation plans based on adherence and maturity audits, focusing on areas requiring particular attention or expertise.
- Micropole's expertise in cybersecurity and compliance: benefit from practical advice from our team, with recognized experience in helping companies achieve regulatory compliance.
Why download this guide?
With DORA, regulators are imposing a strict framework for surviving during a crisis, managing it, communicating and returning to the nominal with lessons learned. This guide will help you :
Structuring your IT risk management
in compliance with new European standards.
Gaining resilience and responsiveness
in the face of current and future technological threats.
Optimize your relationships with IT suppliers
and secure your critical processes.
Prepare your organization for tomorrow's challenges today! Download our free guide to discover the keys to successful compliance.
Meet the challenges posed by the Dora Regulation
and ensure your operational resilience with Micropole
The DORA regulation represents a major turning point for technology risk management in the financial sector. This white paper is an essential resource for understanding the challenges of DORA and the best practices to adopt to strengthen operational resilience.
Micropole, with its recognized expertise in cybersecurity and risk management (GRC), offers comprehensive, pragmatic support to help companies effectively navigate the path to DORA compliance. Our audits cover critical and non-critical third parties, including questionnaire design, response analysis and legal support for contractual clauses. We also organize vulnerability tests on Cloud environments (AWS, Azure, GCP). In terms of risk management, we provide risk mapping, governance, monitoring and remediation, while integrating these elements into existing governance. Finally, we support the identification and management of critical IT assets, ensuring their alignment with the company's operational resilience objectives.
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Your questions about Dora & operational resilience
Dora regulations: who's affected?
The DORA (Digital Operational Resilience Act) regulation is primarily aimed at financial entities operating in the European Union. This includes :
- Banks, investment companies, asset managers, credit institutions, electronic money institutions, asset management companies, payment institutions...
- Insurance and reinsurance companies, insurance and reinsurance intermediaries...
- Critical third-party ICT service providers operating within the European Union in financial services (including IT and cloud services)
It applies to any organization with a key role in the European financial system, whatever its size.
What is operational resilience?
Operational resilience refers to the ability of a financial entity to build, maintain and control its operational integrity and reliability by guaranteeing the use of services provided by ICT service providers. An organization must therefore be able to continue its activities despite disruptions (cyber-attacks, technological failures, natural disasters, etc.).
For a financial company, this means :
- Proactive risk anticipation
- Incident-resistant systems
- Rapid recovery plans to minimize the impact of crises
Under DORA, operational resilience becomes a regulatory obligation.
Do Dora regulations apply to credit unions?
Yes, DORA applies to credit unions when they provide financial services or manage critical infrastructures. They must comply with requirements relating to risk management, third-party monitoring and resilience testing.
Do Dora regulations apply to branches?
Yes, if the branch belongs to a regulated entity operating in the European Union. Branches must comply with the same requirements as their parent company, particularly in terms of risk management for digital technologies and business continuity.
What are the 5 pillars of the Dora diet?
- ICT risk management: identifying, assessing and controlling digital risks
- Operational resilience: setting up resilient systems and continuity plans
- Incident reporting: prompt notification of major incidents
- Resilience testing: regular simulation of scenarios to assess ability to manage crises
- Monitoring critical third parties: tracking and managing risks related to external suppliers
What is the aim of the Dora regulation?
DORA aims to strengthen the resilience of the European financial system in the face of new digital threats. Its main objectives include:
- Protect consumers against service interruptions or data loss
- Guarantee business continuity for financial institutions in the event of an incident
- Harmonizing digital resilience requirements across the EU
By adopting DORA, the EU aims to anticipate crises, reduce vulnerabilities and strengthen confidence in digital financial systems.
