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Expert DORA consultancy helping financial institutions across the UK and Europe navigate the EU Digital Operational Resilience Act with confidence.
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DORA identifies five critical areas and helps organisations focus attention where the potential impact is high.
ICT Risk Management
Overarching frameworks to standardise identification of critical assets and their dependencies, allocate priorities and quantify ICT risks using various scenarios and models.
Learn moreCompliance
Navigate complex regulatory landscapes with expert guidance on DORA compliance, helping your organisation meet all requirements and evidence its compliance effectively.
Learn moreThird-Party Audit
Comprehensive audit services for ICT suppliers, from dedicated theme audits to end-to-end reviews and independent reports for third-party service providers.
Learn moreHow can your organisation evidence its compliance with DORA?
Recently published ESA guidelines, which various central banks have also echoed, create a tight timeline for showing evidence of compliance.
Most central banks expect to receive the information registers by early April 2025, which aligns with the next steps of register consolidation, evaluation, and use for Critical ICT third-party service providers (CTPPs), aiming to designate the CTPPs and start the oversight engagement this year.
Your organisation register must include the required details, which are typically unavailable; therefore, it takes time to compile and validate it. This includes mapping all ICT assets, documenting dependencies, and classifying services according to their criticality to your business operations.
DORA compliance is not a one-off exercise. It requires an ongoing programme of risk management, incident reporting, resilience testing, and third-party oversight that must be embedded into your organisation's governance structure.
In our workshops, we will help you evaluate your current level of ICT compliance and provide a relevant structure to manage it efficiently. We can also support your organisation by outsourcing various compliance processes to us.
Have you started auditing your ICT suppliers?
It can be tedious since small to medium-sized financial entities use between 15 and 60 ICT suppliers. While not all of those suppliers are critical, and we assume that your organisation could identify those correctly, even for those that are critical, the audit will take, on average, 7 to 10 days to complete. The larger entities can expect a more significant number of critical suppliers with associated efforts.
The ESA regulatory technical standards on third-party risk set out specific requirements for the content of contracts with ICT service providers, sub-outsourcing arrangements, and the information register that financial entities must maintain. Understanding these requirements early allows you to plan your audit programme effectively.
We can help with our audit services, from dedicated theme audits to comprehensive end-to-end reviews. Let's have a chat about your DORA challenges.
Now is the time to ask yourself critical questions
- Do you believe that your organisation is resilient or not?
- Are you fully aware of all the services provided by and all the dependencies to your third-party ICT providers?
- Do you have a good grasp of all ICT related incidents?
- Can you recover a critical solution to support your customers in the next 4 to 8 hours?
In a world of constant change, you need to serve your customers and markets continuously in the best possible way. Your stability is essential — therefore, being well prepared is crucial.
The EU Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA) is a complex regulation that requires significant attention across your entire organisation. From board-level governance to day-to-day ICT operations, every layer of your business must understand its role in maintaining digital operational resilience.
Our training programmes are designed to give your teams the knowledge they need, while our expert workshops provide hands-on guidance for building a compliant and resilient operation.
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