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DORADigital Operational Resilience Act (EU 2022/2554)

The EU regulation that makes ICT risk a first-class concern for financial entities, with enforced uniformity across the EU since January 2025.

Who it applies to

DORA applies to banks, investment firms, insurance and reinsurance undertakings, payment institutions, electronic money institutions, crypto-asset service providers, central counterparties, trading venues, central securities depositories and a long tail of other financial entities, plus their critical ICT third-party providers.

What it requires

  • Article 9: ICT risk management framework with continuous identification, protection, detection, response and recovery
  • Article 13: digital operational resilience testing — including threat-led penetration testing (TLPT) for significant entities
  • Article 17: ICT-related incident management and reporting
  • Article 28: oversight of critical third-party ICT providers

How Sandline helps

  • TLPT exercises run by senior red-team engineers with EU TIBER-aligned methodology
  • ICT risk register and continuous vulnerability management built on Centraleyezer
  • Incident response retainer with DORA-aligned reporting templates
  • Third-party security assessment programme for critical ICT providers

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