🛡️ STATUS BADGE: 🟢 READY (Self-Hosted) | 🔵 CERTIFIED (SaaS)
Executive Summary: What is it?
The Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA) is an EU regulation, in force since January 2025, that sets uniform requirements for the security and operational resilience of information and communication technology (ICT) systems across the financial sector. It applies to banks, insurers, investment firms, and crypto-asset providers, and it reaches directly into the ICT third-party providers those entities depend on.
CFO / Business Impact: What does it cost/risk?
- Third-Party Accountability: Financial entities must map, monitor, and contractually govern every critical ICT provider. A vendor that cannot evidence its own resilience posture becomes a procurement blocker.
- Sovereignty Leverage: Self-hosting critical connectivity and access infrastructure keeps the resilience controls, and the audit evidence, inside the regulated entity rather than dispersed across foreign SaaS providers.
Technical Reality: How does it work?
- ICT Risk Management: Mandates documented controls for network segmentation, access management, and continuous monitoring across the ICT estate.
- Incident Reporting: Major ICT-related incidents must be classified and reported to the competent authority within regulated timeframes, backed by tested business-continuity and recovery procedures.