DORA compliance, operational resilience for finance
Classify incidents fast, keep the register of information current, and evidence your resilience testing.
The Digital Operational Resilience Act (Regulation (EU) 2022/2554) has applied since 17 January 2025 to EU banks, insurers, investment firms, payment institutions and other financial entities. It requires ICT risk management, major-incident reporting, resilience testing, third-party risk management with a register of information, and oversight of critical ICT providers. ComplyEasyAI structures each pillar.
TL;DR
- Applies since 17 January 2025 to most EU financial entities.
- Major incidents: initial notice within 4 hours of classification, and within 24 hours of awareness.
- Every in-scope entity keeps a register of information on its ICT third-party contracts.
- Designated entities run threat-led penetration tests at least every three years.
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Sources: EUR-Lex, Regulation (EU) 2022/2554 (DORA)EUR-Lex, Delegated Regulation (EU) 2025/301EBA, Joint technical standards on major incident reporting
What does DORA require?
The requirements below define DORA. ComplyEasyAI maps your environment to each one.
ICT risk management
Maintain a comprehensive framework to manage ICT risk.
Incident reporting
Classify and report major ICT-related incidents to regulators.
Resilience testing
Run a digital operational-resilience testing programme.
Third-party ICT risk
Manage and monitor risk from ICT service providers, with a register of information.
Information sharing
Participate in threat-intelligence sharing arrangements.
How do you prepare for DORA?
Scope
Define the systems, boundaries and requirements your program will cover.
Connect your stack
Link cloud, identity, code and ticketing systems, read-only for evidence collection; controls are discovered and mapped.
Collect evidence
AI agents gather configuration and activity evidence on a schedule, building a versioned trail.
Monitor & remediate
Continuous monitoring flags drift the moment it happens and routes it to an owner.
Track effectiveness
Operating effectiveness is recorded over time, ready for your observation window.
Report & hand off
Organized, current evidence is packaged for auditors and stakeholders.
How does ComplyEasyAI automate DORA compliance?
Control mapping
Your environment is mapped to each requirement, so you see exactly which control satisfies what.
Automated evidence
Integrations build a versioned, timestamped evidence trail instead of manual screenshots.
Continuous monitoring
Drift surfaces as soon as it happens, not during fieldwork.
Readiness dashboards
Real-time views highlight failing or unmapped controls with owners attached.
Multi-framework reuse
Shared controls are mapped once and reused across every framework you run.
Audit-ready reporting
Export organized, current evidence packages on demand.
Which frameworks are related to DORA?
DORA FAQ
Who must comply with DORA?
EU financial entities, including banks, insurers, investment firms, payment and e-money institutions and crypto-asset service providers, plus oversight of critical ICT third-party providers.
When did DORA apply?
On 17 January 2025, across all in-scope entities.
How fast must major incidents be reported?
An initial notification within 4 hours of classifying an incident as major, and no later than 24 hours after becoming aware of it. An intermediate report follows within 72 hours of the initial notification, and a final report within one month.
What counts as a major incident?
Incidents are classified by criteria such as clients affected, duration, geographic spread, data losses, critical services affected and economic impact.
How do you help?
The platform structures ICT risk, incident classification and the third-party register in one program.
Start your DORA program.
Map the requirements, automate the evidence, stay audit-ready.