European Union — financial services.

DORA

DORA (Digital Operational Resilience Act)

Applies to

EU financial entities and their critical ICT third-party providers. Banks, insurers, investment firms, crypto-asset providers, and the technology vendors that serve them.

Creates urgency when

January 17, 2025 enforcement date passed; ongoing enforcement and ICT-vendor concentration analysis are creating waves of remediation work.

Evidence burden

ICT risk management, incident classification and reporting, operational resilience testing (including threat-led penetration testing for significant entities), and third-party risk management.

Buying-committee effect

Brings the CRO, head of operational resilience, and ICT third-party risk teams into the buying motion. Financial regulators are de-facto stakeholders.

GTM angle

A resilience and concentration-risk story, not a cyber-feature story. The buyer wants to demonstrate to the regulator that ICT failure cannot cascade across the system.