The EU Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA) sets binding requirements for how financial entities – and the ICT providers that serve them – manage technology risk, handle incidents, and stay operational under attack. Persist Security helps financial firms, fintechs, and their technology suppliers become and stay DORA compliant, from an initial gap assessment to a resilient, auditable operating model.
DORA is now enforced across the EU, and it reaches beyond banks: payment firms, insurers, investment firms, crypto-asset providers, and the critical ICT vendors behind them all fall in scope – including non-EU companies serving EU financial clients. Non-compliance carries significant regulatory and commercial risk. A structured DORA readiness program turns a complex regulation into a clear, prioritized plan your organization can actually execute.
A structured review of your current posture against all five DORA pillars, so you know exactly where you stand and what compliance requires.
Guidance tailored to banks, fintechs, insurers, investment and payment firms, and the ICT providers that serve them.
Documented controls, testing, and reporting that satisfy regulators and demonstrate genuine operational resilience.
We confirm whether and how DORA applies to you, then assess your maturity across all five pillars against the regulation.
We strengthen ICT risk management and third-party oversight, including register of information and provider contractual requirements.
We implement DORA-aligned incident classification and reporting, and design a digital operational resilience testing program.
You receive a prioritized remediation roadmap and an operating model that keeps you compliant and resilient over time.
Meet binding EU requirements and avoid the penalties and commercial fallout of non-compliance.
Withstand, respond to, and recover from ICT disruptions and cyberattacks with a tested, repeatable process.
Bring your critical ICT providers under structured oversight, a core DORA requirement.
Satisfy the due-diligence demands of EU financial clients and win business that requires DORA alignment.
Our approach maps directly to DORA’s five pillars: ICT risk management, ICT-related incident reporting, digital operational resilience testing, ICT third-party risk management, and information sharing. We assess your current state against each pillar, close the gaps with practical controls, and align the work with frameworks you may already run. The engagement pairs naturally with our compliance & GRC consulting, GDPR compliance, penetration testing, and incident response services.
DORA is not a one-time certificate – it is an ongoing operational discipline. We build resilience testing, incident reporting, and third-party oversight into how your organization actually works, so you stay compliant through audits and, more importantly, stay operational when a real disruption hits.
Contact us today to scope a DORA readiness assessment and get a clear roadmap to compliance and operational resilience.
The Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA) is an EU regulation that sets uniform requirements for the security and operational resilience of financial entities and their ICT service providers. It covers ICT risk management, incident reporting, resilience testing, third-party risk, and information sharing, and is now enforced across the European Union.
DORA applies to a broad range of financial entities – banks, payment and e-money institutions, investment firms, insurers, crypto-asset service providers, and more – as well as the critical ICT third-party providers that serve them. Non-EU companies that provide services to EU financial entities can also fall within scope.
DORA is built on five pillars: ICT risk management, ICT-related incident reporting, digital operational resilience testing, ICT third-party risk management, and information and intelligence sharing. A compliance program should address all five.
GDPR governs personal-data privacy and ISO 27001 certifies an information security management system. DORA is specifically about the operational resilience of the financial sector – ensuring firms can keep running through ICT disruptions and cyberattacks. The frameworks overlap, and a strong ISO 27001 or GDPR foundation makes DORA readiness easier.
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