DORA: Strategic Resilience and Compliance

The European Union’s Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA) is a clear signal to the financial market that senior leadership is accountable for ensuring digital resilience. A reactive, tick-box approach across siloed departments, with little insight, is no longer defensible.

Navigating Complex Demands with a Unified Roadmap

The breadth of DORA’s requirements, spanning risk management, incident reporting, resilience testing, and third-party management, can be overwhelming. Many organisations struggle to define a clear starting point, leading to fragmented efforts and wasted resources. A clear, prioritised plan embedded within a unified resilience framework is essential. Without it, governance weakens, responsibilities blur, and confidence at board level suffers.

Strengthening ICT Supply Chain Integrity

DORA mandates rigorous due diligence, contractual provisions, continuous monitoring, and credible exit strategies for critical ICT third-party relationships. These obligations present a major challenge for existing procurement and supply chain functions.
Saros Consulting provides expert guidance through our ICT Third-Party Risk Management Programme Enhancement service. Our advice is independent and vendor-agnostic, helping you remediate contracts, conduct deep due diligence, and design and test credible exit strategies. We enable you to gain visibility and control, ensuring your third-party relationships are a source of strength, not vulnerability.

Preparing for Advanced Resilience Testing

For many financial entities, DORA will mandate advanced forms of resilience testing, culminating in Threat-Led Penetration Testing (TLPT). This is not a routine security assessment but a complex, intelligence-led simulation of a sophisticated cyber-attack on live production systems. Delivering such a programme requires technical expertise, strategic planning, and rigorous project management, often beyond internal capabilities.
Our Advanced Resilience Testing and TLPT Advisory service provides the strategic oversight and management required to navigate this ultimate test of resilience. We act as your trusted partner, from impartial procurement of accredited testers through to oversight of execution and translation of results into strategic board-level remediation.

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Translating DORA into Practical Action

We support organisations by aligning DORA’s requirements into a clear, strategic roadmap built on five core pillars of resilience:
  • ICT Risk Management: Establishing a robust governance framework to manage and mitigate digital risk across the enterprise

  • ICT-Related Incident Management and Reporting: Implementing consistent incident classification, management, and timely reporting to regulators

  • Digital Operational Resilience Testing: Designing and executing risk-based testing programmes, from foundational assessments to TLPT

  • ICT Third-Party Risk Management: Embedding resilience in contracts, conducting oversight, and defining viable exit strategies for critical providers

  •  Information and Intelligence Sharing: Supporting participation in trusted communities to enhance collective defence against cyber threats

Why choose Saros for your DORA journey
  • Deep Expertise in Regulated Industries: Experience at the intersection of complex technology and stringent regulation

  • Strategic, Vendor-Agnostic Advisory: Independent, impartial guidance focused solely on your organisation’s interests

  • Proven Programme Delivery Excellence: A world-class team of project and programme managers to provide the firm grip and safe hands needed to succeed

  •  Holistic, Business-First Approach: Resilience embedded into operations to create business value, not just regulatory compliance

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