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.
