DORA Compliance

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What Is DORA Compliance?

The Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA) is an EU regulation (EU 2022/2554) designed to prevent systemic financial collapse caused by cyber attacks or ICT failures. It shifts the regulatory focus from basic data protection to total operational continuity.

If your organisation operates in the UK or EU financial sector, or supplies ICT services to it, DORA obliges you to prove you can resist, contain, and rapidly recover from severe cyber disruptions.

01. Risk Oversight

Governance, asset registers, and framework hardening.

02. Incident Reporting

Rapid workflows and statutory notice templates.

03. TLPT Testing

Penetration testing on live production systems.

04. Vendor Audits

Supply chain reviews and RTS contract alignment.

05. Threat Sharing

Threat intelligence feeds and security integration.

How Risk Crew Unbreaks Your DORA Readiness

We don’t sell bloated software subscriptions or 300-page PDF reports that sit on a shelf. We focus strictly on the five pillars regulators inspect:

We review your architecture, asset registries, and controls to ensure risk decisions match your actual risk capacity. We help you establish governance structures that pass regulatory scrutiny without slowing down daily operations.

When a system goes down, you don’t have time to draft a report from scratch. We build rapid incident classification models and template workflows so your team can notify authorities within strict statutory windows.

Under DORA, standard vulnerability scans aren’t enough. Our CREST-accredited ethical hackers execute live, threat-led simulations to test your detection limits and prove your production systems can take a hit.

Your compliance is only as strong as your weakest software supplier. We audit your critical ICT providers, identify supply chain exposure, and rewrite vendor contract terms to align with mandatory regulatory technical standards (RTS).

We help you set up secure threat-sharing mechanisms so your security operations team can consume, analyse, and act on industry-wide threat intelligence in real time.

Experienced and Accredited DORA Consultants

What You Get: Practical Deliverables, Zero Fluff

Deliverable	What It Solves	Who Reads It
DORA Gap & Deficit Audit	Pinpoints exact operational gaps against current RTS/ITS rules.	CISO & Compliance
Prioritised Remediation Matrix	Tells your IT team exactly what to fix first, ordered by risk severity.	Head of IT & SOC
Vendor Exposure Register	Highlights high-risk ICT suppliers that threaten your compliance.	Procurement & Legal
Executive Board Briefing	Summarises liability, risk exposure, and progress in plain English.	Board of Directors

The 5 Pillars of DORA

The first step to compliance is understanding that DORA is divided into five core pillars that address various aspects or domains within information and
communications technology (ICT) and cyber security, providing a comprehensive digital resiliency framework for the relevant entities.
The pillars are summarised as follows:

1. ICT Risk Management

A documented ICT risk management framework must be established which enables financial entities to quickly mitigate ICT risks.

2. ICT-related Incident Reporting

Early notification systems must be in place to detect, report and mitigate incidents efficiently.

3. Digital Operational Resilience Testing

A testing programme should be established appropriate to the business risk profile. This may include penetration and Red Team testing based on the organisation’s risk level.

4. ICT Third-Party Risk Management

A high level of managing ICT third-party service provider risk is required. Providers with critical or important functions must be identified and mapped to dependencies.

5. Information Sharing

DORA encourages trusted financial entities to elevate awareness of ICT-related risks by sharing threat intelligence.

Thanks to Risk Crew, we are DORA compliant. We appreciated the process and collaboration evolved between our team and the Risk Crew team. We all enjoyed working with them as they made us feel like they were an extension to our team rather than an external supplier.

Rachael, Operational Technology Officer

Insurance Industry

Compared to other Information Security consultancies; Risk Crew understand both (ALL) threats and governance from a top-down perspective and plugging in the necessary resources to achieve the task. It was a pleasure to have worked with Risk Crew.

Richard, CTO

Finance Industry

A fantastic team of experts. They understand GRC and how to merge existing process into current compliance requirements. The staff are professional, extremely knowledgeable and friendly – not to mention very patient. Would highly recommend.

Greg, CIO

Software Industry

Why Risk Crew? (The Customer Guarantee)

	Our 100% Satisfaction Guarantee	If our work doesn't meet the agreed scope and standards, you don't pay for it.
	100% Vendor-Neutral	We don't push security software or take reseller kickbacks. Our advice is 100% objective.
	Senior UK Consultants	You get seasoned practitioners (holding CISSP, CISA, and ISO Lead Auditor credentials).
	30-Day Implementation Safety Net	Every report includes 30 days of direct phone and email access to your lead consultant to help you execute the recommendations.

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FAQs

Yes. DORA applies to any UK firm providing financial services inside the EU, as well as UK-based ICT service providers supplying financial entities operating within the EU. Additionally, UK regulators (FCA/PRA) maintain closely aligned operational resilience requirements.

Under DORA, financial entities cannot legally maintain contracts with non-compliant critical ICT vendors. If a vendor fails to allow security audits or meet RTS standards, the financial firm must have an explicit exit strategy to transition to a compliant provider.

Regulators can fine critical ICT third-party providers up to 1% of their average daily worldwide turnover per day until compliance is met. Financial firms face significant administrative fines, public sanctions, and potential personal liability for senior management.

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