DORA support
The Digital Operational Resilience Act imposes a demanding digital operational resilience framework on financial entities and their ICT providers. We support you from determining whether you are in scope through to maintaining compliance. Pragmatic, targeted, without unnecessary jargon.
Why become DORA compliant?
DORA (Digital Operational Resilience Act, EU Regulation 2022/2554) has been directly applicable since 17 January 2025. It harmonizes digital operational resilience requirements for the financial sector at European level. Supervisory authorities (ACPR, AMF, ESAs) now expect effective and documented compliance.
Beyond the regulatory obligation, DORA is a concrete lever to control your ICT risks, secure your digital outsourcing chain and demonstrate your robustness to your clients and regulators. Shortcomings expose you to sanctions and increased supervision.
The 5 pillars of DORA
ICT risk management
Implement a governance and risk management framework for information and communication technologies, overseen by the management body.
Incident management & notification
Detect, classify and notify major ICT-related incidents to the competent authorities within the timeframes imposed by the regulation.
Resilience testing
Regularly test digital operational resilience, up to penetration tests based on threat intelligence (TLPT) for significant entities.
Risk related to third-party ICT providers
Govern ICT outsourcing: contract register, mandatory clauses, monitoring of critical providers and exit strategies.
Information sharing
Participate in cyber threat information-sharing arrangements to collectively strengthen the sector's resilience.
Who is affected by DORA?
DORA applies to a broad scope of financial entities: banks and credit institutions, insurance and reinsurance companies, management and investment firms, payment and electronic money institutions, crypto-asset service providers (CASPs), and many others. The regulation also targets, through a dedicated supervision framework, critical third-party ICT service providers (cloud, managed services, software vendors) involved in these actors' digital chain. If your activity touches the European financial sector, you are very likely concerned.
Our methodology
We start by precisely determining whether you are in scope and the proportionality applicable to your profile, then we measure the gap between your current framework and the requirements DORA. Our approach is resolutely pragmatic and tailored: we build on your existing frameworks (ISO 27001, ACPR/AMF framework, PCA), we prioritize actions with strong regulatory impact, and we prepare you concretely for supervisory reviews. No unnecessary theory: only practical, field-based work.
Our step-by-step DORA support
Scope qualification
Determine your status with regard to DORA, the relevant scope and the principle of proportionality applicable to your profile.
Gap analysis DORA
Measure the gap between your current practices and the requirements of the 5 pillars, across governance, organizational and technical dimensions.
Action plan
Build a prioritized and realistic roadmap, with responsibilities, deadlines and remediation action tracking.
Compliance implementation
Deploy ICT risk governance, the contract register with ICT providers, incident management and the testing program.
Preparation for supervisory reviews
Build the evidence file, prepare your teams for interactions with authorities and verify documentary completeness.
Ongoing maintenance
Sustain compliance over time: periodic review of the register, regular exercises and tests, incident tracking and regulatory monitoring.
Why choose BCIT for DORA?
Regulatory & cyber expertise
We have full command of the regulation DORA, its technical standards (RTS/ITS) and information security. Our consultants are certified PECB DORA Lead Manager. A hands-on expert, not a generalist consultant.
Proportionate approach
We tailor the support to your size, risk profile and existing frameworks to avoid costly over-compliance.
Do your teams want to manage DORA independently?
In addition to support, we also offer the certification training PECB Certified DORA Lead Manager : your internal teams acquire the expertise to manage a DORA compliance program themselves, from governance through to resilience testing, certification exam included.
Frequently asked questions
Who is affected by DORA?
DORA applies to European financial entities (banks, insurers, management companies, crypto-asset service providers...) as well as critical third-party ICT service providers involved in their digital chain.
Since when has DORA been applicable?
DORA (EU Regulation 2022/2554) has been directly applicable since 17 January 2025, with no need for transposition into national law.
What are the risks in the event of DORA non-compliance?
Shortcomings expose you to sanctions from supervisory authorities (ACPR, AMF, ESAs) and increased supervision. Beyond the regulatory risk, your actual operational resilience remains exposed.
Ready to secure your DORA compliance?
Let's take 15 minutes for an initial discussion. We will understand your status, your context, and propose tailored and realistic support.
DORA support
The Digital Operational Resilience Act imposes a demanding digital operational resilience framework on financial entities and their ICT providers. We support you from determining whether you are in scope through to maintaining compliance. Pragmatic, targeted, without unnecessary jargon.
Why become DORA compliant?
DORA (Digital Operational Resilience Act, EU Regulation 2022/2554) has been directly applicable since 17 January 2025. It harmonizes digital operational resilience requirements for the financial sector at European level. Supervisory authorities (ACPR, AMF, ESAs) now expect effective and documented compliance.
Beyond the regulatory obligation, DORA is a concrete lever to control your ICT risks, secure your digital outsourcing chain and demonstrate your robustness to your clients and regulators. Shortcomings expose you to sanctions and increased supervision.
The 5 pillars of DORA
ICT risk management
Implement a governance and risk management framework for information and communication technologies, overseen by the management body.
Incident management & notification
Detect, classify and notify major ICT-related incidents to the competent authorities within the timeframes imposed by the regulation.
Resilience testing
Regularly test digital operational resilience, up to penetration tests based on threat intelligence (TLPT) for significant entities.
Risk related to third-party ICT providers
Govern ICT outsourcing: contract register, mandatory clauses, monitoring of critical providers and exit strategies.
Information sharing
Participate in cyber threat information-sharing arrangements to collectively strengthen the sector's resilience.
Who is affected by DORA?
DORA applies to a broad scope of financial entities: banks and credit institutions, insurance and reinsurance companies, management and investment firms, payment and electronic money institutions, crypto-asset service providers (CASPs), and many others. The regulation also targets, through a dedicated supervision framework, critical third-party ICT service providers (cloud, managed services, software vendors) involved in these actors' digital chain. If your activity touches the European financial sector, you are very likely concerned.
Our methodology
We start by precisely determining whether you are in scope and the proportionality applicable to your profile, then we measure the gap between your current framework and the requirements DORA. Our approach is resolutely pragmatic and tailored: we build on your existing frameworks (ISO 27001, ACPR/AMF framework, PCA), we prioritize actions with strong regulatory impact, and we prepare you concretely for supervisory reviews. No unnecessary theory: only practical, field-based work.
Our step-by-step DORA support
Scope qualification
Determine your status with regard to DORA, the relevant scope and the principle of proportionality applicable to your profile.
Gap analysis DORA
Measure the gap between your current practices and the requirements of the 5 pillars, across governance, organizational and technical dimensions.
Action plan
Build a prioritized and realistic roadmap, with responsibilities, deadlines and remediation action tracking.
Compliance implementation
Deploy ICT risk governance, the contract register with ICT providers, incident management and the testing program.
Preparation for supervisory reviews
Build the evidence file, prepare your teams for interactions with authorities and verify documentary completeness.
Ongoing maintenance
Sustain compliance over time: periodic review of the register, regular exercises and tests, incident tracking and regulatory monitoring.
Why choose BCIT for DORA?
Regulatory & cyber expertise
We have full command of the regulation DORA, its technical standards (RTS/ITS) and information security. Our consultants are certified PECB DORA Lead Manager. A hands-on expert, not a generalist consultant.
Proportionate approach
We tailor the support to your size, risk profile and existing frameworks to avoid costly over-compliance.
Do your teams want to manage DORA independently?
In addition to support, we also offer the certification training PECB Certified DORA Lead Manager : your internal teams acquire the expertise to manage a DORA compliance program themselves, from governance through to resilience testing, certification exam included.
Frequently asked questions
Who is affected by DORA?
DORA applies to European financial entities (banks, insurers, management companies, crypto-asset service providers...) as well as critical third-party ICT service providers involved in their digital chain.
Since when has DORA been applicable?
DORA (EU Regulation 2022/2554) has been directly applicable since 17 January 2025, with no need for transposition into national law.
What are the risks in the event of DORA non-compliance?
Shortcomings expose you to sanctions from supervisory authorities (ACPR, AMF, ESAs) and increased supervision. Beyond the regulatory risk, your actual operational resilience remains exposed.
Ready to secure your DORA compliance?
Let's take 15 minutes for an initial discussion. We will understand your status, your context, and propose tailored and realistic support.