DORA

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Navigate DORA with Confidence

The Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA) is a landmark initiative designed to bolster the financial sector’s resilience to digital risks. While it provides comprehensive requirements to enhance operational resilience, many financial institutions face significant challenges in interpreting and applying its provisions. Despite its detailed scope, DORA’s principles often leave room for interpretation, creating uncertainty for stakeholders tasked with ensuring compliance.

At Brightlyn, we specialize in guiding financial institutions through the complexities of DORA. One of Brightlyn's founders is the co-author of the DORA Control Framework, published by NOREA, the professional association of IT auditors in The Netherlands. Leveraging this expert-approved framework, we help our customers achieve DORA compliance while building highly resilient organizations capable of withstanding emerging digital threats.

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Your path to DORA compliance

From assessment to resilience

Our approach is rooted in the 4-step methodology recommended by NOREA, tailored to deliver clarity, compliance, and actionable results:

Assess: We begin by helping you identify your organization’s critical and important functions (as outlined in Article 8.1). This includes conducting a thorough analysis of your key business processes and the supporting ICT infrastructure, including third-party dependencies essential to your operations.
Risk Assessment: We perform a detailed risk assessment of your identified ICT infrastructure, building a clear risk profile and prioritizing areas that demand immediate attention.
Gap Analysis: Using the DORA Control Framework, we evaluate your current resilience measures against DORA requirements, pinpointing gaps and areas for improvement with precision.
Roadmap Development: Finally, we create a tailored roadmap to address identified gaps and root causes. This roadmap focuses on practical, sustainable solutions and mitigating measures that ensure full compliance with DORA requirements while strengthening your long-term operational resilience.

With Brightlyn as your partner, navigating DORA compliance is no longer a daunting task. We simplify complexity, offering the expertise, tools, and guidance needed to create a secure, compliant, and resilient organization.

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End-to-end approach

DORA 4-step approach

We provide a complete, end-to-end approach designed to fully unburden our customers. From identifying control weaknesses to implementing solutions and providing assurance, we ensure the quality and reliability of your critical business processes at every step.

1. Asset inventory

Identify, catalog and visualize the CORE-functions and the ICT assets that supports them

2. Risk assessment

Establish a risk & proportionality profile prioritize areas of attention

3. Gap assessment

Identify DORA gasps and highlight improvement areas

4. Roadmap development

Develop a roadmap and build actual digital & operational resilience

Frequently asked questions

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1. What is DORA and why should my organization take it seriously?

DORA (Digital Operational Resilience Act) is more than just another compliance requirement. It’s a binding EU regulation that holds financial entities accountable for the resilience of their digital operations. Failure to comply doesn’t just carry reputational and operational risk—it can lead to regulatory penalties. Brightlyn helps you move beyond checkbox compliance toward true operational resilience.

2. We already follow ISO 27001 and NIST. Do we still need a separate DORA strategy?

3. How long does a DORA assessment take and what’s expected from our side?

4. How does Brightlyn’s approach differ from other advisory firms?

5. Can Brightlyn support us after the initial roadmap is delivered?

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