From January 2025, the EU’s Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA) became directly binding on banks, insurers, investment firms, payment providers and a wide sweep of other financial entities across the Union, along with the critical ICT third parties that serve them. Its purpose is blunt: ensure that firms can withstand, respond to and recover from ICT disruptions and cyber incidents without threatening financial stability. DORA carries real supervisory teeth, and firms are expected to evidence resilience across five pillars. This toolkit provides the documentation that turns those regulatory articles into an operating framework you can actually run and demonstrate.
What you get
- ICT risk management framework, policy and governance documentation
- ICT asset inventory and risk register
- ICT-related incident classification, management and reporting procedures aligned to DORA thresholds
- Digital operational resilience testing programme, including guidance for threat-led penetration testing
- Third-party ICT risk management policy and a register of information on ICT service providers
- Contractual arrangement checklists for critical ICT outsourcing
- Business continuity and ICT response and recovery plans
- Information and cyber threat sharing procedure
- Management body oversight and reporting templates
Why firms choose it
Interpreting DORA’s articles and the associated Regulatory Technical Standards into working documents is demanding, and specialist advisory hours add up fast. This set does the heavy structural work for you. You receive a complete set of editable templates in Word and Excel, organised around DORA’s five pillars and cross-referenced to the relevant articles, so a supervisor or internal auditor can follow your evidence trail. Each document is fully editable, delivering examination readiness, substantial time saved against drafting in-house, and a resilience framework your risk, IT and compliance functions can maintain together, without an open-ended consulting engagement.
Purchase once, tailor it to your firm’s ICT estate and service providers, and close the gap to DORA conformance with documentation regulators recognise.
