Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA)
DORA is part of the European Commission’s Digital Finance Strategy designed to uplift existing information communications technology (“ICT”) risk management requirements for financial entities and to consolidate these requirements into a single legislative instrument.
The Act came into force on 17 January 2025 and applies to a wide range of financial entities, including credit institutions, electronic money institutions, investment firms, insurance undertakings and re-insurance undertakings. Importantly, DORA will also result in certain major ICT service providers formally coming within scope of supervision by the European Supervisory Authorities for the first time.
Technical Standards
DORA is supported by technical standards that provide regulatory guidance in respect of certain key areas under the Act and will be helpful for many organisations and their DORA compliance projects. For the latest updates on DORA, Please visit our “Knowledge” section below.
DORA Toolkit
Our DORA Toolkit has a series of concise, practical, and easy to read guides and checklists to help Financial Entities implement the requirements introduced by DORA. It can be used to assess your current compliance status against DORA, and to highlight those areas where further work may be required. To read more about the toolkit, please click on the image below.
Our Knowledge
DORA Register of Information – Achieving a Key Milestone
DORA Register of Information – The Final Stretch
DORA Compliance: What is an ICT Service?
Reminder – Pension schemes and the Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA)
Pensions Update: Winter 2024
DORA Compliance: What Financial Entities Need to Know
DORA: Who, What and When for Fund Managers
DORA Spotlight: Practical insights on the second batch of draft technical standards
New draft technical standards provide useful guidance for DORA compliance projects
Key considerations for fintech providers
Digital Operational Resilience Act
Update on key EU operational resilience and cybersecurity legislative developments
Our Team
Ian Duffy
Partner | Dublin | Technology and Innovation
Sarah Thompson
Partner | Dublin | Financial Regulation
Robert Cain
Partner | Dublin | Financial Regulation
Ciara Anderson
Senior Associate | Dublin | Technology and Innovation
