DORA Compliance Made Easy

Everything you need to get started with DORA compliance.

What is DORA?

The Digital Operational Resilience Act: A response to third-party risk and global disruption.

The WHAT

DORA aims to shield EU financial institutions from cyber threats, boost resilience, and ensure swift recovery from IT disruptions. It establishes unified digital security standards across member states, strengthening the sector's ability to withstand ICT-related challenges and fostering high-level operational resilience EU-wide.

The WHY

The financial sector faces a surge of sophisticated cyber-attacks, with hackers exploiting vulnerabilities in third-party providers and supply chains. This puts organizations at risk of breaches and disruptions. The EU is mandating financial institutions to prioritize cyber resilience.

DORA ENFORCEMENT

What are the consequences of non compliance?

DORA has established serious penalties, those which are enforced by the European Supervisory Authorities (ESAs). These penalties can include:

Large Chartreuse Shield

Up to 2% of total annual worldwide turnover

Individual fines and criminal penalties

Loss of consumer trust and reputational damage

DORA SCOPE

Organizations impacted by DORA

DORA affects financial services organizations operating within EU member states and the third-party service providers they use. Even U.S.-based companies delivering financial or ICT services in the EU need to comply.

Banks, Investment firms

Credit Institutions, Credit rating services

Crowdfunding platforms

Data analytics, ICT third-party services, Crypto-asset providers

CUSTOMER USE CASES

What applications fall under DORA?

Information and Communication Technology Services (ICTs) under DORA include but are not limited to:

Virtual Machines, Instances, Databases, etc.

On-premises data storage

Cloud data storage

Core banking applications & systems backup

As-a-service applications (CRMs, ERPs, Analytics, etc.)

Departmental SaaS applications

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Lightweight, No Agents

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Application Aware

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Multi-tenant

Host multiple tenants and users with simple, self-service sandbox-style environments and built-in RBAC.

Security-first architecture

Meets STIG, FIPS 140-2, NIAP, ISO 27001 and Common Criteria security standards

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Six Pillars of DORA

ICT Risk Management
ICT-Related Incident Reporting
Digital Operational Resilience Testing
ICT Third-Party Risk Management
Information Sharing
ICT Risk Management for Key Third-Party Providers
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What’s New: DORA Backup and Recovery Checklist

Risk assessment
  • Develop a framework to identify and assess all ICT services  
  • Align your assessment with established frameworks  
  • Assign stakeholders to manage data protection operations and continuously monitor ICTs,  
Backup requirements
  • Schedule regular backups
  • Follow the "3-2-1 rule" and make sure backups are logically separated from the source system.
  • Ensure backups are accessible during outages or cyber threats
  • Enable immutability to protect against ransomware.
  • Implement multi-factor authentication, encryption, and network segmentation
Incident response & recovery
  • Assign recovery SLAs in proportionality with the critical nature of the application.
  • Develop and regularly update disaster recovery plans
  • Conduct periodic training and simulations to enhance staff preparedness for incident response.  
Demonstrable recovery & reporting
  • Maintain documentation and records to demonstrate compliance  
  • Leverage advanced tools for continuous monitoring and real-time reporting of backup and recovery activities
ICT Coverage

HYCU R-Cloud™: Broadest ICT coverage in data protection

Long recognizing the risk of third-party services and applications, HYCU has pioneered the protection of ICTs, no matter where they are. HYCU R-Cloud™ offers one unified platform to see, manage, and protect critical applications and data across your entire organization.

Visualize your ICTs, expose unprotected services

  • Visualize your entire data estate – applications and services across your organization
  • Expose ICTs without
    • Backup policies
    • Offsite storage
    • UI-based recovery
  • Immediately start protecting applications and visually monitor for protection and compliance

Automated, DORA-compliant backups

HYCU offers 10x more coverage than any other enterprise backup solution. Designed to automate operations and provide backup assurance, you can:

  • Assign backups in one click  
  • Rest assured with ‘Set and forget’ backups working 24/7
  • Modify backup frequencies according to proportionality  
  • Get notified of all backup activities and events

Customer controlled backups: Offsite and ransomware-proof

  • Automatically store backups in a logically separated, offsite location
  • Store data in Amazon S3, Azure Blob, Google Cloud, and other S3-compatible storage targets
  • Turn on WORM-enabled, immutable backups  
  • Store data from days to years

Demonstrable recovery & resilience testing

  • One-click recovery operations of VMs, instances, and cloud applications
  • Built-in disaster recovery, with failovers to the cloud and cross-regional recovery in the cloud
  • File and configuration level restore across as-a-service applications
  • Complete event tracking and audit logs for all backup and recovery operations
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"HYCU, Simple and Effective."

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