Digital Operational Resilience Act
DORA readiness assessment
Know which operational-resilience obligations are evidenced before supervisory scrutiny exposes the gaps.
An article-level requirement library (37) across DORA's five resilience pillars.
37 article-level requirement entries · versioned & change-controlled
Who it’s for
Financial entities and their critical ICT third-party providers in scope for the EU Digital Operational Resilience Act.
What readiness means for DORA
For DORA, readiness means each article-level requirement across the five pillars — ICT risk management, incident reporting, resilience testing, third-party risk and information sharing — is evidenced.
How Netallion handles it
Your DORA readiness journey
- 1
Scope entity & pillars
Confirm your standing — financial entity or critical ICT third-party provider — and scope the article-level requirements across the five pillars that apply to you.
- 2
Map evidence to requirements
Attach the ICT risk framework, incident procedures, test results and the third-party register to the article-level requirements they support, with ownership and review dates.
- 3
Assess evidence
Each requirement is assessed for whether the evidence demonstrates it in operation — a resilience test actually run, an incident classified and reported on the regulatory timeline — not merely a documented intention.
- 4
Surface blockers
Requirements with missing or stale evidence — a critical provider with no exit strategy, a test never performed — become explicit, ranked blockers.
- 5
Review & finalise
An authorised assessor reviews the determinations and pins a readiness conclusion; DORA is supervised by the competent authority, so there is no certification for Netallion to issue.
The control library
What the DORA library gives you
An article-level requirement library (37) across DORA's five resilience pillars.
A curated, versioned catalogue of this framework’s 37 article-level requirement entries — with provenance — to collect, own, organise and track the currency of your evidence against.
From the field
Common DORA blockers we find
Where evidence most often falls short — surfaced explicitly, not averaged away.
- A third-party register exists but critical ICT providers lack documented exit strategies, so concentration risk has no mitigation.
- Incident procedures are written but there is no evidence a major ICT incident was classified and reported within the regulatory timeline.
- A testing programme is defined but the higher-tier scenario tests it commits to have never been executed.
- The register of information omits the subcontracting chain, so a fourth-party dependency is invisible.
Evidence
The evidence you'll bring
You upload and own your evidence; Netallion organises it and tracks ownership and expiry. For this framework it typically spans:
ICT risk management
- ICT risk-management framework
- asset & dependency mapping
- protection & prevention controls
- business-continuity & response policies
Incident management
- ICT-incident classification criteria
- major-incident register
- regulatory reporting records & timelines
- root-cause analyses
Resilience testing
- testing programme & schedule
- vulnerability assessments & scans
- scenario-based tests
- threat-led penetration testing scope (where applicable)
Third-party ICT
- register of information (contracts)
- concentration-risk analysis
- exit strategies for critical providers
- subcontracting-chain records
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Prepare your DORA evidence
Assess your DORA evidence with Netallion
There’s no self-serve kit for DORA yet. On an assessed engagement, Netallion scopes the requirements, organises your evidence, and determines readiness with explicit blockers.
From evidence to a conclusion
How readiness is reached
The kit helps you prepare. Netallion organises the evidence, assesses whether it's sufficient, and reaches a traceable readiness conclusion.
- 1Scope
The applicable requirement set for your framework and scope.
- 2Applicable requirements
A fixed denominator — every in-scope requirement counts.
- 3Evidence
You attach and own evidence; ownership and expiry are tracked.
- 4Evidence assessment
The evidence is read against each requirement for sufficiency.
- 5Determination
A requirement-level verdict with byte-verified citations.
- 6Blocker
Negative findings surface as explicit blockers, not averages.
- 7Remediation
Track the fix; reassessment — not a checkbox — resolves it.
- 8Review (R0–R3)
Controlled human review with recorded provenance.
- 9Finalisation
A signed, scope-pinned readiness conclusion.
- 10Report / export
Readiness report, evidence index, SoA, audit ZIP + SHA-256.
- 11Lifecycle & reassessment
Evidence expires/changes → affected requirements reopen.
Schematic of the assurance workflow. Evidence collection and management are available today; the assessment, determination, review and finalisation stages are the System-B assurance engine.
What you get out
- Requirement-level readiness across all 37 DORA article-level requirements
- results grouped by the five resilience pillars
- explicit blocker list with reasons
- evidence index + audit ZIP with SHA-256 manifest
FAQ
DORA readiness — common questions
Is DORA something you get certified in?
No. DORA compliance is supervised by the relevant financial-services competent authority; there is no DORA certification. Netallion assesses your readiness against its requirements.
Does Netallion cover third-party ICT risk?
Yes — the third-party-risk pillar is part of the 37 article-level requirements assessed, including register completeness and exit-strategy evidence.
Who is DORA for?
Banks, insurers, investment firms, crypto-asset service providers and other financial entities, plus their critical ICT providers.
Related
Cross-framework leverage
Evidence you assemble for one framework often supports another. Commonly paired with:
Readiness, not certification. Netallion provides evidence assurance and readiness assessment; it does not issue or guarantee any formal outcome. Where a framework has a formal certification, attestation, authorisation or conformity-assessment scheme, that outcome remains with the appropriately authorised third party or authority. DORA is supervised by the relevant financial-services competent authority; there is no DORA certification Netallion could issue. Where the boundary sits.
See what your DORA evidence proves
See how Netallion assesses whether your evidence is sufficient — with explicit blockers and a traceable readiness conclusion.