CHAPTER 2: AN OVERALL APPROACH TO COMPLIANCE

Fundamentally, DORA is about risk management. While you can examine each of the ‘pillars’ independently, they all come back to this core activity – where you manage your ICT suppliers, you do so on the basis of risk; the way you prepare for incident response is, again, on the basis of risk; and so on.

The finance sector already understands risk – this is a core competence. Furthermore, ICT is not new to the sector, and organisations within it typically understand the risk environment. It is, after all, a rare day that we hear of a bank or credit institution being hit by a major cyber attack.

To build on this, many of DORA’s requirements simply reiterate existing expectations from regulators and requirements ...

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