DORA Readiness & Digital Operational Resilience
Prepare your organization for the EU Digital Operational Resilience Act – without over-complicating day-to-day operations.
Beezy helps financial institutions and ICT providers translate DORA requirements into practical architecture, processes, and tooling that stand up to audits, incidents, and real-world stress.
What is DORA – and why it matters
The Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA, Regulation EU 2022/2554) sets an EU-wide framework for how financial entities and their ICT providers must manage ICT risks, cyber incidents, and operational resilience.
Instead of "best-effort" security, DORA requires you to demonstrate that:
you can withstand, respond to, and recover from ICT-related incidents
you manage, monitor, and test ICT risks in a structured way
you govern third-party ICT providers and concentration risk
you can document and explain all of this to supervisors and auditors
Beezy helps you move from abstract legal text to concrete, implementable practice.
Who we work with
We support both regulated entities and their key ICT partners, including:
Financial institutions
Banks, payment institutions, and e-money institutions
Investment firms
Trading venues, fund managers, and insurers
FinTech companies
Providing critical services to the financial sector
ICT providers
Cloud service providers falling under DORA third-party scope
Whether you're starting from scratch or already have a mature ICT risk management framework, we tailor our approach to your size, complexity, and supervisory expectations.
Our DORA Services
Gap Analysis & Roadmap
We start with a targeted gap analysis of your current state versus DORA's five main pillars:
- ICT risk management and governance
- ICT-related incident reporting and management
- Digital operational resilience testing
- ICT third-party risk and outsourcing
- Information sharing and internal reporting
You receive:
- a clear heatmap of gaps and overlaps
- a 6–18 month roadmap with priorities, milestones, and quick wins
- a view of where existing frameworks (e.g. ISO, NIS2) already help
Policies, Processes, and Documentation
We help you design and document the governance, risk, and control processes DORA expects – in language your teams can actually use.
Typical outputs include:
- ICT risk management framework and roles
- Incident management and crisis playbooks
- Business continuity and disaster recovery procedures
- Testing and exercise plans
- Registers of critical functions and third-party ICT providers
All documents are delivered in your internal style and ready to use in audits and regulatory conversations, not just filed away.
Technology & Operational Implementation
Together with your IT and security teams, we select and implement the technical capabilities needed to support DORA:
- monitoring, logging, and alerting for critical ICT services
- incident management tooling and workflows
- backup, restore, and failover mechanisms
- resilience testing and penetration test support
- reporting and metrics for management and regulators
Where possible, we build on what you already have to minimize cost and change risk.
Training & Simulation Exercises
Regulators expect more than documents – they expect people to know their roles.
We run:
- management briefings – what DORA practically means for your board and C-suite
- team workshops – for IT, security, operations, and business owners
- simulation exercises – realistic incident and crisis drills to test readiness before an audit or actual major incident
The result: your teams are not just "on-paper" compliant, but trained and confident.
Ongoing Support & Health Checks
DORA is not a one-off project. We offer:
- periodic health checks of your ICT risk posture
- support preparing for audits and supervisory reviews
- input into RFPs and contracts with DORA-relevant ICT providers
- guidance aligning DORA with NIS2, ISO 27001, and internal standards
You decide the level of engagement: from a one-off project to continuous advisory.
What you get with Beezy
Working with Beezy on DORA means:
Clarity, not jargon
we explain what matters and why, in plain language
Practicality
we design processes and controls your teams can actually operate
Tech depth
strong background in AI, automation, DevOps, and cloud infrastructure
Audit-ready outputs
documents, registers, and evidence you can put in front of auditors and supervisors
Our goal is simple: make you DORA-ready in substance, not just slide decks.
Engagement at a glance
A typical engagement might look like:
Kick-off and scoping (1–2 weeks)
clarify scope, entities, critical services, key stakeholders
Gap analysis and interviews (2–6 weeks)
document review, workshops, initial heatmap
Roadmap and design (4–8 weeks)
target state, policies, processes, tooling concepts
Implementation support (ongoing)
documentation, configuration, testing, training
Review and handover
final report, metrics, next steps plan
The exact shape depends on your size, complexity, and time pressure.
Important Note (Disclaimer)
Beezy provides technical and organizational implementation support for DORA. We do not provide legal advice and always recommend aligning final decisions with your internal legal and compliance teams or external legal counsel.
Ready to start your DORA journey?
Let's talk about how we can help your organization achieve real digital operational resilience.