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Beyond compliance: Navigating tomorrow’s risks in UK Finance

For CISOs, CIOs, Heads of Security, and IT Risk Leaders in UK Finance, elevate operational resilience and governance ahead of evolving EU regulatory expectations.

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Critical Requirements: What Financial Institutions Must Do Next

Extended Incident Governance

If you’re a CEO, Board Director, Risk Committee Chair or CISO: Embed cyber resilience in your governance charter and run regular board-level DORA scenarios, ensuring breach readiness is real—not theoretical.

Vendor Ecosystem Resilience

Heads of IT Risk, Vendor Managers: Integrate DORA into all third-party SLAs and require operational continuity/exit plans for key ICT partners.

Threat Intelligence Response

Security & SOC Leaders: Scale intelligence sharing and automate playbooks to ensure incidents are managed faster than regulatory thresholds—and never in isolation.

Operationalizing Resilience

CIOs, GRC Directors: Tie board reports and KPIs (e.g., MTTR, vendor scorecards) directly to broader frameworks: ISO27001, CIS, NIST – and regulations such as DORA. Demonstrate quantifiable progress in every audit cycle

Industry feedback underscores DORA as a strategic inflection point

What your peers are saying

CISO, UK Bank | DORA | Board-level focus

Our board asks about DORA at every quarterly review—sector benchmarks are now a boardroom topic

Director of IT Governance, Insurance | MAP | Faster investment wins

Mapping DORA to our existing frameworks is the fastest way to secure investment in resilience upgrades.

EDGE | Transform with resilience

DORA marks a transformative juncture for financial institutions aimed at building digital resilience and safeguarding operations throughout the EU’s financial sector.

TRUST | Beyond compliance goals

With enforcement beginning in 2025, DORA establishes a unified framework to strengthen the sector’s resilience—not just for compliance, but to foster trust, business continuity, and customer confidence in an interconnected financial ecosystem

The Five Core Pillars of DORA

  • ICT Risk Management: CISOs: Map digital risks, set controls, and lead board conversations on evolving threats.
  • ICT-Related Incident Reporting: Heads of Security: Ensure every incident is detected, escalated, and reported within mandated timeframes.
  • Digital Operational Resilience Testing: Security Architects: Run DORA-aligned drills; guarantee true business continuity in crisis. Regular testing of ICT systems, including threat-led penetration testing.
  • Third-Party Risk Management: GRC & Vendor Leaders: Require DORA alignment for all ICT suppliers and partners.
  • Information Sharing: Security and Applications Heads: Build threat-sharing alliances, speed response, strengthen market reputation.
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