The DORA Implementation Playbook: A Practitioner’s Guide to Demonstrating Resilience Beyond the Deadline

The Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA) has fundamentally reshaped the European Union’s financial regulatory landscape, with its full application beginning on January 17, 2025. This regulation goes beyond traditional risk management, explicitly acknowledging that digital incidents can threaten the stability of the entire financial system. As the deadline has passed, the focus is now shifting from theoretical compliance to the practical, ongoing challenge of demonstrating resilience in a live environment. DORA implementation is a “multi-year marathon rather than a short-term compliance sprint,” and firms that embrace it are making a strategic investment in operational integrity and market trust.

Our new white paper, The DORA Implementation Playbook, serves as a practitioner’s guide to navigating this new era, outlining practical steps for achieving and proving demonstrable resilience. It moves beyond a theoretical understanding of the regulation, providing actionable guidance for firms facing the post-go-live reality. We delve into the five core pillars of DORA, with a particular focus on the most complex challenge: ICT Third-Party Risk Management. The playbook also introduces the concept of an “Evidence Locker” as a critical tool for proving your firm’s ongoing resilience to regulators and auditors.

By downloading this playbook, you will:

• Gain a clear understanding of the five core pillars of DORA and how they apply in practice.
• Learn about the post-go-live challenges and the supervisory expectations for 2025-2026, including the “show your work” imperative.
• Receive a concrete, step-by-step action plan for mastering the complex requirements of ICT Third-Party Risk Management (TPRM).
• Discover how to build a dynamic “Evidence Locker” to prove your resilience and move beyond “paper compliance”.
• Understand the importance of automating compliance processes to manage DORA’s stringent reporting timelines and data collection requirements.
• Find out why embracing DORA is a strategic move that can provide a competitive advantage and enhance market trust.