DORA: what to ship before the deadline.
A practical guide for GRC vendors and product teams shipping DORA-aligned features before the EU deadline. What DORA actually requires, where the data layer maps in, and what to deprioritise.
What DORA actually covers
DORA, the Digital Operational Resilience Act, is a regulation aimed at the financial sector’s ability to absorb ICT-related disruption. Five pillars: ICT risk management, ICT-related incident reporting, digital operational resilience testing, ICT third-party risk management, and information sharing. Each pillar has obligations that are testable, auditable, and dated.
Where the data layer maps in
RegAlytics data maps directly to two of the five pillars. ICT-related incident reporting requires firms to file structured reports against specific deadlines; the alerts corpus carries the regulator’s published reporting templates and the deadlines for each filing class. ICT third-party risk management requires firms to monitor regulator activity affecting their critical third parties; the LADI graph already encodes regulator-to-third-party relationships for the named ICT providers most relevant to EU finance.
What product teams should ship
Three features cover most customer asks. A DORA-tagged alerts view, scoped to the firm’s home jurisdiction and operational footprint. A reporting-deadline calendar, surfaced in the same UI as the alerts feed. A third-party impact filter, layering on top of the alerts feed to show which third parties are affected by recent regulator activity. All three are configurable views over the existing data layer, not new modules.
What to deprioritise
Don’t build a DORA-specific risk register. Don’t build a DORA-specific evidence vault. Don’t build a DORA-specific audit-trail system. Customers either already have these in their existing GRC stack or they’re going to buy them from a vendor focused on that surface. The DORA-shaped opportunity for most product teams is regulatory awareness, not regulatory bookkeeping.
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