DORA audit and compliance
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Accompanying financial entities towards a secure, digital future: the DORA compliance offering

Joining DORA

Since January 2025, DORA regulations have required financial entities to strengthen their digital operational resilience. At NETSYSTEM, we support you step by step in your DORA audit and compliance, with a tailor-made approach combining cybersecurity, IT risk management, governance and auditing.

Why comply with DORA?

What is DORA?

DORA (Digital Operational Resilience Act) is a detailed and comprehensive regulatory framework on digital operational resilience for financial entities.

Its aim is to ensure business continuity in the event of a major digital incident, through improved IT risk management, robust governance and clear requirements for third-party service providers.

Who is DORA for?

The DORA regulations apply to all regulated financial entities: banks, insurers, fintechs, asset management companies, investment firms, information service providers (ISPs), and so on.

What are DORA's main challenges?

The main objective is to professionalize IT security for financial entities in order to limit risks and guarantee service continuity.

Key issues :

ICT risk management

  • Digital operational resilience strategy
  • ICT risk management policy
  • Information systems security policy (including physical security, logical security, access management, data and network security … )
  • ICT asset management policy and asset inventory
  • ICT operations management policies and procedures
  • ICT continuity and disaster recovery policy and plans
  • Security and operational resilience awareness and training programs

ICT incident and cyber threat management and reporting

  • ICT incident and cyber threat classification procedure
  • Detection procedure, prevention and response to ICT incidents
  • Procedure for reporting major ICT incidents and voluntary notification of significant cyber threats
  • Procedure for reporting aggregated annual costs and losses caused by major ICT incidents
  • ICT incident communication plan

Digital operational resilience testing

  • Digital operational resilience testing program
  • Operational procedures for conducting tests
  • Procedure for resolving problems highlighted during tests and validating the implementation of remediation plans

ICT service provider risk management

  • Mapping of ICT services and functions, identification of ICT service providers
  • Policy on the use of ICT services supporting critical or important functions (provided by ICT service providers)
  • Register of information on contractual agreements relating to the use of ICT services provided by ICT service providers
  • Exit strategies and plans
What are the risks?

Non-compliance can result in financial penalties, withdrawal of approval or major reputational damage.

But beyond these sanctions, the major risk is of course to jeopardize the entity’s business in the event of a cyber attack.

How long does it take to become DORA-compliant?

This depends on your initial level of maturity. On average, full compliance takes between 6 and 12 months.

What's the difference between DORA and NIS2?

NIS2 is aimed at broader critical sectors. DORA is specifically designed for the financial sector, with a stronger operational and regulatory focus.

Our support offer for DORA compliance.

A pragmatic, tailor-made ROI approach.

Our expertise in digital transformation and cybersecurity will help you achieve DORA compliance, by fully integrating security issues into your processes. We offer tailor-made support covering :

Initial maturity diagnosis DORA

  • Requirements mapping
  • Gap assessment
01

Raising management awareness

  • Customized awareness program
02

Compliance roadmap

  • Prioritization of shares
  • Alignment on regulatory deadlines
03

Operational implementation

  • Strengthening IT governance
  • Incident management processes, reporting, DRP, etc.
04

Managing risks related to service providers

  • Review of critical contracts and dependencies
  • Adapted monitoring framework
05

Preparing for audits / controls

  • Document review
  • Certification support and dialogue with authorities
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Our approach combines technical expertise and in-depth knowledge of the specific requirements of the financial sector, to provide 360° support that enables you to navigate the complex world of DORA compliance with confidence. Together, we can build a future where digital innovation goes hand in hand with security and confidence.

Netsystem supported KERIALIS in its DORA compliance project

KERIALIS, a social protection institution dedicated to the legal and accounting professions, offers supplementary health, provident, long-term care, end-of-career and retirement benefits, as well as a range of services to support its policyholders on a day-to-day basis.

The organization wanted to improve its operational resilience by complying with DORA regulations, specific to its business sector and more generally to financial services companies.

"KERIALIS was looking for a service provider to help us comply with the DORA regulation. We chose Netsystem for their speed in getting in touch with us, the quality of their exchanges and the speed of their response. NETSYSTEM is an agile structure with a strong capacity to adapt and experienced CISOs, particularly on the cybersecurity aspects linked to DORA."

Netsystem is PASSI qualified

PASSI qualification is issued by the French Information Systems Security Agency (ANSSI).

It is aimed at trusted service providers who carry out organizational and physical security audits, as well as audits of technical scopes, on their own behalf or on behalf of their customers.

It is a real guarantee of quality and expertise for organizations looking for a cybersecurity consultancy firm to carry out an audit of their structure.

Why choose Netsystem?

  • Confirmed regulatory expertise (DORA, NIS2, RGPD, ISO 27001)
  • Experience of the financial sector and its constraints
  • Operational and strategic support
  • Certified consultants, proven methodologies
  • Ongoing regulatory watch and adaptation to changes

DORA is a tremendous opportunity for financial entities to upgrade their cybersecurity and ensure the resilience of their organization. This text is not limited to a simple compliance framework: it imposes a real transformation in IT governance, critical service provider management, incident preparedness and business continuity. At NETSYSTEM, we support our customers not only in meeting the requirements of the regulation, but above all in deriving structural benefit from it. Our approach is based on a strategic vision, tried and tested methods, and an ability to make technical issues tangible for business and regulatory departments. For us, DORA is an opportunity to reinforce digital confidence throughout the financial ecosystem. And that's precisely our role: to build more robust, more transparent and more resilient organizations.

Talk to a DORA expert

To find out more about our DORA compliance services, please contact us. We’re here to help you secure your digital journey and turn cybersecurity challenges into real growth opportunities.

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