What is
DORA?

DORA (the Digital Operational Resilience Act) is the EU regulation requiring financial institutions to demonstrate they can withstand, respond to, and recover from ICT-related disruptions. It establishes harmonised requirements across ICT risk management, incident reporting, operational resilience testing, and the oversight of critical ICT third-party providers.

The Deadline's Passed. Now the Real Work Begins.

The January 2025 deadline marked the start of enforcement, not the end of the journey. Regulators are now actively reviewing returns, issuing queries, and preparing for the 2026 enforcement cycle. Institutions still relying on spreadsheets and consultants are feeling the cost. Those that built sustainable infrastructure are pulling ahead.

Non-compliance can result in fines of up to 1% of average daily turnover, before factoring in operational, reputational, and supervisory consequences.

DORA FAQs
DORA Regulations Scope

How Brooklyn Supports DORA Compliance

 

Brooklyn gives compliance teams a live, real-time view of their DORA posture. No manual updates. No version control headaches. From ICT third-party registers to contractual gap analysis, Brooklyn gives financial services teams the clarity, structure, and confidence to meet DORA requirements every cycle.

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Platform capabilities

DORA Compliance, Built into Brooklyn

Real-Time Compliance Dashboard

A continuously updated view of your compliance posture across all reporting entities. Risk levels, supplier statuses, and data completeness in one place.

Intelligent Data Formatting

Auto-population of key fields, country code integration, and structured outputs in the exact format required for a regulatory upload. Your digital register meets the standard right out of the box.

Missing Data Identification

Brooklyn flags exactly what still needs to be completed so nothing slips through. Critical in multi-entity environments where gaps multiply quickly.

DORA Register of Information

One record managed by the owning entity, filtered consistently across every entity that uses it. One source of truth, always.

AI Contract Analysis

Brooklyn’s AI identifies required and missing clauses at scale. Gaps trigger automatic risk alerts and supplier workflows. Teams can query contracts instantly using Ask Brooklyn.

Audit-Ready Export

Export a clean, regulator-ready report in the format your auditor needs, whenever they need it. A built-in user guide walks your team through each step.


Always Digitally Fit for Audit

Brooklyn keeps your DORA register live, accurate, and ready for the next audit, never rebuilt from scratch each cycle. By bringing governance, risk and compliance (GRC) into one continuously validated system, your registers, contracts, and reporting stay connected. No annual scramble and no conflicting versions across entities, just a digital register that stays submission-ready every day of the year. That is what it means to be Always Digitally Fit for Audit.

DORA Compliance Analytics

Built for the 2026 Enforcement Cycle

The 2026 reporting cycle will bring deeper scrutiny and less tolerance for fragmented, manual processes. The institutions best positioned are those that have moved from compliance as a project to compliance as a capability.

Brooklyn supports the full lifecycle: structure your data model, consolidate fragmented registers, validate continuously against DORA compliance requirements, generate regulator-ready reports at a click, and maintain data accuracy as standard through automated workflows.

DORA Compliance Reporting

From 9 Months to 6 Weeks

A leading European Financial Services Group with over 8 regulated entities replaced their entire first-year DORA process with Brooklyn.

Before Brooklyn
With Brooklyn
Dedicated external consultancy required
A 3-person internal team handled everything
Separate data formatting provider needed
Data structured and formatted automatically within Brooklyn
8 register owners manually completing individual spreadsheets
All ICT register data consolidated and validated in one platform
Months of effort across multiple teams and providers
Completed in 6 Weeks, what previously took 9 Months
The same intergroup contract reported with different values across entities
One record, managed by the owning entity, consistent across all entities
Point-in-time snapshots requiring repeated effort each cycle
Register maintained on a rolling basis – Always Digitally-fit-for-audit

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Brooklyn gives compliance teams in financial services a single, structured, intelligent platform to manage DORA end to end.

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What are the 5 pillars of DORA regulation?

DORA is built around five interconnected pillars: ICT Risk Management, ICT-Related Incident Reporting, Digital Operational Resilience Testing, ICT Third-Party Risk Management, and Information Sharing.

Each targets a different dimension of operational resilience. From how you govern internal ICT risk, to how you test your defences, report incidents, and oversee the third parties your business depends on. A gap in one creates exposure across the others.

Who must comply with DORA?

DORA applies to a broad range of entities in or serving the EU financial sector including credit institutions, payment institutions, investment firms, crypto-asset service providers, data reporting services, and ICT third-party providers such as cloud and managed service providers.

If you provide technology services to regulated financial institutions in the EU, DORA likely reaches you even if you’re not a financial firm yourself.

What does DORA cover?

DORA covers the full lifecycle of ICT risk in financial services, ICT risk management frameworks, third-party oversight, operational resilience testing, major incident reporting, and information sharing on cyber threats. It also introduces direct regulatory oversight for ICT providers deemed critical at EU level.

How does DORA differ from EBA Outsourcing Regulation?

DORA goes significantly further than the EBA Outsourcing Guidelines  and supersedes them for in-scope entities. The EBA Guidelines focused on outsourcing arrangements and allowed some flexibility in national implementation. DORA is an EU Regulation, applying directly and uniformly across all member states.

It also extends beyond traditional outsourcing to cover all ICT third-party dependencies, introduces mandatory contractual provisions, and creates a new EU-level oversight regime for critical providers. If your framework was built around EBA Outsourcing compliance, it’s a foundation,  but it’s not enough for DORA.

The Brooklyn Platform

Supplier Relationship Management (SRM)
360° overview of your supply chain, segmented into critical and strategic suppliers for full visibility.
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AI Contract Analysis
Extract & Identify required clauses within your supplier contracts, fully audited highlighting those that are compliant and those that have gaps.
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Third Party Risk Management
Full visibility of third party risk, capture in real-time, with full audit log and auto-step triggers to be two steps ahead of the regulations
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Goverance, Risk & Compliance (GRC)
Automate your GRC solutions and eliminate value leakage with a unified system for GRC
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