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DORA compliance consulting

Prove your operational resilience under DORA.

If resilience isn’t tested and documented, it won’t pass review. DeviQA helps fintech teams validate system survival and produce audit-ready evidence regulators expect.

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Understanding DORA and its role

DORA compliance refers to an organization’s ability to meet the requirements of the EU Digital Operational Resilience Act by establishing, operating, and validating effective controls for managing ICT risk.

DORA applies if:

DORA applies if:

The organization operates in the EU financial system, or

It provides ICT services that support critical or important functions of regulated financial entities

It requires organizations to:

It requires organizations to:

Implement ICT risk management frameworks

Detect, classify, and report ICT incidents

Conduct digital operational resilience testing

Manage third-party ICT risk

Maintain audit-ready evidence

Our solutions for your DORA compliance challenges

DeviQA helps you turn DORA from a regulatory risk into a controlled, testable engineering process.

Proving effective ICT risk management

Challenge

Over 60% of financial IT incidents are linked to weak change and risk control, not new defects.

Solution

We assess your QA and testing maturity, map risks to critical services, and validate controls through targeted testing, producing clear, regulator-ready evidence.

Incident reporting without operational proof

Challenge

Regulators consistently flag poor incident traceability and root-cause evidence as audit gaps.

Solution

We test incident scenarios end-to-end, validate response processes, and document outcomes to support accurate classification and reporting.

Untested operational resilience

Challenge

Only 1 in 3 organizations regularly test full recovery scenarios beyond basic failover.

Solution

We run scenario-based resilience testing, outages, degradation, data loss, and measure real RTO and RPO using execution data.

Third-party ICT risk and vendor dependency

Challenge

Third-party outages account for 40%+ of major service disruptions in financial services.

Solution

We provide independent QA validation of third-party dependencies, focusing on failure impact, recovery behavior, and evidence auditors expect.

Continuous compliance in a changing system

Challenge

Post-audit remediation costs are typically 2–3× higher than proactive testing.

Solution

We embed continuous compliance QA into your release cycle, keeping resilience testing, documentation, and evidence current as your platform evolves.

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Who is subject to DORA compliance?

Financial institutions

Organizations directly regulated under DORA include:

credit institutions and banks

payment institutions and electronic money institutions

investment firms and trading venues

insurance and reinsurance undertakings

asset managers and fund administrators

crypto-asset service providers (CASPs)

ICT and technology service providers

DORA extends regulatory oversight to critical third-party ICT providers, including:

cloud service providers

data hosting and infrastructure platforms

core banking and financial software vendors

managed service and outsourcing providers

The cost of ignoring DORA

Financial penalties

Fines of up to €5M or 3–12.5% of annual turnover for serious breaches.

Loss of EU market access

Regulators can suspend or restrict operations within the EU financial market.

Executive liability

Senior managers may face bans of up to 10 years for repeated or severe violations.

Revenue restrictions

Authorities may limit trading activity and seize profits linked to non-compliance.

Higher incident impact

Weak resilience increases exposure to outages, cyber incidents, and prolonged recovery.

Reputation damage

Regulatory failures erode trust, leading to lost clients and stalled partnerships.

Make sure you meet DORA requirements

Our DORA compliance consulting services

We deliver engineering-led QA and testing services designed to meet DORA’s operational resilience requirements, with measurable results and audit-ready evidence.

DORA gap assessment

For teams starting their DORA journey

We establish a clear baseline of your current QA, security, and resilience posture against DORA requirements.

What’s included:

Review of QA, security, and disaster recovery processes

Mapping of current controls to DORA expectations

Identification and prioritization of ICT risks

3–6 month remediation roadmap

Outcome: A regulator-ready view of where you stand and what must be addressed first.
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DORA gap assessment

Operational resilience testing

For teams preparing for audits and regulatory review

We validate that your systems can survive and recover from real-world failures, and document the results.

What’s included:

Disaster recovery and failover testing

Load and stress testing of critical services

Recovery and degradation scenarios

External API and third-party failure testing

Formal test reports for regulators

Outcome: Measured RTO/RPO and evidence of tested resilience.
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Operational resilience testing

Security testing under DORA

For teams strengthening ICT risk controls

We integrate security validation into your QA and delivery processes.

What’s included:

Coordination of penetration testing and vulnerability scanning

IAM, authentication, and authorization testing

API security validation

Continuous security regression testing

Outcome: Security controls validated as part of operational resilience, not isolated audits.
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Security testing under DORA

Continuous DORA compliance

For teams operating in regulated mode

We keep your compliance posture current as systems, vendors, and releases change.

What’s included:

Regular resilience and recovery testing

Ongoing security regression

Scheduled DR and failover drills

Continuous update of audit evidence

Support during regulatory reviews

Outcome: Always-on compliance with predictable cost and reduced audit risk.
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Continuous DORA compliance

Why choose DeviQA for DORA compliance

Engineering-led compliance strategy

Built by QA and reliability engineers with 15+ years in regulated systems, not consultants translating regulation into slides.

Clear, risk-prioritized remediation roadmap

We focus on top 20–30% of risks that typically drive 80% of audit findings, reducing unnecessary remediation effort.

Measured operational resilience

Recovery is validated through execution. Clients typically discover 2–4× gaps between documented and actual RTO/RPO during first resilience tests.

Independent QA validation

Vendor-neutral testing provides objective evidence regulators expect, without conflicts of interest or tool bias.

Scenario-based resilience testing

We test real failure conditions: outages, degraded capacity, and third-party failures, the scenarios behind most major financial service incidents.

Continuous compliance support

Ongoing testing reduces last-minute remediation costs, which are commonly 2–3× higher when compliance gaps are found late.

Audit-ready documentation by default

Every test produces traceable artifacts aligned with audit expectations, cutting audit preparation time by weeks, not days.

Long-term operational partnership

From assessment to continuous compliance, our model supports quarterly testing cycles and ongoing regulatory readiness, not one-off projects.

Be prepared for DORA audits with clear evidence

Our approach to DORA compliance

Our goal is simple: to make DORA compliance a predictable outcome of engineering practices, not a recurring risk.

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Risk-first, not checklist-driven

We start by identifying critical services, dependencies, and failure points. Effort is focused where operational and regulatory risk is highest.

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Test real failure scenarios

We validate resilience through controlled, scenario-based testing: outages, recovery, degradation, and third-party failures, not theoretical reviews.

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Measure, don’t assume

Recovery objectives (RTO, RPO) are measured through execution, not taken from policies or estimates.

04

Evidence by default

Every activity produces traceable, audit-ready evidence aligned with DORA expectations, clear inputs, results, and outcomes.

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Continuous, not one-off

As systems, releases, and vendors change, testing and evidence are updated. Compliance stays current without last-minute remediation.

Questions & answers

DORA compliance refers to meeting the requirements of the Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA), an EU regulation that obliges financial institutions and ICT service providers to prove they can withstand, respond to, and recover from ICT-related disruptions.

DORA EU compliance applies to:

  • Banks and credit institutions

  • Payment institutions and e-money providers

  • Investment firms

  • Insurance and reinsurance companies

  • Crypto-asset service providers

  • Critical ICT third-party providers supporting financial entities

If you provide software, cloud, or infrastructure to EU financial institutions, DORA likely affects you.

The main DORA compliance requirements are structured around five pillars:

  • ICT risk management

  • Incident reporting and response

  • Digital operational resilience testing

  • ICT third-party risk management

  • Information sharing and governance

Each pillar requires documented processes, controls, and evidence — not high-level policies.

We provide end-to-end DORA compliance consulting services, covering both assessment and execution Our services include:

  • DORA compliance gap analysis against all regulatory pillars

  • Definition of a DORA-aligned operational resilience model

  • ICT risk management process design and validation

  • Incident response, escalation, and regulatory reporting setup

  • Resilience testing strategy (including DR, BCP, and TLPT readiness)

  • ICT third-party risk assessment and vendor alignment

  • Evidence preparation for audits and regulatory reviews

We typically work in one of three models:

  • Advisory + execution support for internal compliance and IT teams

  • Embedded compliance specialists working alongside your engineers

  • Full delivery model, where we own defined DORA workstreams

Communication is direct, with clear owners, timelines, and measurable outcomes.

Your team stays involved where business context and decision-making are required. We take over the heavy lifting:

  • Analysis and control design

  • Process documentation

  • Testing coordination

  • Evidence collection

This reduces disruption while keeping accountability where regulators expect it.

We help both sides:

  • Financial institutions managing ICT vendor risk

  • SaaS and technology providers responding to DORA requirements

Timelines depend on maturity, but typically:

  • Initial DORA gap assessment: 2–4 weeks

  • Core remediation and setup: 6–12 weeks

  • Testing and audit preparation: ongoing / cyclical

Yes. We support:

  • Continuous resilience testing

  • Incident simulations and reporting drills

  • Vendor reassessments

  • Regulatory updates and DORA compliance news impact analysis