DORA Readiness & ICT Risk | Accredify Global

Understanding everything about DORA Readiness & ICT Risk

Digital Operational Resilience is now a board-level priority—especially for financial entities and technology providers supporting them. DORA Readiness & ICT Risk services help organizations build strong controls to prevent, respond to, recover from, and learn from ICT disruptions such as cyberattacks, outages, third-party failures, and operational incidents.

What is DORA Readiness & ICT Risk?

DORA Readiness is a structured program to assess and strengthen an organization’s ICT risk management capabilities in line with DORA expectations. It includes governance, policies, operational controls, monitoring, incident handling, resilience testing, and oversight of third-party ICT providers.

ICT Risk Management focuses on identifying technology risks (cyber, availability, integrity, confidentiality), implementing protective controls, and ensuring continuity of critical services under disruption.

Why is DORA Readiness & ICT Risk Important?

ICT incidents can cause service downtime, financial loss, regulatory exposure, and reputational damage. DORA readiness improves resilience by defining clear responsibilities, measurable controls, and repeatable response processes.

Regulatory Readiness - Align governance, evidence, and operational controls to support DORA-oriented compliance expectations.

Operational Resilience - Reduce downtime with structured continuity, recovery, and testing practices.

Security & Risk Reduction - Strengthen cyber controls, detection, response, and vulnerability management across critical services.

• ✔ Improve ICT risk governance and accountability.
• ✔ Strengthen incident response, reporting, and recovery timelines.
• ✔ Improve monitoring, logging, and threat detection.
• ✔ Reduce third-party ICT risks with vendor oversight and controls.
• ✔ Build confidence for customers, auditors, and regulators.

Key Modules of DORA Readiness & ICT Risk

1. ICT Risk Governance & Framework

• ✔ ICT risk policies, roles & responsibilities
• ✔ Risk appetite, controls mapping & evidence readiness
• ✔ Metrics (KRIs/KPIs) and reporting to management

2. ICT Security Controls & Monitoring

• ✔ Access control, hardening, vulnerability management
• ✔ Logging, monitoring, alerting & detection
• ✔ Secure configuration & change control practices

3. ICT Incident Management & Reporting

• ✔ Incident response plan, playbooks & escalation
• ✔ Classification, root cause analysis and corrective actions
• ✔ Evidence, timelines and reporting readiness

4. Digital Operational Resilience Testing

• ✔ Backup/restore validation and recovery testing
• ✔ Tabletop exercises and scenario-based drills
• ✔ Pen testing / resilience assessments (as applicable)

5. Third-Party ICT Risk Management

• ✔ Vendor due diligence and contract controls
• ✔ Critical supplier identification and monitoring
• ✔ Ongoing assessment, SLAs and exit strategy planning