DORA Compliance Is Not a Checkbox

Right now a lot of firms think they are "DORA compliant" because they produced a policy pack.

That is not what regulators are testing.

DORA is operational resilience. Not documentation resilience.

Most compliance platforms still work like this: You complete a questionnaire, upload policies, export a report, and wait for an audit.

But DORA requires you to run five things every day:

• ICT risk management
• Incident classification and reporting
• Third-party oversight
• Resilience testing
• Ongoing monitoring

The Documentation Gap

The gap is obvious: firms have documentation, they do not have a working programme.

This is why organisations end up with spreadsheets for suppliers, a ticketing system for incidents, a separate ISMS, consultants managing testing, and no single view of DORA status.

When a regulator asks, "show me your operational resilience", they are really asking: Can you prove control, or only describe it?

What Operational DORA Looks Like

We built DORA functionality in RateYourCyber to solve exactly that problem.

Instead of producing DORA paperwork, the platform runs the DORA processes:

A mapped gap assessment. Not a generic questionnaire. Questions mapped directly to DORA articles and requirements. For regulated institutions, ICT providers, and for extreme cases when they are both the same entity.

A live ICT third-party register. Article 28 requires you to maintain a register of all ICT third-party service providers. Not a spreadsheet. A database with criticality classification, contractual tracking, and direct links to your third-party risk assessments.

DORA incident classification and reporting. Not a generic incident log. DORA-specific incident classification, major incident identification, and regulatory reporting preparation built into your workflow.

An ISO 27001 ISMS aligned to DORA. Proving active risk management. Evidence library, asset register, incident log, non-conformance tracking, change management, competency matrix. Everything auditable.

A dashboard showing real compliance position. See exactly where you stand across all DORA pillars. Coverage percentage. Implementation maturity. Control gaps. By domain. One view.

Why This Matters in 2026

DORA became applicable in January 2025. Financial entities and their critical ICT providers are now under regulatory scrutiny.

The important part is not the features. It is the outcome.

With RateYourCyber you can show a regulator your full DORA posture in minutes, with evidence, traceability, and an audit trail from risk to control to incident.

DORA is no longer about whether you have a framework. It is whether your framework is operational.

And that is where most firms are going to struggle in 2026.