The EU’s Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA) has just turned a year old. This regulation represented a fundamental shift in how the financial sector manages ICT risk, moving beyond traditional compliance to demand continuous, demonstrable digital operational resilience.

A year on, the focus has changed. Organizations can no longer just avoid cyber incidents. They need to prove they can withstand, respond to, and recover from disruptions quickly and effectively.

It’s become increasingly clear that organizations subject to DORA need a comprehensive cyber exposure management platform. Outpost24’s suite of solutions meets DORA’s core requirements, transforming regulatory risk into measurable, resilient security practices.

Meeting DORA’s core requirements

Risk-based vulnerability management (RBVM): Prioritize what matters now

DORA mandates a robust ICT risk management framework with continuous monitoring and proactive mitigation. Traditional vulnerability management is too slow and passive for today’s DORA requirements.

Outpost24’s RBVM shifts the focus from sheer volume to business risk. It uses real-world threat intelligence and asset criticality to dynamically score risks.

DORA requirement met (ICT risk management): Teams can fix the issues most likely to cause a major ICT-related incident – the kind DORA mandates you report quickly. By quantifying risk based on business impact, RBVM provides the documented evidence needed for DORA governance requirements.

Attack surface management (ASM): Complete visibility

DORA requires entities to identify, assess, and manage risks across their entire ICT estate, including third-party service providers.

Outpost24’s EASM provides continuous, automated discovery of all internet-facing assets, uncovering shadow IT and unknown applications. This is your foundational discovery, knowing what you own.

DORA requirement met (ICT and third-party risk management): An EASM platform lets you proactively assess and monitor the cyber posture of your critical third parties, helping you maintain the resilience of your entire supply chain.

Digital risk protection and threat intelligence: Actionable context

DORA requires proactive security based on understanding the active threat landscape. Outpost24’s CompassDRP provides early warnings and actionable context by monitoring the clear, deep, and dark web.

DORA requirement met (information sharing and incident management): This intelligence directly informs your incident response planning by providing indicators of compromise (IoCs) and context on threat actor tactics – crucial for timely incident classification and reporting.

PTaaS and offensive security: Verified resilience

Article 24 of DORA mandates a comprehensive digital operational resilience testing program, including advanced testing like threat-led penetration testing (TLPT).

Outpost24’s PTaaS and offensive security services offer the mechanism to prove resilience.

DORA requirement met (resilience testing): PTaaS provides continuous manual testing verified by certified security experts. Red teaming and TLPT services simulate real-world attacks to test your actual detection, response, and recovery capabilities, providing the verifiable evidence regulators require.

Outpost24: Your journey from data to confidence for DORA compliance

Meeting DORA’s demands is a structured journey. The core story, “Your journey from data to confidence,” is validated by the platform’s strengths and confirmed by our recognition in the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Exposure Assessment Platforms. This recognition ensures our solution provides the confidence needed to face DORA’s scrutiny and maintain continuous operational resilience.

Foundational discovery (visibility)

Gartner’s inclusion confirms our strong foundation in asset discovery. We’re recognized for helping customers establish that crucial first step: knowing what you own. For DORA, this provides the mandated comprehensive inventory of all ICT assets.

Prioritization (unified context and compliance leadership)

This is where our differentiated strengths truly shine, helping you implement DORA’s risk-based approach effectively:

• Native risk protection: Recognition for native DRPS and threat intelligence ensures external threats are immediately factored into your RBVM. This natively unified context lets you filter the noise, find critical threats, and know what to fix first.
• Compliance leader: Our extensive out-of-the-box reporting and PCI-certified ASV status save customers weeks on audits. This capability directly meets DORA’s stringent governance requirements by providing clear, audit-ready documentation instantly—essential for showing continuous compliance.

Verified assurance (full platform and expert validation)

This is the ultimate DORA outcome: proving your resilience through rigorous testing.

Built-in validation (PTaaS): Outpost24 is one of the only platforms noted for its built-in PTaaS solution. This integration creates a closed-loop validation process of finding, validating, fixing, and retesting. It’s how you achieve that ultimate outcome: confidently declaring “We are secure” and providing the verified evidence DORA requires for your digital operational resilience testing program.

By unifying all stages of your exposure management (from initial discovery through risk intelligence to expert confirmation) Outpost24 provides the robust, evidence-backed framework necessary to achieve and sustain DORA operational resilience. Want to discuss your DORA requirements? Reach out for a one-on-one chat with an expert.