DORA Compliance Checklist | UpGuard

This article outlines the EU Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA), effective January 17, 2025, for financial entities and critical ICT providers, detailing scope, penalties, and the five pillars—ICT risk management, incident reporting, threat-led penetration testing (TLPT), third-party risk management, and cyber threat intelligence sharing—along with a practical checklist for achieving compliance, including scoping, gap analysis, remediation planning, identifying critical providers, TLPT cadence, incident response planning, continuous monitoring, and board responsibilities.