Digital Trust Professional® (DTP®) DORA Foundation Certificate

Course Outline

The Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA) is an EU regulation that entered into force on 16 January 2023 and will apply as of 17 January 2025.

It aims at strengthening the IT security of financial entities such as banks, insurance companies and investment firms and making sure that the financial sector in Europe is able to stay resilient in the event of a severe operational disruption. DORA brings harmonisation of the rules relating to operational resilience for the financial sector applying to 20 different types of financial entities and their ICT third-party service providers.

In order to achieve a high common level of digital operational resilience, the EU Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA) Regulation lays down uniform requirements concerning the security of network and information systems supporting the business processes of financial entities as follows:

(a) requirements applicable to financial entities in relation to:

• information and communication technology…