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Embed DORA sustainably across your organisation and IT landscape

DORA has been part of day-to-day regulatory practice since 2025. Fincon Reply helps financial institutions close remaining gaps effectively and embed DORA compliance sustainably.

DORA compliance is an ongoing management responsibility

Since the DORA requirements became applicable, financial institutions have implemented extensive measures to strengthen their digital operational resilience. However, following the completion of many initial DORA projects, it is becoming clear that business, organisational or technical gaps remain and that existing policies are not always fully embedded in day-to-day operations.

At the same time, initial audit findings provide important insight into where institutions need to improve. A robust understanding of the current level of maturity is therefore required – together with the ability to address identified gaps pragmatically and reliably.

Identify outstanding DORA issues. Determine the necessary action. Ensure implementation.

From gap analysis to implementation

Our service package covers the key areas requiring action under DORA – from targeted check-ups to business and technical implementation. The approach is tailored to your individual level of maturity and specific support needs. This gives you precisely the expertise required for your next regulatory steps.

Check-up

  • Structurally assess DORA maturity

  • Identify gaps in regulations and implementation

  • Highlight need for action before external audits

IKT - Risk Management Framework

  • We adapt your existing written order (strategies, guidelines, and policies, processes)

  • We ensure a DORA-compliant role model

  • We take care of the selection, implementation, and maintenance of the necessary ICT tools

  • We adjust your monitoring and reporting

IKT Asset Management

  • Clean setup of your information network considering horizontal and vertical dependencies, including processes and physical entities

  • Ensuring the documentation of the protection needs management, also regarding the inheritance logic

  • Integration with ICT third-party service management

Waste management services

  • Classification (support for critical and important functions, ICT third-party service provider characteristics

  • Risk analysis also with regard to subcontractors

  • Contract analysis

  • Information register

  • Exit strategies

Incident Management

  • Create and apply a rating scheme for security incidents

  • Implement DORA-compliant security incident processes including reporting requirements

  • Implement incident detection

  • Develop incident response plans

Emergency Management

  • Review and adjust the IKT business continuity guidelines

  • Support the BIA implementation

  • Create IKT business continuity plans

  • Test business continuity plans

Compliance as a Service / IT Project Management

  • Requirements management considering ICT resilience requirements

  • Approval and transition into IT projects

  • Testing and test automation

  • Project management, change process, consideration of service requests and IDV implementations

I AM

  • Creation of user permission policies considering requirements for technical users

  • Development of a segregation of duties matrix

  • Creation of user permission concepts

  • Definition of processes for the establishment, modification, and deletion of permissions

  • Definition of recertification processes and support in their implementation

  • Implementation of methods to prevent circumvention strategies (password protection, strong authentication)

Your benefit from a
structured MaRisk implementation

Our modules create a secure foundation for MaRisk projects that adequately implement regulatory requirements while also realizing savings and efficiency potentials. Instead of addressing individual requirements in isolation, we consider processes, roles, reporting, and risk management in context. This results in a cohesive implementation that is technically robust, organizationally compatible, and verifiably documented.

For institutions, this means specifically:

Transparency

Clarity about the actual DORA maturity level and relevant areas of action

Test reliability

Robust structures and evidence for internal and external audits

Implementation power

Regulatory requirements are effectively implemented in organization, processes, and IT

Efficiency

Automation and AI reduce manual efforts and relieve resources

Get ready for DORA certification.

Fincon Reply

Fincon Reply is a business and IT consulting company with a focus on the financial services industry. We advise banks, the Sparkasse Finance Group, the Genossenschaftliche FinanzGruppe and insurance companies as well as their suppliers on their digital transformation. Core banking systems, insurance systems and their system landscapes are our areas of expertise. From the individual commissioning of experts to customized project teams and ready-to-use solutions - we provide you with everything you need from a single source.