DORA Year Two: Can Your SOC Actually See the Attack?
As DORA enforcement matures, EU regulators are moving beyond governance checklists to test whether financial-sector SOCs can genuinely detect attacks—a shift that turns detection engineering into a compliance obligation.
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When the Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA) became enforceable across the European Union in January 2025, it triggered an administrative sprint. Financial entities spent the first year establishing risk governance, assessing third-party service providers, updating contract clauses, and documenting incident escalation workflows.
Now in its second year, the harder part of DORA is
Editorial Analysis
Financial entities that treated DORA year one as a documentation exercise now face supervisory scrutiny of actual detection and response capabilities, raising remediation urgency.
Run a tabletop exercise simulating a DORA supervisory detection test and remediate any identified SOC blind spots.
EU regulators are shifting DORA scrutiny from policy documents to live SOC detection proof—boards should ensure adequate investment in operational resilience testing.
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