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Digital Operational Resilience

What is Digital Operational Resilience?

An organization's ability to build, assure, and review its technological operational integrity against ICT-related disruptions.

Business Continuity

Each of these is named in at least one of the same controls as digital operational resilience. The number is how many controls name both.

What the standards actually require on digital operational resilience

Requirements naming digital operational resilience across 3 standards, quoted from the control text.

DORA4 controls

Financial entities other than microenterprises set up, keep and periodically review a robust, comprehensive programme of digital operational resilience testing within the ICT risk management framework, applied proportionately under Article 4(2), to assess inci...

DORA-Art.24 · General requirements for the performance of digital operational resilience testing →

Entities under Article 16(1) must document and implement an ICT project management procedure covering projects from initiation to closure with defined roles, and an ICT change management procedure ensuring every change to ICT systems is recorded, tested, asses...

dora-rts-on-ict-risk-management-framework-commission-delegated-regulation-eu-2024-1774::38 · Article 38: ICT project and change management (simplified framework) →

Non-binding VARA guidance on detection and response (behavioural and rule-based transaction monitoring with real-time alerts, internal user and privileged activity monitoring, enhanced monitoring of developer and signing systems, rapid tactical hardening, fore...

uae-virtual-asset-regulatory-authority-vara-regulations::TI-S1.C · Technology and Information Rulebook Schedule 1 (guidance): Detection, customer asset protection and operational resilience testing →

Questions people ask about digital operational resilience

What is Digital Operational Resilience?
An organization's ability to build, assure, and review its technological operational integrity against ICT-related disruptions.
Why is Digital Operational Resilience important for compliance?
Digital Operational Resilience is a key concept in Business Continuity. Understanding digital operational resilience helps organizations meet regulatory requirements, reduce risk, and demonstrate due diligence during audits. Our compliance platform maps 1,016 frameworks with 316K cross-framework control mappings.
Which compliance frameworks address Digital Operational Resilience?
Digital Operational Resilience appears in the requirement text of DORA, DORA RTS on ICT Risk Management Framework (Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2024/1774), UAE Virtual Asset Regulatory Authority (VARA) Regulations. Across these standards we have identified 7 controls that name it directly, each linked to the control text on the compliance platform.
Where can I learn more about Digital Operational Resilience?
Explore our compliance framework pages to see how digital operational resilience applies across different standards and regulations. Our implementation guides provide step-by-step guidance, and the compliance platform offers AI-powered analysis of how this concept maps across 1,016 frameworks.

See how Digital Operational Resilience applies across compliance frameworks

Our platform maps 1,016 frameworks with 316K cross-framework control mappings. Explore how this concept is addressed across standards.

Written and maintained by Gerard Blokdyk, The Art of Service.