Applies if you have EU exposureDORA is EU regulation. This page is for firms with an EU branch or subsidiary, or that serve EU financial entities. Purely domestic US programs should start with PCI DSS, NYDFS, and the GLBA Safeguards Rule.
Compliance · DORA

DORA expects resilience you can prove.
Continuously, not once.

The EU Digital Operational Resilience Act sets ICT risk, resilience, and threat-led testing expectations for financial entities and their critical ICT providers. If DORA reaches your business, SpartanX is The Ultimate Adversary that keeps proving your resilience between formal tests. It supports your program and complements the mandated assessment; it does not make you compliant on its own.

The requirement

ICT resilience, and threat-led penetration testing for significant entities.

DORA requires financial entities to manage ICT risk, test their operational resilience, and, for significant entities, undergo Threat-Led Penetration Testing (TLPT) on a multi-year cadence, roughly every three years, following the TIBER-EU approach, using external testers and independent threat intelligence. Between those formal tests, entities are expected to test and monitor resilience on an ongoing basis.

Scope

EU financial entities, and firms with EU exposure.

DORA applies to a broad set of EU financial entities and their critical ICT third-party providers. For a US firm, it typically reaches you through an EU branch or subsidiary, or by serving EU financial entities. If none of that applies, the US mandates on the compliance hub are your starting point.

How it supports your program

The continuous engine around your formal test.

Continuous resilience testing
Between the multi-year TLPT, SpartanX keeps testing and proving resilience, so posture stays current, not frozen at the last formal test.
External and internal
It tests your external surface, and through NodeX runs the same adversary inside the perimeter. Learn about NodeX.
Complements the mandated assessment
For the formal TLPT, significant entities must use external testers with independent threat intelligence; SpartanX is the continuous engine and evidence layer around that requirement, not a replacement for the mandated assessors.
Exploit-validated findings and retest
Proof with every finding, fixed and re-attacked to confirm closure.
Audit-ready evidence
Continuous, dated reporting to support your resilience program and regulator engagement.
The outcome

Resilience you can show, all year, not just at the test.

If DORA reaches your business, you get continuous, exploit-validated testing inside and out, and a live evidence trail that supports your program and complements the formal TLPT.

Turn a continuous adversary into DORA-ready evidence.

See how SpartanX supports your resilience program between formal threat-led tests.