European Union · financial sector

DORA and the code your institution runs on

The Digital Operational Resilience Act now applies to EU financial entities, turning ICT risk management from good practice into supervised law. Underneath its pillars sits an unavoidable technical layer: knowing your software, finding its weaknesses, and fixing them demonstrably.

Who this applies to Banks, insurers, investment firms, payment and e-money institutions, crypto-asset service providers, and their critical ICT third-party providers.

What it asks for

ICT risk management framework

Identify, protect, detect, respond, and recover, with documented processes and board accountability.

Resilience testing

A testing program including vulnerability assessments and scanning, scaled up to threat-led penetration testing for significant entities.

ICT third-party risk

Manage the risk of ICT services and software you procure, through the lifecycle of the relationship.

Incident classification and reporting

Detect, classify, and report major ICT incidents to supervisors on defined timelines.

How SecuNexa and BOMNexa map to it

Vulnerability assessment and scanning

Nine engines cover applications, dependencies, containers, and network services, inside the perimeter DORA-regulated environments actually run.

Third-party ICT software risk

Vendor artifacts scanned like your own code; supplier SBOMs ingested and monitored against new disclosures.

Framework evidence

Auditable findings lifecycle, deterministic reports, and posture trends supply the documentation layer supervisors sample.

Tools do not make you compliant; they make compliance provable. SecuNexa and BOMNexa supply the technical evidence described on this page. Governance, process, and legal interpretation belong to your compliance function, and this page is not legal advice.

Frequently asked questions

Does DORA mandate specific tools?

No. It mandates capabilities and evidence: vulnerability management, testing, third-party risk control. Supervisors then examine whether the capability is real. This platform is the software-layer substance behind those capabilities.

We are a small payment institution. Does proportionality save us?

DORA scales requirements with size and risk, but the core framework applies broadly. Proportionality changes the depth of testing, not the need to know and manage your software risk.

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