ICT Risk Governance
Clear ownership, decision rights, risk framework, management reporting and accountability.
DORA compliance services for financial entities implementing, strengthening and evidencing digital operational resilience under Regulation (EU) 2022/2554 — from ICT risk governance and incident management to third-party risk, contracts, testing and the Register of Information.
From DORA gap assessment and ICT risk governance to incident reporting, resilience-testing governance, third-party ICT risk, contract remediation and the Register of Information. Technical testing and ICT implementation are coordinated with specialist providers where required.
DORA reaches beyond cybersecurity policy. It links management-body accountability, ICT risk governance, incident management, continuity, resilience testing and third-party ICT dependencies into one operational and evidenced compliance framework.
Clear ownership, decision rights, risk framework, management reporting and accountability.
Classification, escalation, regulatory reporting workflow, records and evidence.
Business continuity, backup, restoration, recovery objectives and test governance.
Risk-based testing programme, issue management, remediation evidence and TLPT governance where applicable.
Provider assessment, concentration, contracts, subcontracting, oversight and exit planning.
Register of Information, documentation quality, approvals, testing records and traceable implementation.
The engagement is scoped to the entity, DORA perimeter, ICT dependencies, outsourcing model and maturity of existing controls. A focused workstream can be commissioned independently or combined into a broader DORA programme.
DORA-specific assessment of the current framework and implementation evidence against applicable requirements.
Build or strengthen the regulatory governance framework around ICT risk and management-body oversight.
Regulatory governance for identifying, classifying, escalating and reporting ICT-related incidents.
Governance of continuity and resilience testing, including specialist technical testing where applicable.
Risk-based oversight of ICT providers and the dependencies supporting critical or important functions.
DORA-specific review of ICT contractual arrangements and required regulatory clauses.
Governance and quality review of the DORA information set required to demonstrate ICT third-party arrangements.
For authorised CASPs, digital operational resilience is not only a policy requirement. The operating model, custody architecture, governance and third-party technology dependencies must be capable of withstanding supervisory scrutiny.
LEX ARTA supports the regulatory, governance, contractual and evidence workstreams. Where the engagement requires technical architecture review, penetration testing, key-management testing or security assessment, those activities are performed by appropriately qualified technology specialists.
The DORA workstream is structured so that regulatory interpretation, governance, documentation and contractual responsibilities remain connected to the technical reality without presenting LEX ARTA as an ICT testing or cybersecurity engineering provider.
DORA applies across a broad range of EU financial entities. Scope and proportionality depend on the entity type, activities, size, complexity and ICT operating model.
ICT governance, incident, continuity, testing and third-party risk frameworks proportionate to the entity's operating model.
DORA implementation alongside payment-services governance, outsourcing and operational-risk arrangements.
Operational resilience governance for authorised CASPs, including custody-specific dependencies and supervisory evidence.
ICT risk governance, incident management, third-party arrangements and implementation evidence.
Support for in-scope management companies and managers, aligned to their outsourcing and ICT risk model.
Contractual readiness, due-diligence responses and evidence requirements arising from DORA-regulated clients and, where relevant, the EU oversight framework.
The exact deliverable set depends on whether the engagement is diagnostic, framework-build, remediation or a focused third-party / incident / contract workstream.
Each engagement is scoped to the regulatory question, entity, ICT model, provider landscape, documentation maturity and required outputs. A defined scope, timeline and professional fee are agreed before work begins.
Risk-ranked gaps, evidence weaknesses and remediation priorities.
Roles, decision rights, reporting lines, controls and policy architecture.
Documentation aligned to the selected DORA workstreams and actual operating model.
Classification, escalation, reporting workflow, records and responsibilities.
Testing policy, programme governance, findings and remediation tracking.
Provider assessment, criticality, oversight, exit and dependency documentation.
Clause review, issue matrix and DORA-specific remediation priorities.
Governance, mapping, quality review and maintenance arrangements.
DORA often connects to broader regulatory, contractual and supervisory work. These services remain separate so that the scope is clear and each page answers a different client need.
DORA is approached as a governance, control and evidence framework. Regulatory interpretation stays connected to the ICT operating model while specialist technical work remains clearly separated.
Regulation (EU) 2022/2554 has applied since 17 January 2025. For in-scope financial entities, DORA is an ongoing compliance obligation requiring operational, documented and evidenced digital operational resilience arrangements.
A DORA-specific gap assessment can cover ICT risk governance, incident management and reporting, continuity, resilience testing governance, ICT third-party risk, contracts, the Register of Information and implementation evidence. A broader multi-regime review is handled through Regulatory Gap Assessment.
Authorised CASPs within DORA scope must meet the applicable digital operational resilience requirements. Custody models may require particular attention to governance, key and storage dependencies, transaction controls, incident response and third-party technology risk.
LEX ARTA leads the regulatory, governance, documentation, contractual and compliance workstreams. Penetration testing, vulnerability testing, technical resilience testing, architecture assessment and specialist ICT implementation are performed by appropriately qualified technical providers where required.
LEX ARTA can support testing governance, policy, responsibilities, issue management, evidence and coordination. Where TLPT or other specialist technical testing is applicable, the technical testing itself is performed by qualified providers.
Yes. The DORA workstream focuses on DORA-specific contractual requirements such as audit and access rights, incident cooperation, data, subcontracting, continuity, termination and exit. Broader commercial drafting or negotiation can be scoped under Commercial Contracts.
Yes. LEX ARTA can support governance, responsibility allocation, provider and contract mapping, data-quality review and maintenance arrangements. Technical extraction or system integration can be coordinated separately where required.
Share the entity type, main ICT dependencies and the issue driving the review. The next step is a defined regulatory scope, evidence set, deliverables and any specialist technical dependencies.
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