
IAF Awareness and Readiness survey 2023
We are delighted to bring you our third individual accountability framework awareness and readiness survey report in partnership with the Compliance Institute.
DORA will apply to a wide range of financial entities, from banks to insurers and investment firms, but also their critical technology suppliers, bringing IT firms within the remit of financial regulators for the first time. Many of those in scope may not be ready.
The imperative for DORA is clear. The extent to which financial services businesses rely on technology, particularly as digital transformation, leaves them vulnerable to failure in the event of a serious cyber attack, potentially leading to systemic problems. The European Commission’s data suggests attacks on financial institutions rose 38% during the Covid-19 pandemic.
Still, securing digital resilience is not straightforward. And while the DORA regulation, agreed upon provisionally by the Council of the EU and the European Parliament in May, will need to be implemented individually by the EU’s member states, time is starting to run out to prepare for compliance. The new regime is likely to be up and running by 2024, with significant penalties for compliance failures, including the potential for a fine of up to 1% of the business’s turnover. Reputational damage and erosion of customer trust could be even more expensive.
Where should the focus be as compliance work accelerates? There are three areas in particular that many businesses will find especially challenging:
Closing these gaps may require significant remedial work and a move to cyber solutions that provide the functionality required for DORA compliance. And financial services firms must be confident their third-party suppliers are making the same effort.
For chief information security officers (CISOs), the stakes are high. Board awareness of DORA is beginning to increase, prompting senior leaders to ask demanding questions about their cyber security functions. External scrutiny is mounting up, too, as regulators prepare for full-scale implementation. The countdown to compliance has begun.
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