DORA requires EU financial entities and their ICT service providers to implement comprehensive logging for ICT-related incidents, change management, and access control.
The Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA) is an EU regulation that took effect on January 17, 2025. It establishes a unified framework for digital operational resilience in the financial sector, covering banks, insurance companies, investment firms, crypto-asset providers, and critically, their ICT third-party service providers. DORA mandates detailed logging requirements for ICT risk management, incident reporting, and resilience testing. SaaS platforms serving European financial institutions must demonstrate logging capabilities that support incident classification, root cause analysis, and regulatory reporting.
DORA applies to over 22,000 financial entities and ICT service providers in the EU
The regulation became effective on January 17, 2025
DORA explicitly requires logging of all ICT transactions and activities (Article 9)
ICT third-party service providers (including SaaS platforms) are directly regulated under DORA
Retention period: 5 years minimum for ICT-related incident records (Article 10)
Financial entities shall put in place mechanisms to promptly detect anomalous activities, including ICT network performance issues and ICT-related incidents. Detection mechanisms shall enable logging of all ICT transactions and activities.
How AuditKit helps: Real-time event capture with SIEM streaming for anomaly detection
Implement ICT-related incident management processes including indicators of compromise, classification, logging, and impact assessment.
How AuditKit helps: Structured incident event schemas with cryptographic integrity for forensic analysis
Maintain logs of backup, restoration, and recovery activities. Verify the integrity of backed-up data through regular testing.
How AuditKit helps: Immutable audit trails capture backup and recovery operations with Merkle proof verification
Monitor and log activities related to ICT third-party service providers including access, changes, and incidents.
How AuditKit helps: Tenant-isolated logging enables third-party activity monitoring and reporting
DORA (EU Regulation 2022/2554) requires financial entities to log all ICT transactions and activities (Article 9), maintain incident records for 5 years (Article 10), log backup and recovery operations (Article 12), and monitor third-party ICT provider activities (Article 15). AuditKit provides the immutable, tamper-proof logging that DORA demands.
Yes. DORA directly regulates ICT third-party service providers, including SaaS platforms that serve EU financial institutions. If your SaaS handles data or provides services to banks, insurance companies, or investment firms in the EU, you need DORA-compliant audit logging.
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