How can we help?

The Arthur Cox DORA Toolkit has been designed by our Legal and Consulting Experts to provide you with high quality, cost-effective solutions to quickly and effectively address the key areas of focus for your organisation, as you implement your DORA compliance programme.

If you need further help or support at any time, Arthur Cox is on hand to lead you through the process and to provide any assistance you may require. In particular, the Governance, Risk and Consulting Team can support you in designing and/or enhancing your methodologies, plans, processes and procedures to ensure you comply with DORA and that the impact of a disruption or crisis event, whether internal or external, has as little impact to your operations as possible. Our team has a depth of real-world experience in business continuity, disaster recovery, crisis management, as well as exit & contingency planning in the case of an outage or failure of a service provider, which we apply to help you strengthen your resilience capabilities.

Further services that we offer as it relates to Technology & Operational Resilience include:


ICT, CLOUD & AI RISK MANAGEMENT

Incorporating ICT Resilience Risk into your existing risk management framework, including policies & procedures as Support the design of MI reporting

OVERSIGHT & MANAGEMENT OF THIRD-PARTY PROVIDERS ​

Design of Oversight and Due Diligence Frameworks​

Drafting & review of contraCts and service level agreements​

Reporting Requirements​

Procedures for Third-Party Register maintenance & management


DORA REGISTER

Designing practices and procedures to make sure your DORA-compliant register is complete and accurate.​

Supporting the identification and classification of service providers to be included within the DORA-compliant register

TESTING & REPORTING REQUIREMENTS

Sharing insights and best practice in relation to testing requirements ​

Review of relevant document and reporting to ensure compliance with relevant regulatory obligations


IDENTIFICATION OF CRITICAL OR IMPORTANT BUSINESS SERVICES

Development of clear and concise methodology to identify critical or important business services.

MAPPING OF BUSINESS SERVICES

Support with the mapping of material dependencies (people, systems, third-parties etc.).


BUSINESS CONTINUITY & RESILIENCY PLANNING

Design and implementation of appropriate plans and procedures which reflect, amongst other things:​

  • A reliance on the continuity of technology-based systems and IT infrastructure.​
  • A complex web of service providers and dependencies​

ALSO, ASK US ABOUT:

  • CBI Cross Industry Guidance on Operational Resilience​
  • Digital Operational Resilience Act (“DORA”)​
  • The EU AI Act​
  • UCITS, AIFMD & Fund Management Companies – Guidance (“CP86”)

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