Udemy – DORA for Operational Leaders: What You Must Do to Pass Audit

The EU Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA) reshapes how financial entities and their critical ICT service providers manage ICT risk, cyber security, and operational resilience. This course gives you a practical, technical, and compliance‑focused roadmap to understand DORA and apply it in real organizations.

Designed for mixed audiences across IT, cyber security, risk, compliance, and management, the course explains DORA’s regulatory context, core Articles, and RTS/ITS themes, then translates them into clear design, implementation, and governance steps.

What You Will Learn

By the end of this course, you will be able to:

• Explain DORA’s purpose, scope, and key requirements in plain language to both technical and non‑technical stakeholders.
• Map DORA obligations to existing frameworks such as NIS2, ISO 27001, NIST CSF, and internal ICT risk and security practices.
• Design DORA‑aligned governance and risk management structures, including roles, responsibilities, and risk appetite.
• Implement ICT security and resilience controls that meet DORA expectations across infrastructure, applications, and cloud.
• Set up incident reporting processes and playbooks that align with DORA’s timelines, thresholds, and communication duties.
• Manage ICT third‑party and outsourcing risk under DORA, from critical provider classification to contractual clauses and monitoring.
• Operationalize DORA in day‑to‑day work, including documentation, evidence, KPIs/KRIs, and audit readiness.

Key Benefits:

• Practical, not just theoretical – focuses on how to actually implement DORA in real financial environments.
• Bridges business, risk, and technology – suitable for IT/security staff, risk & compliance teams, and managers.
• Regulation translated into controls – connects Articles and regulatory guidance to concrete processes, tools, and governance.
• Future‑proof perspective – shows how DORA interacts with other EU regulations and industry standards.

Core Topics Covered:

• DORA foundations: scope, definitions, regulatory context, and supervision
• ICT risk management framework and governance model
• ICT security, resilience, and testing expectations
• Incident classification, escalation, and regulatory reporting workflows
• Third‑party and critical ICT service provider risk management
• Operationalization: documentation, metrics, oversight, and continuous improvement