Countdown to DORA: Are you ready for January 17, 2025? - Zerto
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Countdown to DORA: Are you ready for January 17, 2025?

January 14, 2025
Business & IT Resilience
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The Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA) deadline is fast approaching. By January 17, 2025, financial institutions and ICT service providers in the EU must meet stringent requirements to enhance IT resilience, manage risk, and recover quickly from disruptions. Non-compliance with DORA isn’t just about fines; it risks eroding customer trust, damaging your reputation, and jeopardizing business continuity.

What is DORA, and Why Does It Matter?

DORA establishes a regulatory framework to strengthen IT resilience and cybersecurity across the EU financial sector. As reliance on digital technologies by financial institutions increases, so does the risk of cyberattacks, IT failures, and third-party vulnerabilities.

Key requirements include:

  • ICT Risk Management – Identify, mitigate, and monitor IT risks.
  • Incident Reporting – Quickly detect and report major incidents to regulators.
  • Resilience Testing – Regularly test disaster recovery and continuity plans.
  • Third-Party Risk Management – Manage risks from ICT service providers.
  • Information Sharing – Collaborate to strengthen cybersecurity defenses.

How Zerto Helps You Meet DORA Standards

Achieving resilience by the DORA deadline requires robust tools for business continuity and cyber recovery. Zerto, a Hewlett Packard Enterprise company, delivers industry-leading solutions to help you:

  1. Achieve Near-Zero RPOs:
  2. Simplify Disaster Recovery Testing:
    • Perform non-disruptive testing of recovery plans for compliance validation without impacting production.
  3. Recover Rapidly from Disruptions:
    • Recover data and systems in minutes, enabling timely operational restoration and regulatory reporting.

Why the Zerto Cyber Resilience Vault is Essential for DORA

The Zerto Cyber Resilience Vault adds an essential layer of protection designed specifically for cyber resilience, offering an all-in-one approach and ensuring swift air-gapped recovery following even the most severe cyberattacks or disruptions:

  • Air-Gapped Protection: Isolated recovery environment to protect against cyberattacks and data corruption.
  • Immutable Data Copies: Safeguard data integrity, ensuring it cannot be altered or deleted.
  • Fast Recovery and Validation: Rapid restoration of operations and seamless compliance testing.
  • Quick Recovery and Testing: Rapid restoration of operations while validating recovery plans with ease.
  • Risk Mitigation: Address operational risk management with an audit-ready, resilient solution.

Ensure Compliance Before Time Runs Out

With the January 17, 2025, deadline approaching, there’s no time to waste. Evaluate your operational resilience and ensure you have the tools to meet DORA’s standards. Zerto and the Zerto Cyber Resilience Vault provide the confidence and solutions needed to achieve compliance with ease.

Martin Oderinde
Product Marketing Manager

Martin Oderinde is an established marketing professional, with experience in technology as well as oil and gas. Prior to his current role at Zerto, Martin served as the Small & Medium Business Product Marketing Manager at HPE. Martin graduated from Baylor University and has earned his Masters in Marketing from the University of Houston.