The Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA) aims to strengthen the ICT security of financial entities and ensure the resilience of the financial sector in the event of cyber-attacks or other digital disruption.

DORA: Interpreting the EU’s Digital Operational Resilience Act is a definitive and detailed handbook, covering the legislative and compliance requirements. Split into two parts, this book provides an in-depth guide to DORA, whilst also examining the most recent updates and current practical issues.

The book covers the various new and detailed reporting obligations that are created, alongside:
- Increasing different types of IT security
- Digital operational resilience (which is wider than just security)
- Boards, roles and responsibilities
- ICT risk management frameworks
- Digital operational resilience testing and penetration testing and assessing
- Patching and vulnerabilities
- Modern and legacy systems
- Identification, protection, prevention, and detection
- Response, recovery, and backups
- Third party service providers and dependencies
- Crisis communication responses, training, learning, and evolving
- Liability, investigations, enforcement, costs, and penalties

The guide is essential reading for those working in financial services, insurance and ICT, alongside legal professionals and industry regulators.

This title is included in Bloomsbury Professional's Intellectual Property and IT online service.

Dr Paul Lambert BA LLB LLM, TMA, CTMA, professor, visiting research fellow, qualified lawyer, PhD, CDPO, CIPP/E, CRISC, and editor, has been publishing articles in legal and business journals (including the European Intellectual Property Review) on topics such as data protection, the internet, intellectual property and courtroom broadcasting for many years. He was nominated for the Picasso Privacy Award and the Inner Temple Book Prize.

Paul is the author of a number of books, including Data Protection and Data Transfers Law (2023), Gringras: The Laws of the Internet (6th edition, 2022), and Data Protection, Privacy Regulators and Supervisory Authorities (2020), all published by Bloomsbury Professional.