Cloudflare Authorised Service Delivery Partner (ASDP)
DORA is in force. National authorities are actively supervising. Every bank, insurer, asset manager, and fintech operating in the EU must demonstrate digital operational resilience, or face supervisory consequences. Yet most financial entities are still not fully compliant. Brixio deploys Cloudflare as the technical foundation for DORA compliance: ICT risk management, incident detection, resilience testing readiness, and auditable third-party oversight. One architecture covering five pillars.
DORA applies broadly across the regulated financial sector:
Financial entities must assess, monitor, and document the resilience of their ICT providers. If you provide cloud, security, or managed services to a bank or insurer, your compliance posture is their regulatory concern.
ACPR (France), BaFin (Germany), CSSF (Luxembourg), and the AMF are conducting inspections and can impose corrective measures, restrict activities, or publish findings. The grace period is over.
For financial entities, DORA takes precedence over NIS2. But the requirements overlap significantly: risk management, incident reporting, supply chain oversight. An architecture that addresses one typically addresses both.
DORA organises digital operational resilience around five pillars. Each pillar maps to specific Cloudflare capabilities deployed by Brixio as a unified platform. One architecture, five pillars covered.
Financial entities must implement a comprehensive ICT risk management framework covering identification, protection, detection, response, and recovery.
Financial entities must classify ICT incidents and report major incidents to competent authorities within tight timeframes: initial notification within 4 hours, intermediate report within 72 hours, final report within one month.
Financial entities must conduct regular testing of their ICT systems, including threat-led penetration testing (TLPT) for significant entities.
Financial entities must maintain a register of ICT third-party arrangements, conduct due diligence, and ensure contractual provisions for audit rights, data access, and exit strategies.
Financial entities are encouraged to exchange cyber threat intelligence within trusted communities (sector ISACs).
DORA applies broadly across the regulated financial sector and reaches into the supply chain. Three audiences should pay attention. By sector, Brixio supports DORA compliance for banking, insurance, fintechs and asset managers.
21 categories of regulated financial entities: credit institutions, payment and electronic money institutions, investment firms, central securities depositories, insurance and reinsurance undertakings, management companies (UCITS, AIFM), crypto-asset service providers (since MiCA alignment), central counterparties, credit rating agencies, crowdfunding service providers.
Article 28 places explicit obligations on financial entities to monitor, assess, and document the resilience of third-party ICT providers. Cloud providers, MSSPs, infrastructure operators, and SaaS vendors serving regulated financial entities are indirectly but materially affected.
Non-EU financial entities operating in EU markets, or serving EU-regulated clients, are caught through their contractual relationships. Brixio supports DORA compliance across EMEA and the GCC for banks and fintechs operating cross-border.
DORA is explicitly defined as a lex specialis of NIS2 (Article 1(2) of NIS2). For financial entities subject to both, DORA's sector-specific requirements take precedence. An architecture that satisfies DORA's five pillars simultaneously covers NIS2's technical requirements for financial entities. This is why Brixio designs compliance architectures that address both regulations from a single Cloudflare deployment.
DORA: 4h initial / 72h intermediate / 1 month final.
NIS2: 24h early warning / 72h full notification.
Same Cloudflare capability covers both: real-time logging, single-pane correlation, SIEM export.
DORA: Articles 28-44 (detailed register, due diligence, contractual provisions, audit rights).
NIS2: Article 21 (general supply chain security).
Brixio's ASDP and ISO 27001:2022 evidence supports both regimes.
DORA: Articles 24-27 (regular testing, mandatory TLPT for significant entities).
NIS2: implied in Article 21.
Cloudflare configuration audit and policy validation are aligned with TIBER-EU testing requirements.
DORA compliance requires more than policies on paper. It requires an ICT infrastructure that can be tested, audited, and proven resilient. Brixio delivers the technical architecture.
WAF, DDoS, Zero Trust, Magic WAN, API Shield, Gateway deployed as a unified platform. One architecture, five pillars covered.
Cloudflare Authorised Service Delivery Partner with direct escalation to Cloudflare engineering. Compliance governance built into our own operations, supporting your Article 28 due diligence.
Single-pane Cloudflare correlation qualifies a major ICT incident in time to meet DORA's 4-hour initial notification, where stacked tooling typically does not.
Engineers in Luxembourg, Paris, Dubai, and Singapore. Deep knowledge of ACPR (France), CSSF (Luxembourg), BaFin (Germany), and GCC financial regulators (CBUAE, SAMA, CBB).
Every configuration mapped to DORA's five pillars and documented for audit readiness. Compliance evidence is an output, not an afterthought.
Cloudflare projects across regulated industries, including banking institutions in the Gulf and Europe.
DORA is not a checkbox exercise. Brixio's professional services team deploys the Cloudflare architecture mapped to your supervisor's expectations, and an assessment is the natural starting point.
DORA (Digital Operational Resilience Act, Regulation EU 2022/2554) is a European regulation that imposes digital operational resilience obligations on financial entities. It covers ICT risk management, incident reporting (initial notification within 4 hours), resilience testing, third-party ICT oversight, and information sharing. It applies directly across all EU member states and has been enforceable since January 2025. National authorities are now actively supervising compliance.
DORA applies to 21 categories of financial entities, including banks, payment institutions, insurance undertakings, investment firms, asset managers, and crypto-asset service providers. It also affects ICT third-party service providers serving these entities through Article 28's oversight requirements.
DORA is a lex specialis of NIS2: it takes precedence for financial entities. DORA's requirements are more detailed, with specific incident reporting timelines (4h/72h/1 month vs NIS2's 24h/72h), mandatory resilience testing including TLPT, and comprehensive third-party ICT oversight provisions. The underlying technical requirements overlap significantly.
Cloudflare covers a significant portion of DORA's technical requirements across all five pillars. However, DORA also includes organisational requirements (governance frameworks, internal policies, testing programmes, contractual arrangements with ICT providers) that require internal action. Brixio handles the technical deployment and compliance mapping.
As an ASDP-certified and ISO 27001:2022-certified partner, Brixio provides the documentation, audit trails, and compliance evidence that your Article 28 due diligence requires. Every configuration decision is documented. Engagement terms align with DORA's contractual requirements (Article 30).
Yes. Payment institutions, electronic money institutions, and crypto-asset service providers are directly in scope. Additionally, fintechs providing ICT services to regulated financial entities fall under Article 28's third-party oversight requirements, even if the fintech itself is not directly regulated by DORA.
In France, the ACPR (Autorite de Controle Prudentiel et de Resolution) is the competent authority for DORA supervision of credit institutions and insurance undertakings. The AMF supervises investment firms and management companies. Both authorities can request evidence of digital operational resilience at any time.
DORA is not a checkbox exercise. It is a mandate to prove that your financial infrastructure can withstand, respond to, and recover from ICT disruptions. Brixio deploys the Cloudflare architecture that makes that proof auditable.
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