Since January 2025, the Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA) has been binding, but 2026 shows: the real challenge is only just beginning. Financial institutions are increasingly the focus of intensive DORA audits (On-Site Inspections, OSI). Many organizations have developed concepts and documentation. However, supervisory authorities are now evaluating something else: actual operational effectiveness.<\/p>\n
Experienced audit teams analyze IT and governance structures down to the last detail. The focus here is not solely on the guidelines, but above all on their implementation. The result: 60 to over 100 findings per audit are no exception.<\/p>\n
Particularly affected by this are:<\/p>\n
Partner<\/p>\n <\/a>\n <\/a>\n\t \u201eDORA is currently failing due to operational effectiveness. We are currently seeing that the problem is not a lack of concepts, but rather a lack of consistency in implementation,\u201c explains Alexander Wolf, Partner and Industry Lead Financial Services at AdEx Partners<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\t The biggest challenges currently lie in the interplay of various topics:<\/p>\n Based on experience, auditors primarily test implemented governance in practice. Therefore, OSI findings arise mainly where responsibility is not clearly anchored. Central against this background: verifiable governance capability across the entire organization.<\/p>\n Partner<\/p>\n <\/a>\n <\/a>\n\t \u201eDie meisten DORA-Programme sind audit-ready, aber nicht steuerungsf\u00e4hig“, wei\u00df Harry Neumann, Partner and Financial Services Expert at AdEx Partners<\/strong>. \u201eClear roles, reliable registers, functioning control mechanisms, and audit-proof governance are needed here.\u201c<\/p>\n\t We<\/p>\n This is how you can look forward to your DORA review with greater peace of mind and confidence.<\/p>\n\t Acting now means: less risk, better controllability, and sustainable resilience.<\/p>\n Talk to our experts Harry Neumann and Alexander Wolf.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\tContact\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t Partner<\/p>\n <\/a>\n <\/a>\n \n Alexander Wolf \n Partner<\/p>\n <\/a>\n <\/a>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" DORA has been implemented, but audits show: What matters is operational effectiveness. We help financial institutions set up their DORA governance in an audit-proof manner, specifically avoid audit findings, and build sustainable resilience.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":6837,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_pipeline_managed":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[40,41],"tags":[208,209,206,201,203,202,204,207,205,210],"class_list":["post-6765","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-industries","category-services","tag-dora-2026","tag-dora-compliance","tag-dora-eu","tag-dora-fuer-banken","tag-dora-fuer-finanzdienstleister","tag-dora-fuer-versicherungen","tag-dora-it-dienstleister-regulierung","tag-dora-pruefung","tag-dora-verordnung","tag-financial-services"],"blocksy_meta":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adexpartners.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6765","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adexpartners.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adexpartners.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adexpartners.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adexpartners.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6765"}],"version-history":[{"count":23,"href":"https:\/\/www.adexpartners.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6765\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6869,"href":"https:\/\/www.adexpartners.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6765\/revisions\/6869"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adexpartners.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6837"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adexpartners.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adexpartners.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adexpartners.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6765"}],"curies":[{"name":"WP","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Where do the greatest DORA risks arise?<\/strong><\/h3>\n
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What really makes a DORA control audit-proof?<\/strong><\/h3>\nA resilient DORA operating model goes far beyond compliance.
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How does AdEx Partners support DORA implementation?<\/h3>\n
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DORA Audit: Act Now!<\/strong><\/h3>\n
Your contact persons<\/h4>\n \n Harry Neumann \n