The 2026 DORA Playbook: Identity-first operational resilience

Why identity is key to DORA compliance success

With the Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA) deadline behind us, the real challenge begins: proving compliance and operational resilience. Regulators now demand more than good faith efforts; they expect demonstrable compliance and mature, operationalized frameworks. For most financial organizations, the path to true resilience leads back to identity.

DORA compliance isn't just about surviving an outage. It's about proving you can control who has access to your critical systems — especially when those "who's" are third-party vendors, bots, and their subcontractors. Manual processes and fragmented data create blind spots that can lead to audit failures and breaches.

This playbook explores the state of DORA in 2026 and provides a clear path from compliance burden to business enabler.

Inside this playbook, you'll discover:

• The shift from compliance to maturity: Learn how to provide evidence of ongoing risk mitigation, not just static, point-in-time snapshots.
• The third-party blind spot: Uncover how to identify and manage access risks across your supply chain.
• How to automate the Register of Information (ROI): See how a unified identity approach provides the data needed to map business functions to ICT assets and the third parties that manage them.
• A practical framework for resilience: Move from static reporting to continuous, evidence-backed resilience that turns a regulatory requirement into a competitive advantage.