How to Achieve DORA Compliance With Illumio

More than 22,000 banking and financial institutions in the EU have less than four months to achieve DORA compliance. Is your organization prepared?  

DORA (Digital Operational Resilience Act) goes into full enforcement on Friday, January 17, 2025. It’s an EU cybersecurity mandate that will improve and standardize cyber resilience for the financial industry.  

If you’re a financial institution doing business in the EU, here are three tools available in the Illumio Zero Trust Segmentation (ZTS) Platform that will help you build DORA compliance.

1. The Illumio Map 

DORA requires organizations to identify all sources of ICT (information communication technology) risk. The best way to do this is to get complete visibility across your entire network.

The Illumio Map provides a straightforward approach to end-to-end visibility.

With the Illumio Map, you can see all communication and network traffic between all workloads and devices across your network in real time. This shows where there are open, high-risk ports that should be closed. All of this information is in one easy-to-understand map.

With this information, security teams can build granular security controls to segment application and workload communication. This helps you contain breaches and build cyber resilience so that an attack doesn’t impact your business operations.

2. The Illumio Core Services Detector 

DORA mandates that security teams track their network’s baseline traffic. This ensures they can quickly detect any unusual activity, including ICT network performance.

All too often, it’s not clear exactly which applications are running on which workloads. It can be very time consuming to try to figure out what those apps are. This can delay your team’s ability to deploy security. And worse, deploying security without a full understanding of application dependencies can lead to outages and down systems.

With Illumio’s Core Services Detector, you can quickly and easily discover a complete inventory of apps and the workloads they’re running on. Then, Illumio will suggest a label for each one.  

This feature allows you to detect apps using either rule-based or machine learning (ML) methods. You can also integrate it with your security information and event management (SIEM) tool to help communicate and detect threats faster.  

3. Enhanced Data Collection 

Containing breaches is a key DORA requirement because it ensures ICT stays resilient even during an active attack. Instead of trying to prevent or detect the next attack, Illumio Zero Trust Segmentation (ZTS) locks the door on your network segments before they can get to your critical assets and data.

But what about the small number of ports that need to stay open so you can run your business? Illumio’s Enhanced Data Collection feature helps you monitor your traffic volumes to find anomalies and take action if needed. This means you can protect your network from breaches without being a blocker to business.  

Enhanced Data Collection helps you respond to breaches as fast as they spread by:

• Tracking network traffic at the workload level

• Sending data on potential threats to your SIEM tool

• Block at-risk ports in real time using your SOAR platform

Get ready for DORA compliance with Illumio

For banking and financial institutions in the EU, achieving compliance by the January 17, 2025 deadline is crucial. The Illumio Platform provides the visibility, control, and rapid response necessary to safeguard your network and maintain business continuity under the DORA framework.  

Meet DORA’s requirements and strengthen your cyber resilience with these three tools from the Illumio platform.

Download our free ebook, Strategies for DORA Compliance: Key Role of Zero Trust Segmentation, to learn more.