DORA vs Cyber Resilience Act
Understand the overlap, differences, and compliance synergy between DORA and the EU Cyber Resilience Act (CRA).
Core Definition
While DORA focuses heavily on financial regulation principles, the Cyber Resilience Act specifically targets the cybersecurity of products with digital elements. Compliance with DORA provides a strong foundation, but does not completely satisfy CRA requirements. You will still need to ensure CRA-specific mandates like SBOM generation, secure by default configurations, and 24-hour vulnerability reporting to ENISA.
Key Compliance Steps for DORA
- Map Existing Controls: Identify which DORA controls map directly to CRA Annex I requirements (e.g., risk assessments and access control).
- Identify CRA Gaps: The CRA has strict product-centric requirements (like 5-year security updates and SBOMs) that DORA might not explicitly mandate.
- Combine Documentation: Leverage your DORA evidence as part of the CRA Technical Documentation package to ease compliance efforts.
How This Plays Out in Practice
DORA and CRA both push ICT risk management and incident reporting into contractual and regulatory obligations, so financial firms often need to satisfy both simultaneously.
What to Watch For
DORA governs financial entities' operational resilience; CRA governs the products themselves — a bank's core banking software vendor needs CRA compliance even if the bank alone is DORA's direct target.
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