DORA (Digital Operational Resilience Act) has been in force across the EU since January 2025, covering over 22,000 financial entities. The regulation's five pillars — ICT risk management, incident reporting, resilience testing, third-party risk management, and information sharing — all depend on having an accurate, continuously updated picture of your ICT estate. Key pressure points include a strict 4h/72h/1-month incident reporting cadence that leaves no time for scope discovery, an annually submitted Register of Information on third-party ICT arrangements that rots if treated as a static spreadsheet, and continuous resilience testing that requires an always-accurate asset map. The core argument is that DORA compliance fails at the infrastructure layer when organisations lack a live, queryable system of record for assets, dependencies, and business-function mappings. The post also promotes NetBox Labs' platform and its Validation feature as tools that address these obligations through continuous discovery and policy checking.
