Whitepaper DORA: Best practices for Leasing Companies and Captives

DORA: Best practices for Independent Leasing Companies and Captives when evaluating software

This whitepaper provides a practical overview of the EU Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA), outlining how leasing companies and captives can align their IT systems and processes to meet regulatory requirements. The focus is on best practices for selecting and evaluating software solutions to ensure compliance and operational resilience.

DORA Whitepaper: 5 Key Agenda Points

• DORA’s Five Pillars & Core Obligations: Overview of the main regulatory requirements for leasing companies and captives, including ICT risk management, incident reporting, resilience testing, third-party risk governance, and oversight of critical ICT providers.
• Compliance Checklist for Leasing Software: Essential technical and contractual criteria for evaluating and selecting leasing contract management solutions under DORA (e.g., risk assessments, encryption, incident management, certifications).
• Benefits of Established Global Platforms: Why leveraging mature, certified platforms (like SAP BTP) simplifies compliance, reduces risk, and provides robust security and auditability compared to smaller vendors.
• Best Practices for IT Architecture & Governance: Recommendations for harmonizing security, centralizing identity and logging, and streamlining incident reporting through a platform-based approach and clean core architectures.
• Actionable Priorities for 2026: Concrete next steps for financial services firms: rationalizing system architecture, implementing end-to-end resilience testing, automating incident reporting, and updating sourcing frameworks for CTPP oversight.

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