Implementing DORA in a Financial Institution

Implementing DORA in a financial institution requires full compliance with the principles of digital operational resilience. The DORA regulation (2022/2554) obliges banks and their ICT service providers to continuously manage operational risk and cybersecurity. These requirements include the thorough identification and classification of all ICT assets, such as servers, applications, databases, and documents. Institutions must also document the relationships between these assets.

DORA mandates the implementation of IT incident handling procedures—from detection and analysis to system recovery. Any major cyber event must be reported according to official guidelines. Institutions are also required to regularly test system resilience, for example through penetration testing. Strict enforcement of data retention policies is equally crucial: data cannot be stored longer than legally permitted. Every change to the IT infrastructure must be logged and auditable.

Detecto – Data Identification and Risk Management

Detecto is a tool that automates the detection and classification of sensitive data in a company’s systems and documents. It uses AI technologies (OCR and NLP) to scan corporate resources (files, databases, emails) for personal and sensitive information. This makes it fully aligned with DORA’s requirement to identify all informational assets. Detecto enables organizations to:

• Detect all instances of personal data (e.g., national ID numbers, addresses, bank accounts) in documents and databases—reducing weeks of manual work to just a few hours of automated analysis.
• Generate reports that locate personal data assets—significantly simplifying internal and external audits (e.g., for DORA or GDPR compliance).
• Analyze incidents—if a data breach occurs, Detecto can quickly identify whether sensitive information was involved and what type of data was exposed.

By offering these capabilities, Detecto supports effective information risk management. It automatically builds a catalog of critical data and their storage points, helping institutions assess potential threats. This enables better planning of ICT risk mitigation activities and supports DORA’s requirements for protecting assets from unauthorized access or damage.

Revelio – Detection of Unauthorized Resources and Data

Revelio scans shared file storage, employee computers, and email accounts to identify documents containing sensitive data. It uncovers “hidden” resources—files and folders containing personal data that were not previously included in official systems. Revelio helps institutions to:

• Locate all documents with personal data (e.g., national IDs, medical or financial records) stored on company devices—providing visibility and enabling better protection.
• Identify business processes that generate sensitive documents—supporting the transition to digital workflows and reducing risks associated with paper-based or uncontrolled data sources.
• Support data retention policies—integrating with document deletion (anonymization) procedures once the retention period has expired. The system flags such files for archiving or deletion, helping to meet DORA and GDPR requirements.
• Build employee awareness—through oversight and reporting features that delegate data security responsibility across the organization.

Revelio enhances visibility across the data environment and identifies unauthorized information assets. In the DORA context, it ensures no confidential data is “forgotten” within the IT structure. Integrated with Oblivio, it supports full enforcement of data retention policies—once documents with expired legal grounds are detected, Revelio enables their safe removal or anonymization. This ensures compliance with DORA data protection and retention requirements.

Nocturno – Safe Test Environments

Nocturno is a tool for creating secure test environments using anonymized production data. It allows financial institutions to test cyber resilience and business continuity without exposing real customer data. Nocturno uses custom dictionaries and generators to keep the structure of production data. It replaces real values like IDs, tax numbers, or birthdates with fictitious but valid ones. Key features include:

• Anonymization across multiple databases while maintaining consistency—Nocturno processes large datasets in parallel and ensures that identical records are anonymized the same way across all systems. This results in realistic test environments (e.g., the same user receives consistent fake data in all databases).
• Support for various database types (MySQL, Oracle, SQL Server, etc.) while respecting integrity constraints—Nocturno maintains checksums and table relations to avoid system failures.
• Integration with Detecto—first identifying sensitive fields, then automatically anonymizing them according to business rules.

These features minimize the risk of using real personal data during testing or system migrations. DORA requires resilience testing to occur in secure environments while maintaining data confidentiality. Nocturno enables this by supporting tests such as disaster recovery or simulated attacks without exposing sensitive customer data.

Oblivio – Managing the Data Lifecycle

Oblivio is a tool for central management of data retention and anonymization across the entire organization. It helps define how long personal data (e.g., consents or contracts) may be stored. After this period expires, Oblivio automatically cleans the database. It integrates with other IT systems and triggers data anonymization or deletion once the legal basis expires. Core functionalities include:

• Data retention configuration – setting rules for how long specific types of personal data can be stored. After this period, data is marked as expired.
• Anonymization and deletion – once retention conditions are met, the system replaces customer data with fictional values (e.g., a synthetic identity) across all related systems. This enforces the “right to be forgotten” and prevents unnecessary data retention.
• Reporting and audit – Oblivio provides detailed reports and statistics on deleted or anonymized records, enabling constant monitoring of the data retention policy.
• Accountability – every data operation (deletion, modification) is logged, including who performed the action and when. This gives financial institutions a complete audit trail for compliance reviews.

Oblivio helps meet DORA requirements for managing the data lifecycle and ensuring accountability. Automating retention processes reduces human error and ensures that no sensitive data is kept without a legal basis. The detailed logs prove that the institution’s data management policies are properly enforced—critical for audits and compliance checks.

Summary

Implementing DORA in a financial institution requires the synergy of modern data management and security tools.

• Detecto and Revelio automatically detect and classify data across systems and documents—supporting DORA’s inventory and asset protection requirements.
• Nocturno enables safe testing using anonymized data, ensuring confidentiality is maintained during resilience assessments.
• Oblivio manages the full data lifecycle—automating retention, deletion, and audit operations to ensure accountability and compliance.

By using Wizards tools together, financial institutions and ICT providers meet DORA’s technical requirements. At the same time, they strengthen operational resilience and are better prepared for cybersecurity incidents.