Tabletop exercise

DORA (EU 2022/2554) tabletop exercise

Financial-sector ICT resilience: testing, third-party risk, major-incident reporting.

We can run the DORA (EU 2022/2554) exercise for your team, or set you up as a facilitator to run it yourself.

What the room works through

EU Digital Operational Resilience Act (2022/2554) ICT risk requirements

EU financial entity (bank, insurer, payment institution, investment firm) and its critical ICT providers. Use article refs such as Art.5-14, Art.17-20, Art.24-26, Art.28-30 and domains Governance, Risk management, Incident management, Reporting, Testing, Third party risk. Emphasise the register of information, concentration risk, exit strategies and threat-led penetration testing.

Clauses
22
Rounds
10 across two stages
Room size
Up to 20 participants

Stage 1 — assess

Tables rate control maturity, agree the risk that matters for the room, then face an audit round where a peer table challenges the call. Every decision is logged against a DORA (EU 2022/2554) clause.

Stage 2 — survive

Incidents and complications hit the tables: crisis injects, budget cuts and a concealed insider. Controls bought in Stage 1 pay out — or the gap shows.

What you take away

  • Clause-by-clause coverage across DORA (EU 2022/2554)
  • A gap list ranked by what the room could not defend
  • Per-table divergence, so you can see where opinion split
  • Word and CSV exports plus a drafted findings narrative

New to facilitating? Start with the facilitator manual or read the session walkthrough.

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