DORA

In my last few years as a Team Leader DevSecOps, I’ve spent a significant amount of time helping customers, mostly in the financial sector, navigate the complexities of cloud-native security. I have seen companies invest heavily in state-of-the-art runtime protection, CNAPPs, and sophisticated CI/CD security gates. Yet, a familiar pattern emerges time and again: the moment security teams start looking at vulnerability reports, chaos ensues. The numbers are just too high to handle, creating a paralyzing sense of alert fatigue. ...

With the Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA) now in effect across the European Union as of January 17, 2025, financial institutions face unprecedented cybersecurity and operational resilience requirements. Successfully achieving DORA compliance demands a comprehensive security strategy that also includes the following three fundamental components: Robust secrets management Hardened container images with minimal vulnerabilities Unified cloud-native application protection platforms (CNAPPs) These technologies work synergistically to meet DORA’s stringent ICT risk management, asset identification, and third-party oversight mandates. ...