DORA came into effect in 2023, but as of 2025, all EU-based financial entities and their service providers are required to show and maintain compliance. That means you’re required to have a pentesting and cybersecurity program in place to build operational and digital supply chain resilience through cybersecurity efforts such as but not limited to pentesting, scanning, code and network assessments, cybersecurity assessments, and threat led pentesting.
While the requirements are fairly open ended for normal security (you have to have a cybersecurity program in place to schedule, track, and manage assessments and testing to ensure cybersecurity with specifics detailed in Article 24 and Article 25 of the DORA), you’ll have to track, document, and show proof of running that program when audited.
Your DORA cybersecurity program can be as involved as you want but at minimum has to include planning, implementation, and proof of:
- Pentesting and vulnerability assessments at least annually (Internal or external)
- Encouragement to do continuous assessments with scanners
- Threat led pentesting every 3 years with every third pentest to be external
- Timely vulnerability remediation / risk remediation
- Secure storage and management of cybersecurity risks and results
Managing and showing compliance to that program and showing proof of an internal pentest to meet DORA regulatory obligations can be time-consuming and complex, especially as stakeholders can be spread throughout the organization and data might be scattered.
With Cyver Core, you get a centralized pentest platform to manage DORA cybersecurity compliance and reporting – complete with everything you need to monitor risks, perform regular pentesting, report on vulnerabilities, and show results during DORA audits.
Pentest Management & Scheduling
Cyver Core allows you to plan, schedule, and even automate different types of pentests and scans with a suite of pentest management tooling. This includes:
- Scheduling to plan out pentests and threat led pentesting across your program, so everything is planned and visible for cybersecurity teams
- Automate scanning with scheduled or real-time software to create ongoing insight into risks
- Link developers to cybersecurity teams to enable rapidly planning and implementing on-demand assessments and tests of new software, code assessments, etc., so cybersecurity stays aligned with development
Mapping your DORA cybersecurity program in Cyver Core means everything is scheduled and all stakeholders have insight into when and how those assessments take place. In addition, with assets, requirements, frameworks and responsible people mapped out in advance, those tests can simply take place as scheduled, with no dependencies or bottlenecks, so you stay secure.
Asset Management
Upload assets to the platform, complete with hashed access details, linked IPs, and other details. That can be your own assets and environments or those of your third-party supplies, so you can schedule and run assessments and ensure your external vendor’s security meets your obligations for DORA.
- Secure storage
- Hashed access data
- Role-based access management (only teams testing the asset need access to the asset)
When you upload an asset, you assign an asset owner. You can also assign a team to be responsible for remediation for the asset. Then, you link that asset in pentest and assessment templates. It’s only ever visible to teams responsible for testing or maintaining it. When vulnerabilities are found, they’re linked to the asset and teams get notifications of those vulnerabilities, which they can export directly to their own work management tooling.
Cross-Team Collaboration
Cybersecurity and risk management involves aligning work across internal and external cybersecurity teams, dev teams, compliance teams, and IT teams. With Cyver Core, your DORA compliance is handled in one place, with all cybersecurity efforts handled through the same platform.
- Teams are onboarded with role-based access management and privileges
- External team roles keep data secure so external testers and auditors only see what they need to see to do their jobs
- Devs, engineers, and compliance officers can securely communicate with pentesters in the platform
- External pentest teams can upload results directly to the platform once they’re onboarded
- Stakeholders can request pentests and assessments on-demand with direct communication with pentest and cybersecurity teams
- Integrated sign-off means cybersecurity teams can request sign-off for pentests and scans, even of third-party applications, directly from the portal.
Pentest management with Cyver Core means you can align your DORA cybersecurity initiatives across teams, even when those teams are external.
Risk Monitoring & Vulnerability Management
Cyver Core allows you to import vulnerabilities from all your tooling to manage it in one, simple dashboard. This includes manually uploading vulnerabilities from threat led pentesting and red teaming / purple teaming assignments, importing findings from pentest and cybersecurity tools and scanners, and automatically importing vulnerability findings from scanners via an integration or the API. There, every finding is given a ticket, complete with rating, risk, remediation information, any relevant compliance framework data, found instances, etc. Teams can then pick those tickets up, export them to work management tooling, and mark them as remediated to request a retest. The platform shows metrics like:
- Vulnerabilities per asset
- Reoccurrences (when findings reoccur)
- Criticality / Severity
- Time-to-fix / Average time findings are open
- Types of risks present
- Assets impacted
This gives you easy access to data to track if risks are remediated, to show proof of how long it takes to remediate, and to prioritize vulnerabilities based on severity. In addition, with reoccurrence and findings per asset, you can get insight into how and when risks occur to look for root-cause fixes.
Streamlined DORA Cybersecurity Compliance
Stay audit ready, with transparent data, traceable work, and visible planning and scheduling for your cybersecurity program. Cyver Core allows you to log all ongoing scans, pentests, red team assignments, etc., on a single platform, so you can quickly see what’s been done and how.
- Dashboards mean your pentest and cybersecurity program is available, at a glance, complete with number of tests run, when, and results.
- Auditor roles mean auditors can log in to see compliance data without having to go through different platforms and tools – simplifying your audit process.
- Pentest report generation means you can easily generate new reports using different templates to meet the needs of different stakeholders, such as management summaries and executive level reports for internal C-suite stakeholders, vulnerability reports without details for auditors, etc.
- With credit systems, you can assign teams pentesting credits to ensure they run enough pentests throughout the year. Each time the team runs an assessment, scan, or code review, making it easy to ensure teams are keeping up with obligations.
In addition, with report generation tooling, you can easily generate compliance-ready reports without overwhelming resources or redirecting cybersecurity talent away from value-added tasks like testing.
That simplifies audit and annual proofs, because your audit trail, reporting, and proof of pentesting are all in one place.
Would you like to learn more about how a pentest management platform like Cyver Core can help you simplify, organize, and meet your pentest and cybersecurity obligations for DORA? Contact us for a consultation and a platform demo.