Name: DORA and Cyber Resilience for Insurance Institutions
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DORA and Cyber Resilience for Insurance Institutions

A practical course for professionals and executives in the insurance industry who need a structured and actionable understanding of the Digital Operational Resilience Act and its implications for insurers and insurance groups. The agenda follows the core DORA pillars, including ICT risk management, incident handling and reporting, digital operational resilience testing, ICT third party risk, and the EU oversight framework for critical ICT third party providers, while framing them in an insurance specific context. DORA applies across the financial sector, including insurance undertakings, and EIOPA provides sector specific supervisory framing for implementation.

What will you learn?

You will understand the main DORA requirements, terminology, interrelations, and obligations in a way that supports both leadership decisions and practical implementation in insurance institutions. You will connect the regulation to governance, ICT risk management, incident reporting, resilience testing, third party oversight, and the broader goal of building digital operational resilience. You will also examine practical implementation strategies, common challenges, and the role of leadership in building a cybersecurity culture that extends across the organization.

Understand the structure, terminology, and insurance relevant scope of DORA
Connect ICT risk management, incident handling, testing, and third party risk into one operating model
Evaluate implementation approaches, best practices, and governance choices for insurers
Strengthen leadership driven cybersecurity culture and organization wide resilience awareness

Requirements:

Suitable for professionals, managers, and executives in the insurance industry
Basic familiarity with compliance, risk, IT, operations, or cybersecurity is helpful
Interest in resilience, governance, outsourcing, and supervisory expectations

Course Outline*:

*We customize the course outline and content to your specific needs and relevant use cases.

Module 1: Introduction to DORA in the insurance sector

Basic definition, purpose, and strategic intent of DORA
Why digital operational resilience matters for insurers and insurance groups
Background of the regulation and expected implementation benefits
Core terminology and how DORA fits into the broader resilience discussion

Module 2: Scope, structure, and interrelations

Which insurance entities and related service relationships fall within scope
Overview of DORA’s structure and key obligation areas
Main objectives and how the requirements relate to one another
Interrelations with governance, operational resilience, and supervisory expectations

Module 3: Governance, accountability, and leadership

Management body responsibilities and internal accountability expectations
Leadership’s role in shaping resilience priorities and decision making
Building a cybersecurity culture that reaches beyond specialist teams
Aligning policies, committees, reporting lines, and ownership

Module 4: Integrating DORA into existing insurance structures

Embedding DORA into governance, risk, compliance, and information security structures
Mapping DORA requirements to existing control frameworks and operating models
Avoiding duplication by aligning resilience work with current processes
Identifying practical implementation entry points for insurers of different sizes

Module 5: ICT risk management under DORA

Core expectations for identifying, protecting, detecting, responding, and recovering
Connecting ICT risk management to business critical insurance processes
Structuring risk ownership, control selection, and escalation paths
Translating DORA language into practical internal operating measures

Module 6: Business continuity and operational stability

Cyberattack scenarios and operational disruption risks relevant to insurers
Impact of DORA on continuity planning, crisis structures, and recovery readiness
Building an effective BCM and disaster recovery approach
Practical recommendations for continuity, emergency management, and resilience alignment

Module 7: Cloud, outsourcing, and ICT dependencies

Fundamentals of cloud use in regulated insurance environments
Cloud security and resilience considerations in the DORA context
Managing external ICT dependencies with stronger ownership and oversight
Practical implications of outsourcing and concentration risk for insurers

Module 8: Incident management and reporting obligations

Detecting, classifying, escalating, and managing ICT related incidents
Internal reporting flows from detection to management visibility
Regulatory reporting expectations and common implementation issues
Improving consistency, timeliness, and decision usefulness in incident handling

Module 9: Digital operational resilience testing

Purpose and structure of resilience testing under DORA
Basic and more advanced testing approaches in an insurance context
Connecting test results to remediation, assurance, and management oversight
Organizing scope, evidence, and follow through in a proportionate way

Module 10: Third party risk and the EU oversight framework

ICT third party risk management expectations for insurance institutions
Identifying critical or important functions and related provider exposure
Contracting, monitoring, and exit thinking in a resilience context
EU oversight of critical ICT third party providers and what it means for insurers

Module 11: Implementation challenges, best practices, and change management

Common DORA implementation challenges across different types of insurance institutions
Practical sequencing across governance, controls, reporting, testing, and third party management
Success factors and best practices for sustainable implementation
Change management approaches that support adoption across the enterprise

Module 12: Long term operating model and resilience culture

Bringing governance, risk, incidents, testing, and third party oversight into one model
Making awareness and training part of resilience rather than a separate compliance task
Strengthening leadership visibility and enterprise wide ownership
Building a practical roadmap for ongoing DORA readiness and resilience maturity

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