DORA-ready identity controls for financial entities.
The Digital Operational Resilience Act has applied to EU financial entities since January 2025 — and identity is where most of its ICT risk-management articles land. Monofor enforces strong authentication, disciplined privileged access, and controlled third-party access, then produces the evidence your supervisors expect.
Where DORA meets identity
DORA (Regulation (EU) 2022/2554) requires banks, insurers, investment firms, crypto-asset providers, and their critical ICT third parties to manage ICT risk with documented, testable controls. Article 9 obliges firms to use strong authentication mechanisms and policies that limit access to ICT assets to what is legitimate and approved; Article 10 expects anomalous activity to be detected; and the incident-reporting chapter assumes you can reconstruct who did what, where, when.
Supervisors do not audit intentions — they audit evidence. That makes the identity layer the fastest place to demonstrate DORA progress: enforce MFA everywhere, put privileged sessions under recording, time-bound vendor access, and export the audit trail.
Article to control, mapped.
The identity-related obligations that recur across DORA’s ICT risk-management chapter, and the Monofor capability that answers each.
Firms must implement strong authentication mechanisms based on relevant standards.
Monosign enforces MFA on every login — TOTP, push, and phishing-resistant FIDO2 passkeys — with adaptive step-up driven by risk signals such as new devices or unusual locations.
Monosign MFAPolicies must restrict physical and logical access to ICT assets to approved, role-appropriate use.
Role-based access via SSO, joiner-mover-leaver automation that revokes access on role change, and access reviews that certify entitlements on the cadence your policy defines.
Monosync GovernanceElevated access to critical systems must be minimized, monitored, and reconstructable.
Monopam vaults privileged credentials, grants just-in-time elevation behind approvals, and records every session as video plus keystroke transcript — the reconstruction DORA incident reporting assumes.
MonopamVendor and service-provider access is squarely in scope, including for critical ICT third parties.
External partners get time-bound, recorded, approval-gated access through the same privileged gateway as employees — no standing VPN accounts, no shared credentials.
External & partner accessFirms need mechanisms to promptly detect anomalous activities and single points of failure.
Authentication anomalies — new devices, impossible travel, brute-force patterns, dormant accounts waking up — surface as signals and feed your SIEM through structured log export.
MonosignResilience expectations extend to where and how critical systems run.
Monofor deploys self-hosted in your own infrastructure or cloud tenant — identity does not become another external dependency in your DORA register unless you choose SaaS.
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Common questions
- Does DORA apply to us?
- DORA applies to most EU financial entities — credit institutions, payment and e-money institutions, investment firms, insurers, crypto-asset service providers — and to ICT third-party providers serving them. Non-EU firms serving EU financial customers are often pulled in contractually. Confirm scope with your legal team.
- Does deploying Monofor make us DORA compliant?
- No product alone achieves DORA compliance — the regulation spans governance, testing, incident reporting, and contracts. Monofor implements the identity-related ICT risk controls and produces auditable evidence for them, which is a significant portion of the Article 9–10 obligations.
- How does Monofor help with DORA incident reporting?
- Incident reports need a reconstruction of what happened. Tamper-evident authentication logs, entitlement change history, and privileged session recordings with keystroke transcripts give your incident team the who-what-when within minutes rather than days.
- We are an ICT provider to banks. Does this help us?
- Yes. Critical ICT third parties face oversight themselves, and their bank customers must control third-party access. Running your own access through recorded, time-bound sessions makes you a materially easier vendor to keep — and to audit.
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