DORA Penetration Testing Services
Test financial applications, APIs, cloud, and infrastructure against realistic attack paths. Get validated findings, remediation guidance, and evidence for your DORA resilience-testing programme.
DORA penetration testing for financial entities
Focus testing on the systems, access paths, and dependencies that could disrupt critical or important functions or expose sensitive financial data.
Test critical systems against realistic attacks
Assess authentication, authorization, business logic, network exposure, cloud controls, segmentation, and recovery-sensitive dependencies.
Follow critical services across your environment
Scope applications, APIs, cloud services, identity systems, infrastructure, and authorized third-party integrations supporting critical or important functions.
Track findings through remediation
Assign findings, document fixes, and keep available validation evidence organized for security, risk, and compliance teams.
When DORA requires threat-led penetration testing
TLPT is an advanced, intelligence-led exercise for financial entities designated by their competent authority—not a requirement for every organization.
Article 26: advanced testing through TLPT
Designated entities perform TLPT at least every three years unless their competent authority sets a different frequency.
Article 27: tester requirements
Formal TLPT uses testers who meet DORA’s independence, capability, and professional-standard requirements, with regulatory coordination built into the process.
Where penetration testing supports DORA
Penetration testing can support DORA’s ICT risk-management and resilience-testing programme. It does not establish compliance or replace required TLPT for designated entities.
Requirement
How Blaze can support it
Art. 6
ICT risk management framework
Provides scoped technical evidence to help identify and prioritize ICT risk across tested systems and applications.
Art. 24
Digital operational resilience testing programme
Supports a risk-based testing programme with penetration testing, vulnerability validation, and documented remediation.
Art. 25
Testing of ICT tools and systems
Covers agreed DORA-recognized methods, including network, application, source-code, scenario-based, and penetration testing where appropriate.
Art. 26
Threat-led penetration testing (TLPT)
Supports TLPT scoping and red-team execution for designated entities within the authority-led testing process.
Art. 27
Requirements for TLPT testers
Provides independent testing teams with relevant penetration-testing, red-team, and threat-intelligence experience, subject to engagement scope.
Art. 28
ICT third-party risk management
Tests authorized third-party integrations, cloud services, and exposed dependencies within the agreed scope.
Clear evidence for resilience and compliance teams
A DORA pentest should help engineers fix risk and give reviewers a clear record of what was tested.
DORA testing context
Connect findings to the relevant resilience-testing programme without presenting the pentest as a complete compliance assessment.
Remediation workspace
Track findings, owners, fixes, and available validation evidence in one place.
Shareable reporting
Share scope, methodology, findings, and remediation status with security, risk, audit, and oversight teams.
CREST-accredited provider
Work with a named testing team, reviewed findings, and direct access throughout the engagement.
Reusable technical evidence
Use relevant findings in other assurance work where scope and requirements align.
Fix validation
Confirm whether agreed fixes address the original finding when validation is included.
Reuse relevant findings
Some findings may support other assurance work when scope and requirements align. Each framework still has its own assessment obligations.
ISO 27001
Use relevant findings in ISO 27001 risk, vulnerability-management, and control-improvement work.
NIS2
Support cyber-risk and resilience work for essential or important entities where scope overlaps.
Frequently asked questions
Services that support DORA resilience
Complement DORA penetration testing with broader security validation, adversary simulation, and programme guidance.
Penetration Testing
Test web applications, APIs, mobile, cloud, and networks for exploitable weaknesses and clear remediation priorities.
Adversary Simulation
Test detection, response, and containment against realistic attack paths through authorized red-team or purple-team exercises.
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