EU’s DORA: Let NetBrain Power Your Compliance Plan

What is DORA? How does it affect my network?

The core of DORA is explained across 5 pillars every qualified entity must implement for their ICT infrastructure including computer networks:

1. ICT Risk Management
   Critical ICT systems and assets must be mapped, identified, and classified. Dependencies must be documented, and risk assessments must be conducted continuously.
2. Incident Reporting
   All ICT-related incidents must be monitored, logged, classified, and reported.
3. Digital Operational Resilience Testing
   ICT systems must be tested regularly for security and resilience to identify ‌vulnerabilities.
4. Third-party Risk Management
   Entities subject to DORA must also ensure their third-party ICT providers also comply with DORA including cloud, communication, Internet, and managed service providers (CSP, ISP, MSP).
5. Information Sharing
   Entities must take lessons learned from ICT-related incidents and their root causes, share internally and externally, and implement proactive measures to prevent future similar incidents.

How NetBrain Automation Assures DORA Compliance

NetBrain is designed with networking best practices and standards in mind with the goal of helping organizations traverse them without losing flexibility and agility.

No-code automation is tailor-made to maintain compliance with complex, overarching network regulations like DORA regardless of your ICT teams’ experience with coding or scripting.

Let’s review the pillars of DORA once more and see how the NetBrain Next-Gen platform specifically addresses the challenges of DORA:

1. ICT Risk Management
   NetBrain was designed to make network assessments a real-time on-going strategy. ICT teams can—without coding or scripting—digitize all of the diagnosis steps and actions needed to identify and document any number of capacity, security, resilience and performance requirements and assesses each continuously across the network. This is possible because NetBrain auto-discovers the entire network regardless of vendor or technology, edge to cloud, with every critical device identified and categorized and all expected behaviors and dependencies between assets, systems, and providers documented and then assessed.
2. Incident reporting
   Incident reporting and management is crucial to DORA. Accordingly, NetBrain integrates with ITSM and incident tools like ServiceNow, Solarwinds, and Splunk to insert network automation into every incident response workflow. NetBrain captures every step as well as the expected results in the root cause analysis and presents them in easy to navigate summary dashboards with complete drill-down navigation. These “incident specific” dashboards make it easier to share status and maintain institutional knowledge internally and externally.
3. Digital operational resilience testing
   NetBrain and our continuous assessment dashboards provide visual confirmation of the status of all failover, backup and resilience components to assure proper operation. NetBrain continuously assess every aspect of the resilience architecture to confirm each component is ready and able to provide service when needed. NetBrain continuous assessment directly supports your high availability, fault tolerance, and resilience designs of your hybrid network infrastructure.
4. Third-party risk management
   NetBrain’s built-in deep visibility of your network’s devices, topology, traffic flow and expected bahaviors (including the public cloud based services) means you always have a real-time view of the network’s capabilities. NetBrain detects when errant conditions which may not have manifested into incidents, but which increase the risk to production service delivery.
5. Information sharing
   NetBrain makes it easy to consume continuous assessment results as easy to read and navigate active summary dashboards that visualize the health of your network and its ability to delivery business services. ICT teams can drill down from any automation dashboard to view intelligent assessment of network threats and vulnerabilities and view dynamic topology maps of the affected areas. What’s more, any new troubleshooting or diagnosis steps taken during an incident are memorialized as automation dashboards and made available to subsequent ICT support staff when investigating future incidents.

With its comprehensive outage prevention capabilities, NetBrain can power your DORA compliance plan by continuous assessing thousands of points that contribute to production service delivery. Utilizing our powerful no code automation platform, ICT teams can not only meet any current regulatory standard but also add new requirements and operational goals to the automation workflow. NetBrain assures the operational resiliency of what’s likely one of the largest single investments within the entire organization: the network.

NetBrain is the secret sauce ICT teams can quickly leverage to bring their business in compliance with DORA in an efficient, precise, and forward-looking manner. Later this month, NetBrain will host a webinar on DORA compliance with hands-on demos of the platform in action. Be sure to sign up and take the opportunity to have your DORA questions answered by our NetBrain experts.