In this in-depth episode of The Third Party Risk Institute Podcast, we take a hard look at how the Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA) is fundamentally changing expectations for third-party risk, cybersecurity, procurement, compliance, and governance teams.

Rather than treating DORA as another regulatory checkbox, this episode focuses on what DORA will expose inside most third-party risk management programs including gaps that many organizations are not yet prepared to defend during regulatory inspections.

This conversation goes beyond regulatory summaries. We break down the organizational, operational, and technical impact of DORA, and explain why many existing TPRM programs will struggle to meet the “prove it” resilience standard regulators are now enforcing.

Together, we unpack:

• Why DORA is not just an ICT regulation, but a resilience mandate
• How third-party risk programs are being stress-tested for the first time
• Where vendor oversight, incident response, and exit strategies fall short
• Why policies alone will no longer satisfy regulators
• How real third-party failures explain why DORA exists

We also examine real-world third-party incidents and outages to show how concentration risk, fourth-party exposure, and untested recovery assumptions can quickly become systemic failures.

What We Cover in This Episode

• What DORA will expose in most third-party risk management programs
• Why operational resilience is replacing checkbox compliance
• How DORA reshapes expectations for vendor oversight and governance
• The most common gaps in third-party risk, incident response, and resilience testing
• Why dependency mapping and critical service identification are failing points
• How vendor concentration and fourth-party risk are coming under scrutiny
• What regulators expect organizations to prove, not just document
• Why exit strategies and substitutability matter more than ever
• Lessons from real-world third-party outages and cyber incidents
• How organizations should prepare for DORA inspections and audits

This Episode Is Essential For:

• Chief Risk Officers (CROs) and Operational Resilience Leaders
• Third-Party Risk and Vendor Risk Management Professionals
• Cybersecurity and ICT Risk Teams
• Procurement and Strategic Sourcing Leaders
• Compliance and Governance Professionals
• Executives accountable for regulatory readiness and resilience

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