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Ensure DORA Compliance with AI-Powered Requirements and Full Traceability
Strengthen operational resilience and align with the EU’s Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA) by centralizing ICT risk, incident, governance, and third-party requirements inside Azure DevOps.
Built for insurers, reinsurers, and financial institutions needing traceability, audit readiness, and automated compliance evidence.
Why DORA Changes How Insurance & Financial Firms Manage ICT
Stricter ICT Risk Governance
DORA requires financial entities to maintain governed, documented ICT risk frameworks tied to development and change management activities.
Mandatory Incident Reporting & Traceability
All major incidents must be documented, assessed, and traced across systems, controls, and remediations.
Increased Third-Party Oversight
Firms must track third-party risk, SLAs, and responsibilities—requiring structured documentation and evidence.
Testing, Continuity & Resilience Requirements
DORA obligates firms to run resilience tests and prove traceable control coverage.
Modern Requirements: Your DORA Control Hub Inside Azure DevOps
Unlike standalone ALM platforms, Modern Requirements extends Azure DevOps into a complete DORA compliance workspace.
DORA Articles & RTS/ITS
Import and structure regulatory requirements
Risk, Scenarios & Impact Assessments
Comprehensive risk modeling and analysis.
Policies & Controls
Connect governance frameworks to requirements.
Resilience Tests (incl. TLPT)
Track and document all testing activities
ICT Services & Assets
Map your complete technology landscape
Third-Party Providers & Dependencies
Complete vendor and dependency management
1,000+ Insurance Leaders Rely on Us
DORA Pain Points → Modern Requirements Solutions
Pain Point #1
“We can’t map DORA obligations to our controls and requirements.”
MR Solution: Traceability + Baseline + Version Control + Smart Docs
- Import DORA Articles
- Connect to epics, features, policies and controls
- Generate end-to-end traceability matrices
Pain Point #2
“We struggle to link ICT risks, business services, and resilience tests.”
MR Solution: End-to-End DevOps Relationships
- Model services, risks, and assets as work items
- Use 360° Impact Assessment for change analysis
- Link resilience testing results directly to DORA Articles
Pain Point #3
“We spend too much time manually writing, reviewing, and updating DORA requirements and documentation.”
MR Solution: AI-Powered Requirements and Documentation
- Generate DORA-aligned requirements, controls, and test cases
- Accelerate review with AI quality checks
- Generate SOPs, diagrams, and structured documents instantly
AI-Powered Automation for DORA Compliance
AI Requirement Generation
Create clear, compliant requirements from DORA articles.
Risk Prediction
Identify downstream impacts of ICT changes.
Gap Analysis
Detect missing controls or inconsistencies.
Auto-Summaries
Generate incident reports, post-mortems, and compliance narratives.
Frequently Asked Questions
1. What is the Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA)?
The Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA) is an EU regulation requiring financial institutions and insurers to ensure their ICT systems can withstand, respond to, and recover from disruptions. It covers ICT risk management, incident reporting, operational resilience testing, ICT third-party oversight, and consistent documentation practices. DORA becomes enforceable on 17 January 2025.
2. Does DORA apply to insurance companies?
Yes. DORA explicitly applies to insurance undertakings, reinsurance companies, intermediaries, and captive insurers operating in the EU. If your organization writes EU policies, runs EU branches, or supports EU financial clients, DORA applies — even if your headquarters are outside the EU.
3. What does DORA require insurers to do?
Insurance firms must:
- Establish a comprehensive ICT risk management framework
- Maintain full traceability across ICT assets, risks, controls, requirements, and tests
- Implement a structured incident classification and reporting process
- Run regular resilience tests, including TLPT for critical functions
- Maintain a Register of Information (RoI) for all ICT systems and vendors
- Oversee and monitor all ICT third-party providers
- Produce audit-ready documentation for regulators
Modern Requirements supports all documentation, mapping, requirement, testing, and traceability needs.
4. How does Modern Requirements help with DORA compliance?
Modern Requirements creates a unified compliance workspace inside Azure DevOps, allowing insurers to:
- Import DORA Articles and build structured control frameworks
- Map policies, controls, requirements, and tests with traceability
- Document ICT services, risks, assets, and dependencies
- Link resilience testing and incident records to DORA obligations
- Generate audit-ready reports, dashboards, and baselines
Automate requirements, documents, and test cases using built-in AI
5. What DORA obligations can be automated with AI?
Modern Requirements uses intelligent automation to support:
- AI-generated DORA requirements and test cases
- Automated quality checks to catch ambiguity and gaps
- AI-written SOPs, playbooks, and policy drafts
- Instant diagrams of ICT dependencies and service relationships
- Summaries of RTS/ITS sections for risk and audit teams
This removes significant manual effort and reduces human error.
6. How does Modern Requirements handle incident reporting?
You can capture and link ICT incidents, classifications, remediation tasks, and lessons learned as connected work items. Incidents can be mapped directly to DORA Articles and controls, ensuring complete traceability and review readiness.
7. Can Modern Requirements support TLPT and resilience testing?
Yes. You can document:
- TLPT scope, preconditions, and testing procedures
- Resilience test scenarios, outcomes, and remediation actions
- Links between tests, risks, assets, and regulatory obligations
- Impact assessments before and after changes
All testing evidence is captured with full audit trails.
8. How does Modern Requirements support third-party and critical ICT provider oversight?
You can maintain a DORA-aligned Register of Information containing:
- Third-party providers
- Services they support
- SLAs, contracts, exit strategies
- Resilience testing results
- ICT dependencies and criticality assessments
This makes DORA’s third-party oversight requirements actionable and traceable.
9. We currently use spreadsheets and SharePoint. Do we need a platform?
For DORA, yes. Regulators expect a structured, traceable, repeatable compliance model. Spreadsheets cannot provide:
- Version control
- End-to-end traceability
- Audit trails
- Complex mapping (Articles ➜ controls ➜ tests)
- Automated reporting
- Collaboration across risk, ICT, compliance, and audit teams
10. Does Modern Requirements help with DORA gap analysis?
Yes. You can:
- Import DORA Articles
- Map internal policies and controls
- Identify missing links or testing coverage
- Compare baselines over time
- Build remediation workflows
This gives you a clear, measurable view of DORA readiness.
11. Is Modern Requirements suitable for large and mid-size insurers?
Absolutely. The platform is used by:
- Global insurers and reinsurers
- Mid-size insurance groups
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How We Power Through For Your Projects
"Zions selected Modern Requirements4 DevOps as a solution uniquely positioned to fill our need, while also adding additional requirements functionality. We quickly began migrating content from DOORS Next Generation to the new platform. We collaborated weekly, and as a result implemented a seamless migration with additional requirements visualization features."
"We had already selected Azure DevOps as our ALM solution so Modern Requirements seemed like a natural fit. After further investigation, the solution was a great fit for the Systems, Electronics, Mechanical, Software and other Engineering teams. During the 30-day trial alone, we successfully imported existing requirements, linked them together, undertook a team review with audit history, and produced an easy-to-understand report compliant with our QMS."
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Book a demo to see how Documentation, Reviews, and Baselines support DORA compliance, strengthen operational resilience, reduce ICT-related risks, and help insurance teams deliver projects with consistent momentum.
