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DORA-Ready Identity Audits for Financial Entities

DORA-Ready Identity Audits for Financial Entities

The Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA) mandates that financial entities must regularly test and audit their ICT security.

An "Identity Audit" under DORA is not just checking a box. It is a deep dive into the resilience of your access controls.

What Auditors Will Look For

  1. Access Governance: Can you prove exactly who has access to your core banking systems right now? Can you show the history of that access for the last year?
  2. Privileged Access Management (PAM): How do you protect admin credentials? Are they vaulted? rotated? monitored?
  3. Segregation of Duties (SoD): Can the same person initiate and approve a wire transfer? (The answer must be no).

Step 1: The User Access Review (UAR)

  • Automate It: Manual spreadsheets don't scale. Use a tool to generate access lists for every application.
  • Contextual Reviews: Don't just show a manager a list of groups like `GRP_FIN_RW`. Show them "This user can Read and Write to the Finance Database."
  • Revocation Loops: If a manager says "Revoke," it must happen automatically. A manual ticket that sits in a queue for 2 weeks is a compliance failure.

Step 2: The Machine Identity Audit

DORA explicitly covers "ICT Assets," which includes machine identities.

  • Service Accounts: Audit every service account. Who owns it? When was the key last rotated?
  • Certificates: Check for expiring SSL/TLS certificates that could cause an outage (an availability risk under DORA).

Step 3: Testing Resilience (The "R" in DORA)

  • Red Teaming: Simulate an identity-based attack. Can your SOC detect a Golden Ticket attack? Can they spot a token theft?
  • Recovery: If your Active Directory is corrupted, how long does it take to restore it? (This is a critical DORA metric).

How Cydenti Helps

Cydenti simplifies the DORA audit process:

  1. Continuous Compliance: We don't just audit once a year. We monitor your posture 24/7.
  2. One-Click Reports: Generate the "Who has access to what" report instantly for auditors.
  3. SoD Checks: Automatically flag toxic combinations of permissions across different apps (e.g., Admin in AWS + Admin in Salesforce).

Conclusion

A DORA-ready audit is about proving control. It shifts the conversation from "We think we are secure" to "Here is the evidence that we are resilient."