DORA is now in force, and the first full year of implementation (2025) revealed what’s working and where firms are still struggling. In this episode, Third Party Risk Institute breaks down the current state of DORA in 2026 with global takeaways for third-party risk, ICT risk management, incident reporting, resilience testing, and oversight of critical technology providers.

We cover what organizations across financial services, tech, healthcare, and consulting did in 2025 to meet expectations, what best practices are emerging, and how risk professionals are adapting through stronger governance, better vendor visibility, contract upgrades, and more realistic testing programs.

If you work in TPRM / vendor risk, operational resilience, cyber risk, procurement, compliance, or audit, this is a practical, high-level briefing you can apply immediately.

Topics include:

• DORA pillars explained: ICT risk, incident reporting, testing, third-party risk, info sharing
• What “good” looks like in 2026 (and what still breaks under pressure)
• Critical vendor oversight and subcontractor / fourth-party visibility
• Common implementation gaps and how teams are closing them
• Tools, operating models, and skills risk professionals are leaning on

If you are in DORA or are responsible for DORA, you can now get Certified via Certified DORA Practitioner (CDP) live stream training from Third Party Risk Institute. More details here: https://thirdpartyriskinstitute.com/dora/

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2025 reshaped how organizations view third-party cyber risk. In this deep-dive episode, we analyze the real incidents that caused operational shutdowns across healthcare, aviation, manufacturing, and financial services.

You’ll hear how:

• The Change Healthcare ransomware attack exposed up to 190 million records and triggered a multi-billion-dollar disruption
• Jaguar Land Rover suffered a six-week global production halt due to a vendor cyber incident
• Airlines faced airport gridlock after a single IT supplier failure
• Cloud misconfigurations leaked millions of healthcare records
• Stolen credentials and MFA bypass techniques accelerated account takeovers
• CLOP ransomware exploited zero-day vulnerabilities in file transfer and ERP systems
• Regulators enforced DORA and NIS2 accountability for vendor risk
• AI-driven cyber attacks are emerging as the next threat wave

This episode connects cyber risk directly to business continuity, operational resilience, regulatory compliance, and vendor governance, critical insights for risk leaders, CISOs, compliance teams, procurement professionals, and third-party risk practitioners.

🎧 Listen to understand why vendor ecosystems now represent the single largest source of enterprise risk and what organizations must prioritize going into 2026.

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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

If your intrested in learning about DORA and getting certified check out our upcoming live class: https://thirdpartyriskinstitute.com/dora/

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