The Digital Operational Resilience Act requires financial entities to continuously monitor cyber threats, detect credential exposures, and share threat intelligence. SOS Intelligence delivers the capabilities you need to meet those obligations, deployed in days, not months.
DORA introduces five pillars of operational resilience for financial entities. Our platform directly supports all five. Here is how each requirement maps to the capabilities already built into SOS Intelligence.
Article 9 requires financial entities to implement mechanisms to promptly detect anomalous activities, including network performance issues, ICT-related incidents, and potential material single points of failure. SOS Intelligence monitors 500+ dark web sources continuously and fires flash alerts within minutes of a new exposure, giving your security team early warning of threats before they become incidents.
Article 10 mandates robust ICT business continuity policies with rapid response capabilities. When exposed credentials or data leaks are detected on the dark web, SOS Intelligence alerts your team immediately, enabling containment before threat actors can weaponise the data. Time-to-detection is measured in minutes, not weeks.
Article 13 requires financial entities to gather information on vulnerabilities and cyber threats, analyse their likely impact, and continuously monitor technological developments. SOS Intelligence provides the ongoing threat intelligence feed that satisfies this obligation: indexed dark web data covering credential dumps, ransomware leak sites, and threat actor activity relevant to your organisation.
DORA requires structured classification and timely reporting of major ICT-related incidents. SOS Intelligence flash alerts include severity classification, source attribution, and timestamped evidence trails that support your incident reporting workflows. Exportable reports provide the documentation regulators expect.
DORA mandates regular resilience testing, including threat-led penetration testing (TLPT) aligned with the TIBER-EU framework. SOS Intelligence threat data (indicators of compromise, attack patterns, threat actor TTPs) provides the external intelligence feed that informs realistic, evidence-based testing scenarios grounded in actual dark web activity targeting your sector.
DORA holds financial entities accountable for the resilience of their critical ICT third-party providers, requiring ongoing monitoring of supply-chain risk and concentration risk. SOS Intelligence extends your visibility beyond your own perimeter: monitor your key suppliers, vendors and partners for breached credentials, data leaks and dark web mentions, and detect copycat domains impersonating your supply chain, so a third-party compromise reaches your dashboard before it reaches your business.
Article 45 encourages financial entities to participate in trusted information-sharing communities, exchanging indicators of compromise, tactics, techniques, and procedures, and cybersecurity alerts. SOS Intelligence data is natively exportable in STIX/TAXII format, ready to feed into FS-ISAC, MISP, or any industry sharing framework your organisation participates in.
If your organisation operates in financial services within the EU (or serves EU clients), DORA almost certainly applies to you. Here are the most common entity types we support.
Retail and commercial banks, building societies, and credit unions
Brokerages, asset managers, wealth managers, and trading firms
Insurance undertakings, intermediaries, and reinsurance companies
Payment institutions, e-money issuers, and account information service providers
Institutions for occupational retirement provisions (IORPs)
Crypto-asset service providers and issuers of asset-referenced tokens
Trade repositories, CCPs, and central securities depositories
Critical ICT third-party providers designated by regulators under DORA
Every capability in SOS Intelligence was designed to address real-world cyber risk. Here is what you get from day one.
Continuous automated scanning across 500+ dark web sources, including Tor marketplaces, closed hacker forums, Telegram groups, paste sites, and ransomware leak sites. Alerts fire within minutes.
Art. 9 · Art. 13
On-demand search engine for the indexed dark web. Query domains, emails, IPs, and keywords across billions of records. Build threat assessments and investigate exposures in real time.
Art. 13 · Art. 24
Automated, severity-classified notifications via email and webhook the moment your domains, credentials, or keywords appear in dark web sources. Configurable thresholds and digest options.
Art. 9 · Art. 17
Generate branded PDF reports with severity breakdowns, source attribution, and trend analysis. Purpose-built for board-level reporting, regulatory evidence, and QBR presentations.
Art. 13 · Art. 17
Export threat data in STIX 2.1 format. Push to MISP, FS-ISAC, or any TAXII-compatible sharing community. Full RESTful API with sandbox environment for integration testing.
Art. 45 · Art. 24
Continuous scanning of breach databases and credential dumps for your domains. Detect exposed employee and customer credentials before threat actors use them for account takeover.
Art. 9 · Art. 10
Regulation (EU) 2022/2554 published and enters into force, beginning the two-year implementation period for all EU financial entities.
All financial entities must be fully compliant. No transitional period. Regulatory enforcement begins immediately.
National competent authorities must submit Registers of Information on ICT third-party arrangements to the European Supervisory Authorities.
Regulators actively auditing compliance. ESAs have confirmed no grace period. The European Commission has opened infringement proceedings against Member States with incomplete transposition.
Most financial entities lack the specialist infrastructure to monitor the dark web effectively. Here is how SOS Intelligence compares to building an in-house capability.
| Capability | In-House Build | SOS Intelligence |
|---|---|---|
| Time to deploy | 6 to 12 months | 48 hours |
| Dark web source coverage | Limited (10 to 50 sources) | 500+ sources, continuously updated |
| Tor infrastructure & crawlers | Must build and maintain | ✓ Fully managed |
| Credential exposure monitoring | Manual or partial | ✓ Automated, real-time |
| STIX/TAXII export for sharing | Custom development | ✓ Native support |
| MISP integration | Custom development | ✓ Built-in |
| Regulatory-ready reporting | Manual compilation | ✓ One-click PDF generation |
| Ongoing maintenance | Dedicated team required | ✓ Fully managed SaaS |
| Annual cost estimate | £150k to £300k+ (staff + infra) | From £4,788/year |
Book a DORA readiness demo. We will run a live dark web scan on your domain, map findings to DORA requirements, and show you exactly how SOS Intelligence fills the gaps in your compliance posture.