“[DORA requires] financial services to embed digital resilience on all levels of their operations, based on six pillars . It is urgent to […] get into compliance.” 1
The Digital Operational Resilience Act or DORA (in effect as of 17th January 2025) is an urgent concern for financial institutions across Europe. This regulation demands more than lip service to IT security — it sets a clear expectation: banks, insurers, investment firms, and other financial entities must “withstand, respond to, and recover from ICT-related disruptions, such as cyberattacks or system failures”.
With Collabora Online, you gain a compliant, sovereign, and resilient solution that gives you total control over your document workflows — even in the event of a disruption.
Collabora Online as Your DORA-Ready Office
Even if your organisation primarily uses a proprietary platform, Collabora Online makes the ideal complementary or fallback system. It offers a fully-featured suite for editing documents, spreadsheets, and presentations, with support for all major formats including Microsoft Office files. Its on-premises deployment ensures independence from external cloud or SaaS availability, while granular permissions, detailed audit trails, Secure View options, watermarking, and document classification tools provide robust security and control.
Aligned with DORA’s Core Pillars
DORA defines six strategic focus areas:
- ICT Risk Management
- ICT Third-Party Risk
- Digital Operational Resilience Testing
- ICT-Related Incident Management
- Information Sharing
- Governance and Oversight
Collabora Online offers real answers across all six.
1. ICT Risk Management
DORA mandates comprehensive internal frameworks to manage ICT risk. With Collabora Online, institutions can self-host their document editing environment or work with a trusted regional partner — ensuring you stay in control of updates, patching, monitoring, and logging. Unlike proprietary tools, you’re never dependent on opaque cloud infrastructure managed outside your jurisdiction.
Our code is open and fully auditable, supporting transparency and verifiability in your ICT risk strategy.
2. ICT Third-Party Risk Management
Collabora Online doesn’t lock you into a single cloud or provider. You choose how and where to deploy: in your data centre, with a local European host, or on a private cloud that meets your specific contractual and compliance needs.
That flexibility enables you to avoid unnecessary third-party exposure, and satisfy DORA’s strict criteria on contractual oversight and exit strategies for ICT service providers.
3. Digital Operational Resilience Testing
Want to test your systems under stress or simulate attacks? No problem. With on-premise deployment and full source code access, Collabora Online allows your security teams to test as rigorously as they need – including penetration testing and advanced incident simulations – without needing to involve or wait on an external vendor.
You’re free to monitor and adapt at any level of the stack – including networking, containers, infrastructure and application behaviour.
4. ICT-Related Incident Management
Collabora Online integrates cleanly with your existing monitoring tools and log aggregation systems, making it easier to identify, investigate and respond to ICT incidents. Unlike black-box SaaS products, we don’t obscure log files or restrict access to runtime behaviour. You can monitor exactly what’s happening, in real-time.
This transparency supports faster, clearer reporting to authorities, as required by DORA.
5. Information Sharing
With a fully open-source codebase and ethos, there can be no better information sharing system than Collabora Online. Collabora Online’s development is carried out transparently, in open repositories, with a robust global community and regular security disclosures. Our participation in open standards — such as ODF and WOPI — helps financial institutions stay interoperable and secure.
And because you’re not tied to a proprietary API or secret data schema, you can share threat intel and defence strategies across teams and institutions with confidence.
6. Governance and Oversight
At the heart of DORA is accountability. Collabora Online gives institutions total control over their document infrastructure — from who accesses data, to how it’s backed up or who signs off on system updates.
We’re here to support your governance model, not force you into a new one.
A Strategic Investment in Sovereignty
With increasing scrutiny on operational resilience, it’s time to build infrastructure that puts your organisation in control. Collabora Online is:
- Fully open source
- GDPR and DORA-aligned
- Cloud-agnostic and vendor-neutral
- Actively maintained with enterprise support
- Used by governments, defence organisations, and financial institutions across Europe and around the world
Get in touch to see how we can support your institution on the road to digital resilience.
