Arckit Eu Dora

⚠️ Community-contributed command — not part of the officially-maintained ArcKit baseline. Output should be reviewed by qualified DPO / RSSI / legal counsel before reliance. Citations to ANSSI / CNIL / EU regulations may lag the current text — verify against the source.

You are helping an enterprise architect generate a DORA Compliance Assessment (Digital Operational Resilience Act, EU Regulation 2022/2554) for a financial sector entity operating in the European Union. DORA has applied since 17 January 2025 and establishes a unified framework for ICT risk management, incident reporting, resilience testing, and third-party risk management in the financial sector.

User Input

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Instructions

Note: Before generating, scan projects/ for existing project directories. For each project, list all ARC-*.md artifacts, check external/ for reference documents, and check 000-global/ for cross-project policies. If no external docs exist but they would improve output, ask the user.

Step 0: Read existing artifacts from the project context

MANDATORY (warn if missing):

• REQ (Requirements) — Extract: ICT system requirements, availability/resilience requirements (NFR-xxx), third-party integration requirements (INT-xxx), regulatory compliance requirements
  • If missing: proceed with user-provided entity description; warn that full ICT risk assessment requires defined requirements

RECOMMENDED (read if available, note if missing):

• RISK (Risk Register) — Extract: ICT risks, third-party risks, concentration risks, operational resilience risks
• SECD (Secure by Design) — Extract: existing ICT security controls, maturity assessment, current incident response capability
• PRIN (Architecture Principles, 000-global) — Extract: ICT risk tolerance, redundancy principles, vendor diversification policy

OPTIONAL (read if available, skip silently):

• NIS2 (NIS2 Assessment) — Extract: overlapping security obligations for financial entities designated as OSE
• SECNUM (SecNumCloud Assessment) — Extract: cloud provider sovereignty assessment for French financial entities

Step 0b: Read external documents and policies

• Read any external documents in external/ — extract ACPR/AMF correspondence, existing ICT risk management framework documentation, third-party registers, previous audit reports, existing BCP/DR documentation
• Read any global policies in 000-global/policies/ — extract ICT risk policy, incident response policy, supplier management policy, BCM policy
• If pre-existing ICT risk documentation found, use it to pre-populate maturity assessment.

Step 1: Identify or Create Project

Identify the target project from the hook context. If the project doesn't exist:

1. Use Glob to list projects/*/ directories and find the highest NNN-* number
2. Calculate the next number (zero-padded to 3 digits)
3. Slugify the project name
4. Use the Write tool to create projects/{NNN}-{slug}/README.md
5. Set PROJECT_ID and PROJECT_PATH

Step 2: Read Source Artifacts

Read all documents from Step 0. Identify:

• Entity type (bank, payment institution, insurance, investment firm, crypto-asset, CCP, etc.)
• Competent authority (ACPR / AMF / ECB / other)
• Size (microenterprise eligibility for simplified regime)
• Cloud providers in use (potential critical ITPP)
• Existing ICT risk management maturity level

Step 3: DORA Template Reading

Read the template (with user override support):

• First, check if .arckit/templates-custom/eu-dora-template.md exists in the project root
• If found: Read the user's customized template
• If not found: Read .arckit/templates/eu-dora-template.md
• Then read .arckit/templates/_partials/RENDERING.md and resolve the <!-- DOC-CONTROL-HEADER --> marker in the template before writing. Do not hand-write the Document Control table: the partial RENDERING.md selects is the only source of the 14 standard fields and of the classification ladder.

Step 4: Entity Scoping (Article 2)

Before generating the assessment, determine entity scope:

DORA covers: credit institutions, payment institutions, electronic money institutions, investment firms, crypto-asset service providers (MiCA), insurance/reinsurance undertakings (if > 250 employees), insurance intermediaries (if > 250 employees), pension funds (if > 15 members), CCPs, trading venues, ICT third-party service providers

Proportionality: microenterprises (< 10 employees, < €2M turnover) and some small entities may benefit from simplified ICT risk framework (Article 16).

Show entity scoping before generating the full assessment.

Step 5: Generate DORA Assessment

CRITICAL: Use the Write tool to create the assessment document.

1. Detect version: Check for existing ARC-{PROJECT_ID}-DORA-v*.md files:

   • No existing file → VERSION="1.0"
   • Existing file → minor increment if refreshed, major if scope changed

2. Auto-populate Document Control:

   • Document ID: ARC-{PROJECT_ID}-DORA-v{VERSION}
   • Status: DRAFT
   • Created Date: {current_date}
   • Next Review Date: {current_date + 12 months}
   • Entity Type: from user input
   • Competent Authority: ACPR/AMF/ECB/other

3. Section 1: Entity Scoping

   • In-scope entity type (Article 2 table)
   • Competent authority
   • Proportionality assessment (microenterprise / simplified regime eligibility)

4. Executive Summary Maturity Table

   • Five pillars with current maturity (L1–L5) vs required level vs gap:
     • ICT Risk Management
     • Incident Reporting (4h/72h/1m)
     • Resilience Testing
     • Third-Party Management
     • Concentration Risk

5. Section 2: ICT Risk Management Framework (Articles 5–16)

   • All ten framework requirements with status and gaps
   • Extract existing controls from SECD/RISK artifacts
   • Simplified framework eligibility flag if microenterprise

6. Section 3: ICT Incident Management (Articles 17–23)

   • Major incident classification criteria (clients affected, transaction volume, duration, reputational impact, economic impact)
   • Three-stage reporting timeline:
     • Initial notification: 4 hours after major classification (max 24h from detection) → ACPR/AMF
     • Intermediate: 72 hours after initial
     • Final: 1 month after resolution
   • Reporting readiness checklist
   • Voluntary cyber threat reporting process

7. Section 4: Digital Operational Resilience Testing (Articles 24–27)

   • Annual testing requirements: vulnerability assessments, open-source analysis, network security, gap analysis, source code review (if applicable), scenario-based tests
   • TLPT (Threat-Led Penetration Testing) every 3 years for significant entities
   • TIBER-EU framework requirements
   • Testing status per requirement

8. Section 5: ICT Third-Party Risk Management (Articles 28–44)

   • Register of ICT arrangements: inventory all ICT service contracts with criticality assessment
   • Mandatory contract provisions (Article 30): SLAs, notice periods, data location, audit rights, termination rights, BCP provisions
   • Critical ITPP (CITPP) obligations if using ESA-designated critical providers
   • Concentration risk assessment: single-provider over-reliance, exit strategies
   • Sub-contractors and supply chain risks

9. Section 6: French Supervisory Context

   • ACPR role (banks, insurance, payment institutions)
   • AMF role (investment firms, CCPs, trading venues)
   • Banque de France (systemic risk)
   • ANSSI (cybersecurity technical input + SecNumCloud)
   • Pre-DORA ACPR ICT requirements supersession

10. Section 7: Gap Analysis and Roadmap

    • Pillar-by-pillar gap table with priority and owner
    • Note DORA has applied since 17 January 2025 — all gaps are current violations

Before writing the file, read .arckit/references/quality-checklist.md and verify all Common Checks pass.

Write the document to:

projects/{project_id}/ARC-{PROJECT_ID}-DORA-v{VERSION}.md

Step 6: Summary Output

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✅ DORA Assessment Generated
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📄 Document: projects/{project_id}/ARC-{PROJECT_ID}-DORA-v{VERSION}.md
📋 Document ID: {document_id}
📅 Assessment Date: {date}
⚡ DORA Applied: 17 January 2025

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🏦 Entity Scoping
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Entity Type: {type}
Competent Authority: {ACPR / AMF / other}
Simplified Regime: {Eligible / Not eligible}

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📊 Maturity Summary
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| Pillar                        | Current | Required | Gap  |
|-------------------------------|---------|----------|------|
| ICT Risk Management           | L{N}    | L3+      | {gap}|
| Incident Reporting (4h/72h)   | L{N}    | L4       | {gap}|
| Resilience Testing            | L{N}    | L3       | {gap}|
| Third-Party Management        | L{N}    | L3+      | {gap}|
| Concentration Risk            | L{N}    | L2       | {gap}|

Total Gaps: {N} ({N} high priority)

Next steps:
1. {If OSE designation: Run $arckit-eu-nis2 for NIS2 overlap}
2. Run $arckit-risk to register DORA gaps
3. Run $arckit-secure for ICT security controls
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Important Notes

• DORA is live: DORA has applied since 17 January 2025. All identified gaps represent current non-compliance. There is no transition period remaining.
• 4-hour reporting: The initial notification to ACPR/AMF must be within 4 hours of classifying an incident as "major" (max 24h from detection). This requires 24/7 monitoring and rapid classification capability.
• Concentration risk is explicit: DORA explicitly requires assessment of over-reliance on single ICT providers. Multi-cloud or multi-provider strategies must be documented and justified.
• TLPT requires regulatory agreement: For significant entities, TLPT scope must be agreed with ACPR/AMF before testing. Allow 3–6 months lead time.
• Use Write Tool: DORA assessments are comprehensive and cover 5 major pillars. Always use the Write tool.

Key References

Note for reviewers: DORA (Digital Operational Resilience Act) applies to the entire EU financial sector — banks, insurers, investment firms, payment institutions, crypto-asset service providers, and their critical ICT third-party providers. It is enforced by the European Supervisory Authorities (EBA, EIOPA, ESMA) jointly. In France, ACPR (banking/insurance) and AMF (markets) are the national competent authorities. DORA's TLPT (Threat-Led Penetration Testing) requires testing against real threat scenarios — more rigorous than standard penetration testing.

Success Criteria

• ✅ Assessment document created at projects/{project_id}/ARC-{PROJECT_ID}-DORA-v{VERSION}.md
• ✅ Entity type and competent authority determined
• ✅ Simplified regime eligibility assessed
• ✅ ICT risk management framework assessed (Articles 5–16)
• ✅ Major incident classification criteria defined
• ✅ Three-stage reporting timeline (4h/72h/1m) assessed
• ✅ Annual testing programme assessed
• ✅ TLPT requirements assessed for significant entities
• ✅ ICT third-party register documented
• ✅ Mandatory contract provisions (Article 30) checklist completed
• ✅ Concentration risk assessed with exit strategies
• ✅ French supervisory context (ACPR/AMF/ANSSI) documented
• ✅ Maturity assessment (L1–L5) for all five pillars
• ✅ Gap analysis with priority actions generated

Example Usage

$arckit-eu-dora Assess DORA compliance for a French payment institution (€200M revenue, 300 staff) migrating core payment processing to a cloud-native architecture using AWS and a French SecNumCloud-qualified secondary provider, ACPR-supervised

$arckit-eu-dora DORA scoping for 001 — French insurance company (€1.5B premiums) with no formal ICT risk framework, ACPR-supervised, using SAP RISE (cloud) as core system

$arckit-eu-dora DORA for a Belgian CCP with operations in FR and NL, AMF/FSMA co-supervised, considering a new critical cloud dependency on a single provider

Suggested Next Steps

After completing this command, consider running:

• $arckit-eu-nis2 -- Map overlapping NIS2 cybersecurity obligations for financial entities designated as OSE (when Entity is also subject to NIS2 as an operator of essential services)
• $arckit-risk -- Integrate DORA ICT risk findings and third-party concentration risks into the risk register
• $arckit-secure -- Implement technical security controls addressing DORA ICT risk management requirements