Let’s discuss How Microsoft Entra Enhances Identity Security and Resilience to Help you Meet DORA Requirements. To support financial institutions, Microsoft complying with DORA by providing security solutions through Microsoft Entra and other cloud-hosted services actively.
As you know that, Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA) is a regulation introduced by the European Union to strengthen the digital resilience of financial entities. Organization can use this facility to enhance their security and recovery capabilities.
Digital Operational Resilience Act is designed to achieve a high level of digital operational resilience across the industry. By combined with DORA Microsoft helps organizations to improve their security posture, risk management, and incident response capabilities.
By combining threat protection, response, and recoverability with extensive monitoring, automated rerouting, failover, and recovery capabilities, Microsoft Entra provides high availability and performance for customers.
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How Microsoft Entra Enhances Identity Security and Resilience to Help you Meet DORA Requirements
Microsoft has published Microsoft Entra customer considerations under DORA on Microsoft Learn to recognizing the vital role of identity and access management in operational resilience and the industry’s need for support in navigating the complex requirements of DORA.
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Benefits of Digital Operational Resilience Act
Regulated entities can incorporate Microsoft Entra capabilities into their frameworks, policies, and plans to align with specific requirements under DORA, offering several key benefits for organizations. The following table shows the benefits.
| Benefits | Details |
|---|---|
| Provides Enhanced risk management | Entra establish a robust internal governance and control framework. |
| Operational resilience | Microsoft Entra’s geographically distributed architecture combines extensive monitoring, automated rerouting, failover, and recovery capabilities to deliver continuous high availability and performance. |
| Incident management, business continuity, and recovery | Microsoft Entra helps organizations detect, investigate, and remediate identity-based risks, plus offers recoverability best practices and incident response playbooks |
| Improved security | By incorporating Microsoft Entra controls, organizations can enhance their security posture. |
Support of Operational Resilience from Microsoft Entra
Many Microsoft Entra capabilities can help support operational resilience, for customer workloads running in both the cloud and on-premises. There are many customer considerations included on this. It includes Passwordless credentials, multifactor authentication, Microsoft Entra ID Protection etc. The following are the details.
| Considerations | Details |
|---|---|
| Passwordless credentials and multifactor authentication | Microsoft entra has many authentication features like phish-resistant MFA methods such as Windows Hello for Business, passkeys (including FIDO2 security keys and device-bound passkeys in Microsoft Authenticator) and certificate-based authentication. |
| Privileged Identity Management (PIM) | It enables organizations to automatically detect, investigate, and remediate identity-based risks, for both human and workload identities. |
| Microsoft Entra ID Governance | It automatically ensures that the right people have the right access to the right resources at the right time, across both cloud and on-premises resources. |
| The Microsoft Entra backup authentication system | It enables organizations to increase authentication resilience if there’s an outage. |
| Continuous access evaluation | It allows Microsoft Entra ID to issue longer-lived tokens while enabling applications to revoke access and force reauthentication only when needed. The net result of this pattern is fewer calls to acquire tokens, which means that the end-to-end flow is more resilient. |
| Microsoft Entra ID | Microsoft Entra ID recoverability features including soft delete and Microsoft Graph APIs enable organizations to regularly export the current state of supported Microsoft Entra ID configurations and recover from certain deletion and misconfiguration scenarios. |
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Anoop C Nair has been a Microsoft MVP for 10 consecutive years from 2015 onwards. He is a Workplace Solution Architect with more than 22+ years of experience in Workplace technologies. He is a Blogger, Speaker, and Local User Group Community leader. His primary focus is on Device Management technologies like SCCM and Intune. He writes about technologies like Intune, SCCM, Windows, Cloud PC, Windows, Entra, Microsoft Security, Career, etc.