As we’ve discussed in previous posts, the Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA) introduces new regulatory standards for financial institutions to protect against digital disruptions and cyber threats. Preparing for these regulations requires both strategic planning and the right technological tools. In this final article, we explore how HYCU’s solutions, combined with Sourcesense’s expertise in Atlassian tooling, can support your organisation in achieving DORA compliance and ensuring long-term operational resilience.
Introducing HYCU and Sourcesense, A Powerful Partnership for Data Protection and Compliance
HYCU, a leading provider of multi-cloud backup and recovery services, offers comprehensive solutions aligned with DORA’s requirements. However, implementing these solutions effectively requires the right partner to help integrate them seamlessly into your existing operations. That’s where Sourcesense comes in.
As an Atlassian Platinum Solution Partner, Sourcesense specialises in helping financial institutions leverage Atlassian’s suite of tools—such as Jira, Confluence, Jira Service Management, and more—to build a robust operational framework that meets DORA’s requirements. Paired with HYCU’s backup and recovery solutions, Sourcesense provides the expertise needed to manage risk, incident reporting, and compliance from end to end.
Enhancing Cybersecurity with HYCU and Atlassian Tooling
Strengthening cybersecurity is one of the core principles of DORA, and Sourcesense, through Atlassian tooling, ensures that all security protocols are streamlined and automated.
Atlassian Guard: With Atlassian Guard, Sourcesense helps you implement Single Sign-On (SSO), multi-factor authentication (MFA), and detailed user access monitoring. This ensures that your systems are secure and user activities are tracked, which is essential for DORA compliance.
Jira for Incident Tracking: Using Jira, Sourcesense enables you to automate incident reporting workflows, ensuring that all potential threats are quickly identified, reported, and resolved. This complements HYCU’s backup and disaster recovery capabilities by ensuring that incidents are managed swiftly and data is protected at all times.
By integrating Atlassian with HYCU’s backup solutions, Sourcesense ensures that user access and backup management are centrally controlled, providing a secure and compliant environment.
Streamlining Incident Management and Response with Jira and Confluence
Incident reporting and management are critical under DORA, and financial institutions need a reliable system for tracking and resolving issues. With Jira Service Management and Confluence, Sourcesense helps you build a comprehensive incident management process that integrates seamlessly with HYCU’s data protection services:
Jira for Incident Reporting: Sourcesense sets up customised workflows in Jira to ensure that every cyber incident is logged, tracked, and resolved in a timely manner. These workflows can be automated to ensure that incident reports are generated based on pre-defined triggers.
Confluence for Documentation: Use Confluence as a central repository for all incident reports and audits. Sourcesense will help you structure your documentation, making it easy for regulators to access comprehensive reports when needed.
Real-time Alerts: Jira can be integrated with HYCU’s monitoring tools to trigger real-time alerts when an incident occurs. This ensures quick action and resolution, minimising the risk of business disruption.
Managing Third-Party Vendor Risk through Jira and Atlassian Access
DORA emphasises the importance of monitoring third-party vendors. Through Jira, Confluence, and Atlassian Guard, Sourcesense helps financial institutions implement a rigorous vendor management process that ensures compliance at every step.
Vendor Risk Management: Sourcesense configures Jira to track vendor performance and risk levels, ensuring that all third-party providers meet the same stringent security and resilience standards required under DORA.
Access Control and Monitoring: Atlassian Guard provides centralised user management, allowing you to monitor and control who has access to sensitive systems and data. This is critical when working with external vendors, ensuring that their access is controlled and auditable.
Third-Party Compliance Tracking: With Confluence, you can store and regularly update vendor compliance documentation, while Jira helps track compliance tasks and deadlines. Sourcesense integrates these systems with HYCU’s third-party oversight capabilities to create a comprehensive solution for vendor management.
Ensuring Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery with HYCU and Atlassian Tooling
A critical aspect of DORA is having a strong business continuity and disaster recovery (BCDR) plan. Sourcesense helps your organisation use Atlassian tools to build, test, and execute these plans in conjunction with HYCU’s robust disaster recovery solutions.
Disaster Recovery Workflows: Using Jira, Sourcesense helps you create disaster recovery workflows that are easy to execute during an emergency. These workflows can include automatic backup checks with HYCU to ensure data integrity and quick recovery.
Testing and Simulations: DORA requires regular testing of your business continuity plans. Sourcesense helps your team use Jira to schedule and track resilience tests, ensuring that your organisation is always prepared for disruptions.
Real-time Reporting: Sourcesense integrates Confluence and Jira to provide detailed, real-time reports on the status of your business continuity plans, making it easy to demonstrate compliance with DORA’s disaster recovery requirements.
Governance and Accountability with Atlassian and HYCU
Under DORA, senior management is responsible for overseeing digital resilience. With Atlassian tools and HYCU’s comprehensive reporting, Sourcesense ensures that your leadership has full visibility into your organisation’s digital operations.
Custom Dashboards for Senior Management: Sourcesense sets up custom Jira and Confluence dashboards that provide leadership with real-time insights into your data protection and compliance status.
Audit Logs and Compliance Reporting: With Atlassian, Sourcesense ensures that detailed audit logs are maintained for all system activities, which can then be integrated into HYCU’s reporting tools to provide comprehensive compliance reports. These reports ensure that senior management can easily demonstrate adherence to DORA’s requirements.
Ensuring DORA Compliance with HYCU and Sourcesense Internationals Atlassian Expertise
As the January 2025 DORA compliance deadline approaches, financial institutions must ensure their digital resilience strategies are airtight. HYCU’s multi-cloud backup and recovery solutions, combined with Sourcesense’s deep expertise in Atlassian tooling, provide a powerful combination that ensures your organisation is fully prepared for DORA.
From enhancing cybersecurity and managing third-party risk to streamlining incident reporting and disaster recovery, Sourcesense integrates Atlassian’s suite of tools to create a comprehensive, compliant, and resilient environment for financial institutions.
Get in touch with Sourcesense International today to learn how our Atlassian expertise, paired with HYCU’s cutting-edge solutions, can help you achieve DORA compliance and protect your organisation from future digital threats.