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USA DORA-ready: How to enhance digital resilience & compliance
The 17th January 2025 deadline is fast approaching and many companies are working towards DORA readiness. Each organisation is preparing in its own way, adopting tailored practices, solutions and approaches to meet DORA obligations. Many expect to continue enhancing their digital resilience through 2025, seeking more efficient, effective ways to manage risks and compliance.
To support this journey we are joined by expert guest speakers from leading solution providers, who can help your organisation streamline DORA compliance, enhance digital resilience, and manage third-party risks efficiently.
In this recording you will find out how you can:
- Prioritise DORA readiness activities: The Disruption House will show how technology providers to the FS industry can quickly identify red-flag DORA compliance issues and develop an actionable change strategy
- Enhance third-party risk oversight: Risk Ledger will demonstrate how you can gain better visibility and control over supplier risks for stronger supply chain management
- Automate security incident and response: Cado Security will demonstrate how you can improve and automate security incident investigation and response procedures
- Streamline compliance reporting: Authority Software will show you how to simplify your compliance process with powerful validation and automation tools that streamline the reporting of information, saving time and minimising errors
Speakers
Mark Hendry
Advisory consulting
Mark leads our cyber security practice. He advises clients on all aspects of information and cyber security risk including; strategic improvement and optimisation, regulatory change, mergers, acquisitions and integrations, incident investigation, response, and recovery.
Mark has extensive knowledge and experience of developing and implementing regulatory change and compliance programmes, as well as handling regulatory issues (NIS, GDPR, DPA, etc.)
Mike East
Mike East has 15 years of sales leadership in the cybersecurity industry. With a career spanning 30 years in high-tech, Mike has led specialist sales teams within multinational corporations and successfully driven startups into multi-million dollar enterprises from the ground up. Prior to joining Cado Security, Mike held key leadership positions at renowned cyber security companies including Symantec, Mandiant, FireEye, CrowdStrike, Duo Security, and Menlo Security.
Rick Gouveia
Rick leads business development at Authority Software, specialising in XBRL and XML reporting across a range of global, supranational, and national regulatory frameworks. He advises clients on optimising their regulatory reporting processes, ensuring compliance with evolving standards, and implementing robust solutions for complex reporting requirements. With deep knowledge of regulatory frameworks and hands-on experience in integrating with diverse data sources, Rick supports clients in navigating the intricacies of compliance reporting across many regulations and jurisdictions.
Tom Egan
Tom leads the technology strategy for the Disruption House and has 25+ years’ experience in technology for investment banks, the wider financial industry, enterprise systems design and programme implementation. The Disruption House currently supplies a specialist operational resilience readiness assessment among its enterprise readiness and supply chain products. This diagnostic tool details any specific red flags versus legislation and highlights gaps to close, accelerating operational risk workstreams for financial technology companies. The delivery report enables firms to future proof ahead of up-coming legislation and gauge specific actionable areas to improve risk management.
Emily Hodges
Risk Ledger
As COO of Risk Ledger, Emily Hodges leads the company’s mission to secure global supply chains by revolutionizing third-party risk management. She ensures the team operates effectively, prioritizing the right initiatives to drive growth and product innovation. Emily is dedicated to fostering collaboration across the industry, enabling organisations of all sizes to strengthen their security. Her role focuses on aligning strategy, operations, and outreach to make Risk Ledger a leader in supply chain security while helping businesses prevent and respond to cyber threats.
