Article 8Identification
1. As part of the ICT risk management framework referred to in Article 6(1), financial entities shall identify, classify and adequately document all ICT supported business functions, roles and responsibilities, the information assets and ICT assets supporting those functions, and their roles and dependencies in relation to ICT risk. Financial entities shall review as needed, and at least yearly, the adequacy of this classification and of any relevant documentation.
2. Financial entities shall, on a continuous basis, identify all sources of ICT risk, in particular the risk exposure to and from other financial entities, and assess cyber threats and ICT vulnerabilities relevant to their ICT supported business functions, information assets and ICT assets. Financial entities shall review on a regular basis, and at least yearly, the risk scenarios impacting them.
3. Financial entities, other than microenterprises, shall perform a risk assessment upon each major change in the network and information system infrastructure, in the processes or procedures affecting their ICT supported business functions, information assets or ICT assets.
4. Financial entities shall identify all information assets and ICT assets, including those on remote sites, network resources and hardware equipment, and shall map those considered critical. They shall map the configuration of the information assets and ICT assets and the links and interdependencies between the different information assets and ICT assets.
5. Financial entities shall identify and document all processes that are dependent on ICT third-party service providers, and shall identify interconnections with ICT third-party service providers that provide services that support critical or important functions.
6. For the purposes of paragraphs 1, 4 and 5, financial entities shall maintain relevant inventories and update them periodically and every time any major change as referred to in paragraph 3 occurs.
7. Financial entities, other than microenterprises, shall on a regular basis, and at least yearly, conduct a specific ICT risk assessment on all legacy ICT systems and, in any case before and after connecting technologies, applications or systems.
DORA, the European Union regulation on digital operational resilience, Article 8
Know what you have before protecting it. Entities must identify, classify and document all ICT-supported business functions, roles and responsibilities, the information and ICT assets supporting them, and their roles and dependencies in relation to ICT risk — reviewing the adequacy of that classification at least yearly.
They must continuously identify all sources of ICT risk, in particular exposure to and from other financial entities, assess relevant cyber threats and vulnerabilities, and review risk scenarios at least yearly. Entities other than microenterprises must perform a risk assessment on each major change to the network and information system infrastructure or to processes affecting ICT-supported functions or assets.
All information and ICT assets must be identified, including those on remote sites, network resources and hardware, with the critical ones mapped, along with configuration and the links and interdependencies between assets. Processes dependent on ICT third-party service providers must be identified and documented, with interconnections identified where the services support critical or important functions. Inventories must be maintained and updated periodically and on every major change.
Entities other than microenterprises must also conduct a specific ICT risk assessment on all legacy ICT systems at least yearly, and in any case before and after connecting technologies, applications or systems.
What is in the packs for this
Each one helps with this requirement.
DORA Article-to-Control Mapping LibraryExcel
in DORA ICT Risk & Resilience Readiness
Requirement Library rows RQ-12, RQ-13: each gives the provision in plain words, what an entity must be able to show and the documents that help.
DORA Readiness Self-AssessmentExcel
in DORA ICT Risk & Resilience Readiness
Readiness items RM-04 rate how ready the entity is for the provision, with the evidence behind each rating and the gap.
ICT Risk Management Framework Document TemplateWord
in DORA ICT Risk & Resilience Readiness
Statement FW-17 on functions, assets and dependencies.
Scan Coverage & Asset Scope RegisterExcel
in Vulnerability & Exposure Management
The scope, criticality and inventory columns hold the asset inventory that its reference list ties to identifying and documenting ICT assets and keeping the inventory current.
Risk Identification & Assessment Operating ProcedureWord
in Information Security Risk Management
Step 22 reviews the asset and service list yearly, Stage 1 identifies risk sources continuously and reviews scenarios yearly, and Stage 8 assesses risk on major change.
in Information Security Risk Management
The regulated-entity instruction sets a risk assessment on each major change to systems, processes or procedures.
Information Asset RegisterExcel
in Information Classification & Handling
Holds identified and classified information assets, including those at remote sites and suppliers, reviewed at least yearly, with a change log that keeps the inventory updated.
End-of-Life Software & Unsupported System RegisterExcel
in Patch Management
The Register and Reviews sheets list legacy systems and assess their risk on a regular basis.
Text: Regulation (EU) 2022/2554, as published in the Official Journal of the European Union, from EUR-Lex. Only the Official Journal text is authentic.