Author: Adam Boeckmann | April 2025
As financial institutions across the EU prepare to meet the requirements of the Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA), one challenge rises to the top: gaining and maintaining visibility into the complex web of ICT assets, third-party services, and interdependencies that power their operations.
DORA is clear—resilience is no longer a bolt-on feature. It’s a regulatory obligation. And at the heart of compliance is visibility: knowing what systems are in play, how they interact, where risk exists, and how to respond when disruption strikes.
At Plixer, we’ve built our platform around those needs.
Why Visibility Is the Foundation of DORA Compliance
DORA demands that financial entities—from banks and insurers to fintech platforms and their third-party ICT providers—be able to detect, withstand, and recover from operational disruptions. To do that, organizations need far more than perimeter defense or static inventories. They need live, dynamic visibility across:
- ICT asset interconnections
- Service dependencies
- Third-party traffic patterns
- Anomalous behavior
- Security events and incident timelines
Plixer One Enterprise delivers on all of this by combining Network Detection and Response (NDR) with Network Performance Monitoring and Diagnostics (NPMD) in a unified platform.
The result? Organizations can continuously observe, analyze, and respond across even the most complex hybrid and multi-cloud environments.
Mapping Dependencies and Managing Risk
A key focus of DORA—particularly Article 8—is the ability to map ICT dependencies and understand how digital services interconnect. Plixer provides real-time telemetry and flow-based visualizations that expose host-to-host, subnet-to-application, and third-party-to-internal-system relationships.
This ensures that shadow systems are not left unmonitored, service paths are properly documented, and audits or risk assessments are no longer based on assumptions. With Plixer, organizations can build live dependency maps and maintain continuously updated ICT asset inventories, enabling a proactive approach to compliance and risk management.
From Detection to Response—At Machine Speed
DORA’s Article 10 and Articles 15–20 emphasize proactive threat detection, fast incident response, and detailed forensics. Plixer enhances operational resilience by combining AI- and ML-driven anomaly detection with advanced lateral movement analysis. This allows organizations to spot behavioral shifts across the network and identify unauthorized east-west traffic or internal reconnaissance activity before it escalates. It also supports segmentation validation to help ensure internal boundaries remain secure and delivers deep forensic analysis with full timeline reconstruction of incidents across environments.
These capabilities ensure teams don’t just react to incidents after the fact—they see them coming.
Supporting Compliance, Reporting, and Oversight
Whether it’s reporting an incident under Articles 19–20, supporting an audit, or demonstrating resilience to internal stakeholders, Plixer provides the reporting infrastructure needed to stay compliant and in control.
Key features include customizable dashboards aligned with DORA requirements, scheduled compliance reports, and long-term data retention for historical analysis and proof of monitoring effectiveness. Plixer also integrates with leading SIEM and SOAR platforms to deliver enriched threat context and enable automated response workflows.
Built for Hybrid. Ready for the Future.
Plixer One is purpose-built to support visibility and threat detection in complex network environments—on-prem, cloud, virtualized, or hybrid. That includes monitoring third-party service traffic, cloud APIs, remote users, and everything in between.
This flexible architecture ensures your organization is not just DORA-ready, but built for long-term operational resilience.
Final Thoughts
The DORA deadline is near—but compliance is only the beginning. The real goal is resilience. Plixer gives security, compliance, and IT operations teams the intelligence they need to reduce risk, secure digital infrastructure, and meet evolving regulatory requirements with confidence.
If you’re working toward DORA readiness and need a visibility strategy that actually scales, we’re here to help.
Explore how Plixer One can support your DORA compliance journey by booking a demo.
