DORA Compliance and Purple Teaming for a Financial Institution with a Global Presence

Use Case

Cyber security

The Challenge

A financial institution with an international presence needed to assess the effectiveness of its monitoring tools and incident response processes, with a specific focus on container-based environments and microservices architectures. The challenge was to coordinate and evaluate the performance of two different external SOC service providers within the DORA regulatory framework.

The Solution

A collaborative Purple Teaming approach was implemented, based on real-world attack scenarios derived from industry threat intelligence. HUMANATIVA planned and executed targeted tests to measure the effectiveness of the security solutions in use and verify the SOC’s readiness to handle sophisticated threats in cloud-native environments.

The Benefits

The organization obtained an accurate assessment of its security posture, bringing it into compliance with the requirements of the DORA regulation. Collaboration between the defense and attack testing teams led to an immediate improvement in detection capabilities and greater operational efficiency among SOC providers.

Humanativa’s role

HUMANATIVA served as a strategic partner for security validation, bringing advanced expertise in the financial and regulatory sectors. Its unique value lay in its ability to orchestrate complex tests that integrated technology, processes, and third-party vendors into a single evaluation framework.