Strengthen your critical suppliers

Beyond the contract: strengthen your critical suppliers with testing and backup plans

DORA compliance requires more than contractual clauses. It demands a real capacity to ensure business continuity, even in the event of a failure of a critical ICT supplier. Here's how to move from theory to practice.

1. DORA requires tested exit plans

• For each critical supplier, an exit strategy must be defined

• This strategy must be tested: simulations, disruption scenarios

2. Integrate suppliers into your resilience tests

• Include your providers in your crisis management exercises

• Test the availability of emergency contacts, SLAs in the event of an incident

• Verify their ability to transmit logs, respond to a security breach

3. Implement effective backup plans

• Map critical services and their alternatives

• Prepare migration plans in case of contractual or technical disruption

• Integrate these options into the information register

4. Galink, your resilience partner

• Visualization of critical dependencies

• Centralized storage of exit plans and continuity documents

• Supplier maturity scoring in terms of resilience

Conclusion

Being compliant with DORA is not just about having a good contract. It’s about proving that you are ready. With Galink, you turn your contractual commitments into real operational guarantees.