EU DORA Training and Competence Framework Building Human-Centred Digital Operational Resilience Across Roles, Governance, and Ecosystems

Most see the Digital Operational Resilience Act (EU DORA) as a dry technical rule about systems and ICT risk. The truth? It’s a profound shift: a regulation about people, accountability, and real competence.
Digital systems don’t lead, decide, or face regulators in a crisis – you do. DORA places explicit responsibility on boards, senior leaders, operational teams, auditors, and third-party providers. And that responsibility only works when those people are expertly trained.
This is the first comprehensive, human-centred framework for mastering DORA training.
Discover why training is a core regulatory control- not a checkbox. Learn how to design role-specific courses, assess and sustain competence, and weave training into governance, risk management, audits, and regulatory scrutiny.
Go beyond generic advice to tackle real challenges: scaling across global enterprises, training boards and executives, managing third-party skills, preparing for extreme crises, defending decisions in audits or litigation, and aligning with ISO 27001, GDPR, and NIS2.
Written clearly and practically for boards, executives, risk professionals, auditors, and regulators, this book turns DORA training from obligation into competitive strength.
EU DORA will be enforced through people. This book makes yours exceptional.

Book Reviews:

This book fills a gap that many professionals working with EU DORA have felt but rarely articulated. While much has been written about systems, controls, and technical measures, very little guidance exists on how training and competence actually underpin digital operational resilience. This work places people, accountability, and learning at the centre of the regulation in a way that feels both obvious and overdue.
What distinguishes this book is its ability to translate EU DORA into a structured competence framework without reducing the regulation to checklists or slogans. It explains how roles, responsibilities, and governance expectations determine who must be trained, to what depth, and how that competence must be demonstrated and maintained over time. For readers involved in implementation, this clarity is invaluable.
The book’s treatment of training as a regulatory control rather than an administrative task is particularly strong. It reframes learning as an essential element of governance, audit readiness, and supervisory credibility. Once this perspective is understood, it becomes difficult to return to generic awareness programmes or superficial compliance approaches.
There is a clear sense that this framework has been shaped by real organisational experience. The explanations reflect the realities of audits, regulatory dialogue, third-party oversight, and crisis situations. The book addresses the practical questions that arise only when EU DORA is taken seriously as an operational and governance obligation.
Despite the depth of its subject matter, the writing remains accessible. Complex regulatory and technical concepts are explained in plain language without diluting their meaning. This makes the book usable across roles, from board members and senior executives to auditors, risk professionals, and training leaders.
What also stands out is the long-term perspective. Rather than treating DORA training as a one-off compliance exercise, the book presents it as a living system that evolves with organisations, technologies, and regulatory expectations. This approach aligns closely with how resilience must function in practice.
Readers quickly realise that this is not a book to be read once and set aside. It becomes a reference for designing training programmes, structuring role-based learning paths, preparing supervisory discussions, and demonstrating competence under scrutiny. Its value increases as it is applied.
Owning this book signals a level of seriousness about EU DORA that goes beyond surface understanding. It reflects an engagement with the regulation at the level of governance, accountability, and human capability where real resilience is created.
For those responsible for training, oversight, or assurance under EU DORA, this book establishes a new baseline for how competence and learning should be approached. It does not merely explain the regulation. It provides a framework for making it work.