The financial services industry is facing a new regulation: the Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA). DORA is a European Union (EU) regulation whose goal is to strengthen the information and communication technology (ICT) security of financial entities and ensure the financial sector’s resilience in the event of severe operational disruptions.

One of the key requirements of DORA is that financial institutions must have a robust risk management framework in place. This framework must identify, assess, and mitigate ICT risks. MySQL Enterprise Edition can help organizations achieve DORA compliance by providing features that can help to identify, assess, and mitigate ICT risks.

MySQL Enterprise Edition has released many features over the years to help organizations address attacks from different threat vectors. These features include:

  • Fine-grained Auditing
  • Transparent Data Encryption
  • User authentication
  • Advanced encryption
  • Database Firewall

These features can help to protect organizations from a variety of threats, including data breaches, unauthorized access, and SQL injection attacks.

MySQL Enterprise Edition also includes a number of features that can help organizations to detect security incidents. These features include:

  • MySQL Enterprise Audit
  • MySQL Enterprise Telemetry

These features can help organizations to monitor their databases for suspicious activity and identify security incidents early on.

In the event of a security incident, MySQL Enterprise Edition can help organizations to recover quickly and efficiently. MySQL Enterprise Edition includes features such as:

  • High availability
  • Disaster recovery
  • Backups

These features help organizations minimize the downtime caused by security incidents and get their business back up and running as soon as possible. 

Finally, there are detailed, tested, and free guidelines that are applicable to DORA, specifically the

This blog provided a high-level overview of MySQL Enterprise features that can assist organizations in achieving DORA compliance.

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Conclusion


MySQL Enterprise Edition is a comprehensive security solution that can help organizations achieve DORA compliance. By using MySQL Enterprise Edition, organizations can identify, assess, and mitigate Information and Communications Technology (ICT) risks, protect their data from unauthorized access, and recover quickly from security incidents.


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