DORA on one page — now interactive¶
The oversight post ended with DORA on one page: a table matching each Level 1 article to the Level 2 standard that makes it concrete. A table is a decent start. But the DORA package isn't really a table — it's a graph. Fourteen legal acts, 215 articles, and a web of implements-links and cross-references that a table flattens out. So I built the version you can actually navigate.
The problem it solves¶
DORA isn't one law. It's a base regulation, an amending directive, and a dozen technical standards and delegated acts — each published separately, each cross-referring to the others. The hard part was never reading any single act. It's holding the whole thing in your head: which RTS fills in which article, what implements what, and where a cross-reference actually leads before you've opened four PDFs to find out.
DORA Navigator puts the entire package into one page you can move around in.
It's a risk framework, not a reading list¶
Step back and DORA is one thing: the EU's answer to a systemic risk. Financial services now run on ICT and on a handful of shared third-party providers, so an outage or a cyberattack isn't one firm's problem — it's a threat to financial stability. That is the risk the regulation exists to mitigate, and it's why DORA reads best from a risk perspective rather than as a compliance checklist.
DORA's move is to make operational-resilience risk something you manage explicitly: identify it (Chapter II), classify and report it when it bites (Chapter III), test your defences against it (Chapter IV), control it across your supply chain (Chapter V), and — for the providers everyone depends on — supervise it at EU level. Every act in the package is a slice of that risk picture. The Navigator is really a map of the risk, laid out the way the regulation attacks it.
Three ways to look at the same package¶
- Network — the whole thing as one graph. DORA at the centre, the six themes branching to their acts, every article hanging off its act, with the implements links drawn in.
- Implements — a flow diagram answering "who fills in what": each DORA article on the left, connected to the standard or delegated act on the right that spells out its detail. This is the "DORA on one page" table, made visual.
- Treemap — the package as sized blocks, one per act, so you can see at a glance where the bulk of the rules sit.
Click anything — a node, a wedge, a flow — and the panel shows the underlying act or the full article text, with every cross-reference turned into a link you can follow. Search by title, keyword, or CELEX number.
How it's built¶
One self-contained HTML page. No backend, no login, no analytics, and — like the rest of this site — zero third-party requests. Nothing you click leaves your browser. The data is parsed from the official EUR-Lex texts.
The how-to and the launch link live on the DORA Navigator page; the full set of official texts stays in the DORA resource library. It's a navigation aid, not legal advice — always confirm against the primary sources before you rely on anything.