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Every DORA RTS article, mapped — both regimes

All 41 substantive articles of Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2024/1774 set against ISO/IEC 27001:2022, ISO 22301:2019 and PCI DSS v4.0.1. The full framework under DORA Article 15 and the simplified framework under Article 16, side by side, with the correspondence between them shown article by article.

41 articles 26 full framework 14 simplified 3 frameworks Free, no signup
Open the mapping What the simplified regime drops
In brief

Which half of this regulation applies to you?

Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2024/1774 is the regulatory technical standard that turns DORA's ICT risk management obligations into concrete articles. It has two operative halves, and no financial entity is subject to both.

Title II, Articles 2 to 27, is the full ICT risk management framework, adopted under DORA Article 15. Title III, Articles 28 to 41, is the simplified framework for the entities listed in DORA Article 16(1). Article 1 applies to both and makes everything proportionate to your size, risk profile and complexity.

The interesting part is the relationship between the two. Title III is not a separate regime invented from scratch — it is a compression of Title II. 7 of its articles each absorb several full-framework articles, and 3 Title II articles have no Title III counterpart at all. Those are set out below, because that is the difference people actually want to know.

Which regime you fall under is not something you can read off a public register, and this page does not tell you. It depends on your authorisation type, your size and your interconnectedness, and it is a determination to make deliberately rather than assume. What this page does is show you what each regime actually requires once you know.

Provenance

Where this mapping comes from, and who wrote it

41
substantive articles in the RTS, all reproduced here
26/14
articles in the full framework versus the simplified framework
3
full-framework articles with no counterpart in Title III
3
frameworks mapped — ISO 27001, ISO 22301, PCI DSS

The regulation is a regulator's. The mapping is ours.

This is the opposite of our NIS2 mapping page, and the difference matters. There, ENISA had published an official correlation between the NIS2 implementing regulation and nine frameworks, and our job was to reproduce it faithfully. For DORA, we have found no equivalent. Not from the European Supervisory Authorities — neither the final report on this RTS (JC 2023 86) nor the consultation paper before it (JC 2023 39) contains a standards concordance — not from ENISA, whose only mapping product is scoped to NIS2, not from any national competent authority we checked, and not from ISO, NIST or the PCI Security Standards Council. If one is published, we will say so and reconcile this page against it.

The article structure, numbering and titles on this page come directly from the published text of Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2024/1774 on EUR-Lex, parsed article by article rather than transcribed by hand. Everything in the three framework columns is NexGenio's own analysis. It carries no regulatory authority whatsoever. It carries our reasoning, which you can check against the standards and disagree with specifically.

One claim worth retiring while we are here: it is often repeated that this RTS was drafted in alignment with ISO 27001. ISO 27001 is not cited in the regulation, in the consultation paper or in the final report. The resemblance is structural — risk assessment, treatment, controls, review — and structural resemblance is a reason a mapping is possible, not evidence that one is official.

Read it as a navigation aid between documents, not as a compliance claim, and certainly not as a statement that holding any of these certificates satisfies DORA. It does not, and the gaps section says exactly where.

A claim worth being careful about

You will read that the RTS was "aligned with ISO 27001" or "based on international standards". The recitals to the RTS do refer to international standards in general terms. That is not the same as a published concordance, and we have not found one from the European Supervisory Authorities, from ENISA, from any national competent authority, or from ISO.

So where the columns below line up neatly, that is our reading of two texts that were written independently. Where they do not line up, we say so rather than force a reference into the cell.

The three frameworks, and why these three

All three columns are ours. None is a reproduction of anyone else's work.

ISO/IEC 27001:2022 ours
The information security management system standard, mapped at both management-system clause and Annex A control level. It is the framework most financial entities already hold, and it carries the largest share of the RTS — but not the continuity chapters, and not the reporting duties.
ISO 22301:2019 ours
The business continuity management system standard, mapped at clause level. ICT business continuity is an entire chapter in both halves of the RTS — Title II Chapter IV and Title III Chapter III — and the business impact analysis the regulation repeatedly relies on is a clause 8.2 artefact, not an ISO 27001 one.
PCI DSS v4.0.1 ours
The card payment security standard, mapped at the level of its twelve requirements. Read the scope caveat below before using this column: PCI DSS is a card-brand contract rather than law, and it binds you only if you handle cardholder data.

The PCI DSS column applies to some of you, not all of you

PCI DSS is not legislation. It is a contractual scheme administered by the payment card brands and enforced through acquirers. Its own applicability text is explicit that it covers entities that "store, process, or transmit cardholder data and/or sensitive authentication data, or could impact the security of" that data.

That is a completely different scoping trigger from DORA's. A card issuer, an acquiring bank, a payment institution or a processor in a card flow will be in scope of both. An investment firm, an IORP or a fund manager that never touches card data has no PCI DSS obligation at all, and for those entities the PCI column is context rather than a requirement. We have mapped it because the overlap is real for part of the sector, not because it applies across the sector.

The current version is v4.0.1, published June 2024. Version 3.2.1 was retired on 31 March 2024, and the future-dated requirements introduced in v4.0 became mandatory on 31 March 2025 — two separate dates that are frequently conflated. The standard is available from the PCI Security Standards Council document library.

The mapping

All 41 articles, across three frameworks

Grouped by the Titles and Chapters of the regulation. Start by choosing your regime — the two are alternatives, so showing one at a time is usually what you want. Each article carries its correspondence to the other regime, and each has its own anchor link so you can cite a single article.

Regime:
Show columns:

General provisionProportionality — the article that governs how every other article is readTitle I · General provision

Art. 1 Overall risk profile and complexity Both regimes

Proportionality. Everything in both Titles is read against your size, risk profile and the complexity of what you do — this is the article that makes the rest scalable.

Applies to both regimes. Title I sits above the split, so proportionality qualifies every article in Title II and Title III alike — including the ones the simplified framework already compresses.
ISO 27001 ours
Clauses4.1 Understanding the organization and its context
ISO 22301 ours
Clauses4.1 Understanding the organization and its context
PCI DSS ours
No PCI DSS equivalent — PCI DSS does not address this area

IICT security policies, procedures, protocols and toolsTitle II · Chapter I

Art. 2 General elements of ICT security policies, procedures, protocols, and tools Full

The umbrella article. Your ICT security policies must sit inside the ICT risk management framework, be approved, be reviewed, and assign owners.

Simplified framework counterpart: Art. 28, Art. 29.
ISO 27001 ours
Clauses5.2 Policy5.3 Roles, responsibilities and authorities
Annex AA.5.1 Policies for information securityA.5.2 Information security roles and responsibilitiesA.5.4 Management responsibilitiesA.5.36 Compliance with policies, rules and standards for information security
ISO 22301 ours
Clauses5.2 Policy5.3 Roles, responsibilities and authorities
PCI DSS ours
RequirementsReq 12 Support Information Security with Organizational Policies and Programs
Art. 3 ICT risk management Full

Documented ICT risk management policies and procedures, including an approved risk tolerance and the method by which ICT risk is identified and treated.

Simplified framework counterpart: Art. 28, Art. 31.
ISO 27001 ours
Clauses6.1.2 Information security risk assessment6.1.3 Information security risk treatment8.2 Information security risk assessment8.3 Information security risk treatment
Annex AA.5.7 Threat intelligence
ISO 22301 ours
Clauses6.1 Actions to address risks and opportunities8.2 Business impact analysis and risk assessment
PCI DSS ours
RequirementsReq 12 Support Information Security with Organizational Policies and Programs
Art. 4 ICT asset management policy Full

A policy for managing ICT assets, covering criticality, ownership and the treatment of assets supporting critical or important functions.

Simplified framework counterpart: Art. 30.
ISO 27001 ours
Annex AA.5.9 Inventory of information and other associated assetsA.5.10 Acceptable use of information and other associated assetsA.5.12 Classification of informationA.5.13 Labelling of information
ISO 22301 ours
Clauses8.2 Business impact analysis and risk assessment
PCI DSS ours
RequirementsReq 12 Support Information Security with Organizational Policies and Programs
Art. 5 ICT asset management procedure Full

The operating procedure behind that policy, including how you assess asset criticality and maintain records of ICT assets and their dependencies.

Simplified framework counterpart: Art. 30.
ISO 27001 ours
Annex AA.5.9 Inventory of information and other associated assetsA.5.12 Classification of informationA.5.37 Documented operating procedures
ISO 22301 ours
Clauses8.2 Business impact analysis and risk assessment
PCI DSS ours
RequirementsReq 12 Support Information Security with Organizational Policies and Programs
Art. 6 Encryption and cryptographic controls Full

A policy on encryption and cryptographic controls, including where encryption is applied at rest, in transit and in use.

Simplified framework counterpart: Art. 35.
ISO 27001 ours
Annex AA.8.24 Use of cryptography
ISO 22301 ours
No ISO 22301 equivalent — outside the scope of a business continuity management system
PCI DSS ours
RequirementsReq 3 Protect Stored Account DataReq 4 Protect Cardholder Data with Strong Cryptography During Transmission Over Open, Public Networks
Art. 7 Cryptographic key management Full

Key management across the full lifecycle — generation, renewal, storage, backup, archiving, retrieval, destruction and compromise handling.

Simplified framework counterpart: Art. 35.
ISO 27001 ours
Annex AA.8.24 Use of cryptography
ISO 22301 ours
No ISO 22301 equivalent — outside the scope of a business continuity management system
PCI DSS ours
RequirementsReq 3 Protect Stored Account Data
Art. 8 Policies and procedures for ICT operations Full

Documented ICT operations procedures, covering how systems are run day to day, and how operational changes are controlled.

Simplified framework counterpart: Art. 34.
ISO 27001 ours
Annex AA.5.37 Documented operating proceduresA.8.9 Configuration managementA.8.19 Installation of software on operational systems
ISO 22301 ours
Clauses8.1 Operational planning and control
PCI DSS ours
RequirementsReq 2 Apply Secure Configurations to All System ComponentsReq 12 Support Information Security with Organizational Policies and Programs
Art. 9 Capacity and performance management Full

Capacity and performance management, so that resources are monitored and provisioned before shortfalls affect service.

Simplified framework counterpart: Art. 34.
ISO 27001 ours
Annex AA.8.6 Capacity management
ISO 22301 ours
Clauses8.3 Business continuity strategies and solutions
PCI DSS ours
No PCI DSS equivalent — PCI DSS does not address this area
Art. 10 Vulnerability and patch management Full

Vulnerability management and patching, including scanning frequency, prioritisation, and tracking third-party components.

Simplified framework counterpart: Art. 34.
ISO 27001 ours
Annex AA.8.8 Management of technical vulnerabilitiesA.8.32 Change management
ISO 22301 ours
No ISO 22301 equivalent — outside the scope of a business continuity management system
PCI DSS ours
RequirementsReq 6 Develop and Maintain Secure Systems and SoftwareReq 11 Test Security of Systems and Networks Regularly
Art. 11 Data and system security Full

Data and system security measures — access restrictions, secure configuration, and protection of data at rest.

Simplified framework counterpart: Art. 35.
ISO 27001 ours
Annex AA.8.1 User endpoint devicesA.8.3 Information access restrictionA.8.9 Configuration managementA.8.24 Use of cryptography
ISO 22301 ours
No ISO 22301 equivalent — outside the scope of a business continuity management system
PCI DSS ours
RequirementsReq 2 Apply Secure Configurations to All System ComponentsReq 3 Protect Stored Account Data
Art. 12 Logging Full

Logging procedures, protocols and tools: what is logged, how long it is retained, how it is protected, and clock synchronisation.

Simplified framework counterpart: Art. 35.
ISO 27001 ours
Annex AA.8.15 LoggingA.8.16 Monitoring activitiesA.8.17 Clock synchronization
ISO 22301 ours
No ISO 22301 equivalent — outside the scope of a business continuity management system
PCI DSS ours
RequirementsReq 10 Log and Monitor All Access to System Components and Cardholder Data
Art. 13 Network security management Full

Network security management, including segmentation, filtering and the design of network architecture.

Simplified framework counterpart: Art. 35.
ISO 27001 ours
Annex AA.8.20 Networks securityA.8.21 Security of network servicesA.8.22 Segregation of networks
ISO 22301 ours
No ISO 22301 equivalent — outside the scope of a business continuity management system
PCI DSS ours
RequirementsReq 1 Install and Maintain Network Security Controls
Art. 14 Securing information in transit Full

Protecting information in transit, including the confidentiality, integrity and authenticity of data moving across networks.

Simplified framework counterpart: Art. 35.
ISO 27001 ours
Annex AA.5.14 Information transferA.8.24 Use of cryptography
ISO 22301 ours
No ISO 22301 equivalent — outside the scope of a business continuity management system
PCI DSS ours
RequirementsReq 4 Protect Cardholder Data with Strong Cryptography During Transmission Over Open, Public Networks
Art. 15 ICT project management Full

An ICT project management policy covering how projects are governed and how security is built in from the start.

Simplified framework counterpart: Art. 38.
ISO 27001 ours
Annex AA.5.8 Information security in project management
ISO 22301 ours
No ISO 22301 equivalent — outside the scope of a business continuity management system
PCI DSS ours
RequirementsReq 6 Develop and Maintain Secure Systems and Software
Art. 16 ICT systems acquisition, development, and maintenance Full

A policy governing acquisition, development and maintenance of ICT systems, including secure development and separation of environments.

Simplified framework counterpart: Art. 37.
ISO 27001 ours
Annex AA.8.25 Secure development life cycleA.8.26 Application security requirementsA.8.27 Secure system architecture and engineering principlesA.8.28 Secure codingA.8.29 Security testing in development and acceptanceA.8.31 Separation of development, test and production environments
ISO 22301 ours
No ISO 22301 equivalent — outside the scope of a business continuity management system
PCI DSS ours
RequirementsReq 6 Develop and Maintain Secure Systems and Software
Art. 17 ICT change management Full

ICT change management — how changes are requested, tested, approved, documented and rolled back.

Simplified framework counterpart: Art. 38.
ISO 27001 ours
Clauses6.3 Planning of changes
Annex AA.8.32 Change managementA.8.31 Separation of development, test and production environments
ISO 22301 ours
Clauses6.3 Planning of changes
PCI DSS ours
RequirementsReq 6 Develop and Maintain Secure Systems and Software
Art. 18 Physical and environmental security Full

A physical and environmental security policy protecting premises, data centres and equipment against physical and environmental threats.

Simplified framework counterpart: Art. 32.
ISO 27001 ours
Annex AA.7.1 Physical security perimetersA.7.2 Physical entryA.7.3 Securing offices, rooms and facilitiesA.7.4 Physical security monitoringA.7.5 Protecting against physical and environmental threatsA.7.8 Equipment siting and protectionA.7.11 Supporting utilitiesA.7.12 Cabling securityA.7.13 Equipment maintenance
ISO 22301 ours
Clauses8.3 Business continuity strategies and solutions
PCI DSS ours
RequirementsReq 9 Restrict Physical Access to Cardholder Data

IIHuman resources policy and access controlTitle II · Chapter II

Art. 19 Human resources policy Full

ICT security elements of the human resources policy: responsibilities, awareness, conditions of employment and termination.

No counterpart in the simplified framework. Title III does not elaborate this area.
ISO 27001 ours
Clauses7.2 Competence7.3 Awareness
Annex AA.6.1 ScreeningA.6.2 Terms and conditions of employmentA.6.3 Information security awareness, education and trainingA.6.4 Disciplinary processA.6.5 Responsibilities after termination or change of employmentA.6.6 Confidentiality or non-disclosure agreements
ISO 22301 ours
Clauses7.2 Competence7.3 Awareness
PCI DSS ours
RequirementsReq 12 Support Information Security with Organizational Policies and Programs
Art. 20 Identity management Full

Identity management — unique identification and authentication of every person and system accessing your ICT assets.

Simplified framework counterpart: Art. 33.
ISO 27001 ours
Annex AA.5.16 Identity managementA.5.17 Authentication informationA.8.5 Secure authentication
ISO 22301 ours
No ISO 22301 equivalent — outside the scope of a business continuity management system
PCI DSS ours
RequirementsReq 8 Identify Users and Authenticate Access to System Components
Art. 21 Access control Full

Access control on need-to-know, need-to-use and least privilege, including privileged accounts, review and revocation.

Simplified framework counterpart: Art. 33.
ISO 27001 ours
Annex AA.5.15 Access controlA.5.18 Access rightsA.8.2 Privileged access rightsA.8.3 Information access restrictionA.8.4 Access to source codeA.8.18 Use of privileged utility programs
ISO 22301 ours
No ISO 22301 equivalent — outside the scope of a business continuity management system
PCI DSS ours
RequirementsReq 7 Restrict Access to System Components and Cardholder Data by Business Need to KnowReq 8 Identify Users and Authenticate Access to System Components

IIIICT-related incident detection and responseTitle II · Chapter III

Art. 22 ICT-related incident management policy Full

An ICT-related incident management policy: how incidents are recorded, classified, escalated, communicated and closed.

No counterpart in the simplified framework. Title III does not elaborate this area.
ISO 27001 ours
Annex AA.5.24 Information security incident management planning and preparationA.5.25 Assessment and decision on information security eventsA.5.26 Response to information security incidentsA.5.27 Learning from information security incidentsA.6.8 Information security event reporting
ISO 22301 ours
Clauses8.4 Business continuity plans and procedures7.4 Communication
PCI DSS ours
RequirementsReq 12 Support Information Security with Organizational Policies and Programs
Art. 23 Anomalous activities detection and criteria for ICT-related incidents detection and response Full

Detection of anomalous activity, with defined roles, triggers and criteria for declaring and responding to an ICT-related incident.

No counterpart in the simplified framework. Title III does not elaborate this area.
ISO 27001 ours
Annex AA.5.7 Threat intelligenceA.8.15 LoggingA.8.16 Monitoring activities
ISO 22301 ours
No ISO 22301 equivalent — outside the scope of a business continuity management system
PCI DSS ours
RequirementsReq 10 Log and Monitor All Access to System Components and Cardholder DataReq 11 Test Security of Systems and Networks Regularly

IVICT business continuity managementTitle II · Chapter IV

Art. 24 Components of the ICT business continuity policy Full

What the ICT business continuity policy must contain, including objectives, scope, and the link to your business impact analysis.

Simplified framework counterpart: Art. 39.
ISO 27001 ours
Clauses5.2 Policy
Annex AA.5.29 Information security during disruptionA.5.30 ICT readiness for business continuity
ISO 22301 ours
Clauses5.2 Policy8.1 Operational planning and control8.2 Business impact analysis and risk assessment8.3 Business continuity strategies and solutions8.4 Business continuity plans and procedures
PCI DSS ours
No PCI DSS equivalent — PCI DSS does not address this area
Art. 25 Testing of the ICT business continuity plans Full

Testing of ICT business continuity plans against the business impact analysis and the ICT risk assessment, with results acted on.

Simplified framework counterpart: Art. 40.
ISO 27001 ours
Annex AA.5.29 Information security during disruption
ISO 22301 ours
Clauses8.2 Business impact analysis and risk assessment8.5 Exercise programme8.6 Evaluation of business continuity documentation and capabilities
PCI DSS ours
No PCI DSS equivalent — PCI DSS does not address this area
Art. 26 ICT response and recovery plans Full

ICT response and recovery plans built on the results of the business impact analysis, with recovery objectives and communication.

Simplified framework counterpart: Art. 39.
ISO 27001 ours
Annex AA.5.29 Information security during disruptionA.5.30 ICT readiness for business continuityA.8.13 Information backupA.8.14 Redundancy of information processing facilities
ISO 22301 ours
Clauses8.2 Business impact analysis and risk assessment8.3 Business continuity strategies and solutions8.4 Business continuity plans and procedures7.4 Communication
PCI DSS ours
RequirementsReq 12 Support Information Security with Organizational Policies and Programs

VReport on the ICT risk management framework reviewTitle II · Chapter V

Art. 27 Format and content of the report on the review of the ICT risk management framework Full

The format and content of the report on the review of the ICT risk management framework, submitted in a searchable electronic format.

Simplified framework counterpart: Art. 41.
ISO 27001 ours
Clauses9.1 Monitoring, measurement, analysis and evaluation9.2 Internal audit9.3 Management review10.1 Continual improvement10.2 Nonconformity and corrective action
Annex AA.5.35 Independent review of information securityA.5.36 Compliance with policies, rules and standards for information security
ISO 22301 ours
Clauses9.1 Monitoring, measurement, analysis and evaluation9.2 Internal audit9.3 Management review10.1 Nonconformity and corrective action10.2 Continual improvement
PCI DSS ours
RequirementsReq 12 Support Information Security with Organizational Policies and Programs

ISimplified ICT risk management frameworkTitle III · Chapter I

Art. 28 Governance and organisation Simplified

Internal governance and control framework for entities on the simplified regime — clear responsibilities and management body involvement.

In the full framework this is 2 articles: Art. 2, Art. 3.
ISO 27001 ours
Clauses5.1 Leadership and commitment5.3 Roles, responsibilities and authorities
Annex AA.5.2 Information security roles and responsibilitiesA.5.4 Management responsibilities
ISO 22301 ours
Clauses5.1 Leadership and commitment5.3 Roles, responsibilities and authorities
PCI DSS ours
RequirementsReq 12 Support Information Security with Organizational Policies and Programs
Art. 29 Information security policy and measures Simplified

An information security policy setting high-level principles for confidentiality, integrity, availability and authenticity.

In the full framework this is 1 article: Art. 2.
ISO 27001 ours
Clauses5.2 Policy
Annex AA.5.1 Policies for information security
ISO 22301 ours
Clauses5.2 Policy
PCI DSS ours
RequirementsReq 12 Support Information Security with Organizational Policies and Programs
Art. 30 Classification of information assets and ICT assets Simplified

Identify, classify and document critical or important functions, the information assets supporting them, and their ICT assets.

In the full framework this is 2 articles: Art. 4, Art. 5.
ISO 27001 ours
Annex AA.5.9 Inventory of information and other associated assetsA.5.12 Classification of informationA.5.13 Labelling of information
ISO 22301 ours
Clauses8.2 Business impact analysis and risk assessment
PCI DSS ours
RequirementsReq 12 Support Information Security with Organizational Policies and Programs
Art. 31 ICT risk management Simplified

The simplified ICT risk management framework itself: risk tolerance, identification, assessment, treatment and monitoring.

In the full framework this is 1 article: Art. 3.
ISO 27001 ours
Clauses6.1.2 Information security risk assessment6.1.3 Information security risk treatment8.2 Information security risk assessment8.3 Information security risk treatment
ISO 22301 ours
Clauses6.1 Actions to address risks and opportunities6.2 Business continuity objectives and planning to achieve them8.2 Business impact analysis and risk assessment
PCI DSS ours
RequirementsReq 12 Support Information Security with Organizational Policies and Programs

IIFurther elements of systems, protocols and tools to minimise the impact of ICT riskTitle III · Chapter II

Art. 32 Physical and environmental security Simplified

Physical security measures based on the threat landscape and the classification carried out under Article 30.

In the full framework this is 1 article: Art. 18.
ISO 27001 ours
Annex AA.7.1 Physical security perimetersA.7.2 Physical entryA.7.4 Physical security monitoringA.7.5 Protecting against physical and environmental threatsA.7.11 Supporting utilities
ISO 22301 ours
Clauses8.3 Business continuity strategies and solutions
PCI DSS ours
RequirementsReq 9 Restrict Physical Access to Cardholder Data
Art. 33 Access Control Simplified

Procedures for logical and physical access control, enforced, monitored and periodically reviewed.

In the full framework this is 2 articles: Art. 20, Art. 21.
ISO 27001 ours
Annex AA.5.15 Access controlA.5.16 Identity managementA.5.17 Authentication informationA.5.18 Access rightsA.8.2 Privileged access rightsA.8.3 Information access restrictionA.8.5 Secure authentication
ISO 22301 ours
No ISO 22301 equivalent — outside the scope of a business continuity management system
PCI DSS ours
RequirementsReq 7 Restrict Access to System Components and Cardholder Data by Business Need to KnowReq 8 Identify Users and Authenticate Access to System ComponentsReq 9 Restrict Physical Access to Cardholder Data
Art. 34 ICT operations security Simplified

ICT operations security — asset lifecycle, supported versions, capacity, backups, vulnerability and patch handling in one article.

In the full framework this is 3 articles: Art. 8, Art. 9, Art. 10.
ISO 27001 ours
Annex AA.5.9 Inventory of information and other associated assetsA.8.7 Protection against malwareA.8.8 Management of technical vulnerabilitiesA.8.9 Configuration managementA.8.13 Information backupA.8.19 Installation of software on operational systemsA.8.32 Change management
ISO 22301 ours
Clauses8.3 Business continuity strategies and solutions
PCI DSS ours
RequirementsReq 2 Apply Secure Configurations to All System ComponentsReq 5 Protect All Systems and Networks from Malicious SoftwareReq 6 Develop and Maintain Secure Systems and Software
Art. 35 Data, system and network security Simplified

Data, system and network security in one article: network safeguards, encryption, and protection of data at rest and in transit.

In the full framework this is 6 articles: Art. 6, Art. 7, Art. 11, Art. 12, Art. 13, Art. 14.
ISO 27001 ours
Annex AA.5.14 Information transferA.8.12 Data leakage preventionA.8.20 Networks securityA.8.21 Security of network servicesA.8.22 Segregation of networksA.8.24 Use of cryptography
ISO 22301 ours
No ISO 22301 equivalent — outside the scope of a business continuity management system
PCI DSS ours
RequirementsReq 1 Install and Maintain Network Security ControlsReq 3 Protect Stored Account DataReq 4 Protect Cardholder Data with Strong Cryptography During Transmission Over Open, Public Networks
Art. 36 ICT security testing Simplified

An ICT security testing plan validating that the measures under Articles 33 to 35 actually work.

No single counterpart in the full framework — this duty is expressed only in Title III.
ISO 27001 ours
Annex AA.8.8 Management of technical vulnerabilitiesA.8.29 Security testing in development and acceptance
ISO 22301 ours
No ISO 22301 equivalent — outside the scope of a business continuity management system
PCI DSS ours
RequirementsReq 11 Test Security of Systems and Networks Regularly
Art. 37 ICT systems acquisition, development, and maintenance Simplified

A risk-based procedure for acquiring, developing and maintaining ICT systems, including testing before deployment.

In the full framework this is 1 article: Art. 16.
ISO 27001 ours
Annex AA.8.25 Secure development life cycleA.8.26 Application security requirementsA.8.28 Secure codingA.8.31 Separation of development, test and production environments
ISO 22301 ours
No ISO 22301 equivalent — outside the scope of a business continuity management system
PCI DSS ours
RequirementsReq 6 Develop and Maintain Secure Systems and Software
Art. 38 ICT project and change management Simplified

ICT project and change management combined — roles, documentation, approval and testing of changes.

In the full framework this is 2 articles: Art. 15, Art. 17.
ISO 27001 ours
Clauses6.3 Planning of changes
Annex AA.5.8 Information security in project managementA.8.32 Change management
ISO 22301 ours
Clauses6.3 Planning of changes
PCI DSS ours
RequirementsReq 6 Develop and Maintain Secure Systems and Software

IIIICT business continuity managementTitle III · Chapter III

Art. 39 Components of the ICT business continuity plan Simplified

What the ICT business continuity plan must contain, built on analysis of exposure to severe business disruption including a cyber-attack scenario.

In the full framework this is 2 articles: Art. 24, Art. 26.
ISO 27001 ours
Annex AA.5.29 Information security during disruptionA.5.30 ICT readiness for business continuityA.8.13 Information backup
ISO 22301 ours
Clauses8.2 Business impact analysis and risk assessment8.3 Business continuity strategies and solutions8.4 Business continuity plans and procedures
PCI DSS ours
No PCI DSS equivalent — PCI DSS does not address this area
Art. 40 Testing of business continuity plans Simplified

Annual testing of business continuity plans, including the scenarios identified under Article 39.

In the full framework this is 1 article: Art. 25.
ISO 27001 ours
Annex AA.5.29 Information security during disruption
ISO 22301 ours
Clauses8.5 Exercise programme8.6 Evaluation of business continuity documentation and capabilities
PCI DSS ours
No PCI DSS equivalent — PCI DSS does not address this area

IVReport on the review of the simplified ICT risk management frameworkTitle III · Chapter IV

Art. 41 Format and content of the report on the review of the simplified ICT risk management framework Simplified

Format and content of the report on the review of the simplified ICT risk management framework.

In the full framework this is 1 article: Art. 27.
ISO 27001 ours
Clauses9.1 Monitoring, measurement, analysis and evaluation9.3 Management review10.2 Nonconformity and corrective action
Annex AA.5.35 Independent review of information security
ISO 22301 ours
Clauses9.1 Monitoring, measurement, analysis and evaluation9.3 Management review10.2 Continual improvement
PCI DSS ours
RequirementsReq 12 Support Information Security with Organizational Policies and Programs
The difference

What the simplified framework actually drops

This is the question every entity that might fall under DORA Article 16 asks first, and the answer is derivable from the regulation's own structure rather than from anyone's opinion. Title III is a compression of Title II. Some articles are merged, some disappear.

Merged: where one simplified article absorbs several

7 of the fourteen Title III articles each cover ground that Title II spreads across multiple articles. The obligation is not removed — it is stated once, at a higher level, with less prescription about how you meet it.

Article 35 is the clearest example. In the full framework, encryption, key management, data and system security, logging, network security management and securing information in transit are six separate articles with their own detailed paragraphs. In the simplified framework they are one article. That is a genuine reduction in prescription, and it is also where entities most often under-build, because a single article invites a single thin control set where six articles did not.

Dropped: full-framework articles with no Title III counterpart

3 articles in Title II have no corresponding article in Title III. Read these carefully — in most cases the underlying duty still exists somewhere in DORA itself, and only the RTS-level elaboration falls away.

Article 19
Human resources policy
The simplified framework has no human resources article. The duty does not vanish — DORA Article 5(2) still puts ICT risk on the management body — but the RTS does not elaborate screening, terms of employment or the disciplinary process for Article 16 entities.
Article 22
ICT-related incident management policy
There is no incident management policy article in Title III. Incident handling for Article 16 entities is governed directly by DORA Articles 17 to 23, which apply to every financial entity, rather than being elaborated in the RTS.
Article 23
Anomalous activities detection and criteria for ICT-related incidents detection and response
No anomalous activity detection article. The detection duty sits in DORA Article 10 and in the general obligation under Article 16(1), without the RTS setting out roles, triggers and criteria.

"No article" does not mean "no obligation"

This is the single most important caveat on this page, and it is where simplified-framework programmes go wrong. The RTS elaborates DORA. It does not replace it. Where Title III is silent, the parent regulation still speaks.

Incident handling is the clearest case. There is no incident management policy article in Title III, but DORA Articles 17 to 23 — the classification of ICT-related incidents and the initial, intermediate and final reporting obligations — apply to financial entities regardless of which framework they are on. An entity that reads the silence in Title III as an exemption from incident reporting has misread the instrument badly.

The same holds for the management body. Title III has no human resources article, but DORA Article 5(2) still places ultimate responsibility for ICT risk on the management body, and Article 13(6) still requires ICT security awareness and training.

The gaps

What none of these three frameworks gives you

Every honest mapping needs this section. There are DORA duties that no certificate closes, because they are not control objectives — they are obligations owed to a supervisor, and to your counterparties.

  • The register of information. DORA Article 28(3) requires a register of all contractual arrangements for the use of ICT services from third-party providers, maintained in a prescribed format and reported to your competent authority. No ISO or PCI control produces it.
  • Major incident reporting. The classification criteria and the initial, intermediate and final report cascade to your competent authority under DORA Articles 18 to 20. ISO 27001 A.5.24 to A.5.27 give you incident management. They do not give you a regulator's deadline.
  • Contractual content for ICT third parties. DORA Article 30 sets out mandatory contractual provisions — access, audit and inspection rights, exit strategies, service level descriptions, sub-contracting conditions. A.5.20 requires agreements to address information security; it does not prescribe these terms.
  • Threat-led penetration testing. Advanced testing under DORA Articles 26 and 27, for entities identified by their competent authority, following TIBER-EU style methodology. A.8.29 security testing is a different animal at a different scale.
  • The oversight framework for critical ICT third-party providers. Titles V and the CTPP designation regime create obligations that sit outside any entity's own management system.
  • Management body accountability. DORA Article 5(2) makes the management body ultimately responsible for ICT risk, with defined duties and a training obligation. ISO 27001 clause 5.1 requires leadership commitment; it does not create personal regulatory accountability.

None of that is a criticism of the standards. They were written to manage risk, not to satisfy a European supervisory regime. The practical shape of a DORA programme is the management system as the engine, with the regulatory duties bolted on as a defined, separately evidenced layer.

On percentages

We publish no coverage percentage for DORA, for the same reason we publish none for NIS2. There is no reproducible method behind the figures that circulate, no regulator has endorsed one, and a number invites exactly the false comfort this page is trying to prevent. A list of what is missing is less satisfying and considerably more useful.

Editor's notes

How this page was built, and where the judgement calls are

Reproducing a regulation and adding analysis to it means separating the two clearly.

  • Article numbers and titles are the regulation's. They were parsed directly from the EUR-Lex HTML of Regulation (EU) 2024/1774 rather than retyped, so the titles here are the published ones. The regulation has 42 articles; Article 42 is entry into force and is not mapped, which is why this page shows 41.
  • The plain-language line under each article title is ours, and is a summary rather than a substitute for the article text. Where a summary and the regulation differ, the regulation wins — it is linked at the top of the page.
  • The correspondence between Title III and Title II is our derivation, based on the two Titles' subject matter article by article. The regulation does not publish a concordance between its own halves. It is the most interpretive thing on this page and the most useful, so it is marked visually in every article rather than buried.
  • PCI DSS is mapped at the level of its twelve requirements, not at sub-requirement level. That is deliberate. The twelve titles here are the official v4.0.1 wording; the sub-requirement text is a copyrighted document we are not going to paraphrase from memory. A coarser mapping that is correct beats a granular one decorated with plausible fiction.
  • ISO 22301 is mapped at clause x.y and no deeper, on the same principle, and consistently with our NIS2 page.
  • Control and clause titles are the standards' own short titles, added so the table can be read without three standards open beside you. No standard's requirement text is reproduced.

Found something wrong, or disagree with a row? Tell us and we will correct it and say so here. A mapping nobody argues with is usually a mapping nobody has checked.

Questions

Common questions about DORA and these frameworks

Does ISO 27001 certification make us DORA compliant?
No. It covers a substantial part of the RTS — most of Title II Chapters I to III map onto Annex A controls and the management-system clauses — and it produces much of the evidence a supervisor will ask to see. It does not produce the register of information, the major incident reporting cascade, the mandatory contractual terms for ICT third-party providers, threat-led penetration testing, or the management body accountability DORA Article 5(2) creates. Those are set out in the gaps section. Treat the ISMS as the engine and the regulatory duties as a separate, evidenced layer.
What is Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2024/1774?
It is the regulatory technical standard specifying ICT risk management tools, methods, processes and policies under DORA. It was adopted on 13 March 2024 and published in the Official Journal on 25 June 2024. It has 42 articles: Article 1 on proportionality, Articles 2 to 27 setting out the full ICT risk management framework under DORA Article 15, Articles 28 to 41 setting out the simplified framework for entities under DORA Article 16(1), and Article 42 on entry into force. It is directly applicable law, not guidance.
How do we know whether we are on the full or the simplified framework?
You work it out from DORA Article 16(1), and it is not something you can look up on a public register. The categories it points to include small and non-interconnected investment firms, payment institutions and electronic money institutions that are exempted under their own sectoral directives, small institutions for occupational retirement provision, and certain microenterprises. Each of those has its own defined test, and the interconnectedness limb in particular is a judgement about your operations rather than a fact about your licence. It is worth establishing deliberately and documenting the reasoning, because your whole programme scope follows from it. More on the Article 16 framework.
Is there an official mapping between DORA and ISO 27001?
We have not found one. Unlike NIS2 — where ENISA published a mapping table correlating the implementing regulation to nine frameworks, which we reproduce in full here — no equivalent exists from the European Supervisory Authorities, ENISA, a national competent authority, or ISO. Everything in the three columns on this page is therefore NexGenio's own analysis and is marked as such. If an official mapping is published we will say so and reconcile this page against it.
Why is ISO 22301 on this page rather than just ISO 27001?
Because ICT business continuity is an entire chapter in both halves of the RTS, and because the regulation repeatedly relies on the business impact analysis. Articles 25, 26 and 39 all require plans and testing to be built on the results of a BIA. The BIA is an ISO 22301 clause 8.2 artefact. ISO 27001 addresses continuity through three Annex A controls — A.5.29, A.5.30 and A.8.13 — which tell you to plan ICT readiness against continuity objectives without telling you how those objectives were derived. For DORA, that derivation is exactly what a supervisor will ask about.
Does PCI DSS apply to us as a financial entity?
Only if you handle cardholder data. PCI DSS is a card-brand contractual scheme rather than law, and its scope is triggered by storing, processing or transmitting cardholder data or sensitive authentication data, or by being able to affect the security of that data. Card issuers, acquirers, payment institutions and processors in a card flow are typically in scope. An investment firm, an IORP or a fund manager with no card touchpoints has no PCI DSS obligation at all. The column is on this page because the overlap is real for part of the sector, not because it applies to the whole of it.
If Title III has no incident management article, do Article 16 entities avoid incident reporting?
No, and this is the most consequential misreading of the simplified framework we see. The RTS elaborates DORA; it does not replace it. DORA Articles 17 to 23 govern ICT-related incident management, classification and the initial, intermediate and final reporting cascade to the competent authority, and they apply to financial entities irrespective of which framework they are on. The absence of an elaborating article in Title III means less prescription about how you build the capability, not an exemption from the duty.
Can we show this page to our supervisor as evidence?
Use it as a navigation aid, not as evidence. It is one consultancy's reading of how three voluntary frameworks relate to a directly applicable regulation, and it carries no regulatory authority. What a supervisor will want is your own assessment against the articles that apply to your regime, with the evidence behind each one, and a clear account of the duties that sit outside any framework. This page is a reasonable place to start that work and a poor place to end it.

Article structure and titles sourced from Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2024/1774 as published in the Official Journal. Framework references are NexGenio analysis. PCI DSS facts verified against PCI DSS v4.0.1 (June 2024). This page is reviewed when any source is revised. Last reviewed 17 September 2026.

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