DORA compliance

No internet. No cloud. No outside connections.

For critical financial infrastructure, relying solely on the public cloud is no longer just a technical risk—it is a regulatory liability. Under the Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA), financial institutions must ensure their core monitoring can withstand severe third-party failures. If your visibility relies entirely on a remote SaaS platform, a connection drop leaves you blind and out of compliance. You cannot protect what you cannot see.

Over the last decade, managed software tools made it incredibly easy to spin up dashboards. However, DORA highlights a hidden compromise: relying strictly on external, third-party data centres creates dangerous concentration risk.

Regulators like Finansinspektionen expect firms to maintain operational control during severe ICT disruptions. A cloud-native tool fails inside an isolated environment. If your monitoring software needs to contact an outside vendor server to validate a license, process telemetry or run a query, a network blackout brings your entire compliance view to a dead stop.

True resilience requires self-contained systems that keep the lights on when the wider network goes dark.

Running complex monitoring completely cut off from the internet - known as an air-gapped environment - is a strict architectural challenge. The system must be designed to handle total isolation from day one.

This is exactly how we help financial entities address strict DORA resilience and data isolation mandates using Elastic.

Unlike platforms that lock you into a managed cloud ecosystem, Elastic provides complete deployment freedom. We architect self-hosted Elastic clusters that sit permanently on-site within your secure, private perimeter. The system runs natively without external third-party dependencies.

Total data sovereignty: Every critical log, metric and trace remains securely stored inside your own infrastructure, satisfying strict EU data rules.

Local analytical speed: Alerting rules and threat detection run entirely on your own hardware, remaining fully active during a total network blackout.

Air-gapped reliability: Ingestion and core monitoring never depend on a live connection to an outside software vendor, removing third-party lock-ups.

Meeting DORA requirements is not about ticking a compliance box. It is about maintaining total operational sovereignty when the unexpected happens. Financial organisations cannot afford to let a cloud dependency pull the plug on their visibility.

Protect your sensitive operational data by keeping it local, secure and entirely under your own control.

Want to see how to architect a fully DORA-compliant, completely offline monitoring system for your secure infrastructure? Contact our team today for an air-gapped architecture review.