Digital Operational Resilience Act
Prove resilience testing is an operating process, not an annual event.
Continuous validation evidence mapped into ICT-risk and resilience-testing workflows, including threat-led penetration-testing evidence where applicable.
Surfaces this draws on
The problem
The difficult part is proving the process keeps working.
A financial organization can have policies, security tools, penetration-test reports, risk registers and remediation tickets. The operational question is whether those controls remain effective as the environment changes.
Applications deploy. Permissions drift. SaaS relationships change. Credentials are exposed. New systems appear.
A point-in-time assessment proves what was true at one moment. RedMaw is designed to make technical validation repeatable.
Evidence
A history, not a “test completed” field
RedMaw runs testing on a schedule and triggers testing from deployments, which lets an organization show that validation is not limited to an annual assessment window. The result is a record of:
- What was authorized
- What was tested
- What was proven
- What changed
- What was remediated
- What was re-tested
- What remained open
Remediation is part of resilience.
Finding a vulnerability is not resilience. Fixing it is not enough either. The organization still needs to know whether the security condition changed.
Discovered
A potential issue or exposure is identified.
Validated
Adversarial testing proves exploitability or meaningful reachability.
Prioritized
Ranked by what it actually reaches.
Assigned
Routed to the owner who can change it.
Remediated
The team reports the change is made.
Retested
RedMaw runs the relevant attack again.
Closed or reopened
The retest result becomes the authoritative security state.
When remediation is reported, RedMaw re-runs the relevant attack. If it still works, the finding remains open or reopens. If the exploit is gone, the finding closes by proof.
Audiences
One test, three levels of detail
The report builder produces executive and technical reporting from the same underlying security state, so each audience inspects the detail relevant to them.
A CISO needs the overall resilience posture. An engineer needs the reproducible technical evidence. A regulator or auditor needs to understand what testing occurred and how findings were addressed. The underlying test is the same.
Operating model
Managed delivery for teams without the capacity
Organizations under regulatory pressure may not have the internal capacity to operate a continuous adversarial-testing program themselves. RedMaw supports a managed model in which RedMaw operators run and triage the program while the customer retains control over authorization, scope and remediation.
Dedicated hosted environments and secure outbound connectivity are available for more controlled operating requirements.
Output
What RedMaw provides for DORA
All of it produced by the security work itself, not assembled separately at audit time.
- ICT-risk evidence from actual security validation
- Resilience-testing evidence over time
- Threat-led penetration-testing evidence where applicable
- Regulator-facing evidence exports
- Executive and technical reporting from one security state
- Managed operating model for teams without internal capacity
Other frameworks
Same loop, different evidence
Make DORA evidence easier to produce.
Continuously validate exposure, preserve the evidence, and re-test remediation.