NIS2 vs DORA

Key Differences

NIS2 is a directive requiring national transposition by each EU member state, covering 18 sectors broadly including energy, transport, health, and digital infrastructure. DORA is a regulation directly applicable in all 27 EU member states, applying exclusively to financial sector entities — banks, insurers, investment firms, crypto asset service providers, and their critical ICT third-party providers.

Article 1(2) of DORA establishes that DORA takes precedence over NIS2 as the lex specialis regulation for the financial sector where the two overlap. DORA's requirements are more prescriptive than NIS2 in incident reporting timelines — 4-hour initial notification versus NIS2's 24-hour — and in third-party oversight and mandatory resilience testing.

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