DORA board reporting: management body pack and briefing templates
Everything a CRO or CISO needs to brief the management body on DORA. Quarterly deck (18 slides, full speaker notes) plus six Word templates: annual CRO letter, board minutes, one-page KPI scorecard, risk-appetite statement, decision log and annual board attestation.
What this solves
Article 5 puts the management body on the hook: it must approve the ICT risk framework, understand the risk, and be able to show it is engaged. That obligation is discharged in a meeting, from a pack, in language that is not the language of the control catalogue.
Technical teams routinely bring the board a maturity heatmap and leave without a decision, because the pack answered "how are we doing" and the board needed "what are you asking me to approve".
What is inside
- 18-slide PowerPoint — Quarterly Board update
- Full speaker guidance notes on every slide
- One-page KPI scorecard across all 5 pillars (Word)
- ICT risk-appetite statement template — Art. 6(8)(b) (Word)
- Board decision log & risk-acceptance register (Word)
- Annual management-body attestation — Art. 5 (Word)
- Annual CRO letter to the Board (Word)
- Board minutes template — DORA item (Word)
What it covers in the regulation
- Article 5 — governance and organisation
- Article 5(2) — management body responsibilities and knowledge
- Article 6(5) — yearly review of the framework
- Article 13 — learning and evolving
Who uses it, and when
Anyone who has to present DORA upwards: ICT risk, compliance, the programme lead. Used at every milestone — approval of the framework, the yearly review, and after any major incident.
How to work through it
- Pick the decision you need before choosing a slide: approval, budget or acknowledgement.
- Fill the pack with your own numbers; the templates deliberately carry no benchmark you would have to justify.
- Keep the technical annex out of the main pack and in the appendix.
- Record the decision — Article 5 engagement is evidenced by minutes, not intentions.