DORA readiness is not a dashboard screenshot. For Microsoft cloud teams, the useful first pass is proving identity controls, operational logging, recovery testing, incident roles, and critical ICT supplier ownership.
Primary source checked on 2026-05-10: Microsoft Compliance. Use the Microsoft page as the final source of truth before booking an exam or committing a remediation plan.
Who this is for
- Financial-services IT teams preparing for DORA conversations with risk, audit, or customers.
- Microsoft 365 and Azure administrators asked to turn tenant settings into evidence.
- Consultants scoping a first operational resilience sprint without overclaiming compliance.
What to work on first
- Collect identity evidence first: admin MFA coverage, break-glass accounts, PIM usage, privileged role reviews, and risky sign-in handling.
- Export logging coverage from Entra, Defender, Microsoft 365 audit, Azure Activity, and Sentinel or Log Analytics.
- Document restore tests, incident roles, escalation timelines, supplier ownership, and known exceptions before changing more controls.
Team training angle
A DORA-focused Microsoft cloud workshop should produce an evidence backlog, not a compliance promise. The best output is a scoped list of owners, proof sources, gaps, and next remediation steps.
One-week action plan
- Day 1: inventory critical Microsoft cloud services, admins, and suppliers.
- Day 2: gather identity and privileged access evidence.
- Day 3: verify audit logs, Sentinel connectors, and retention assumptions.
- Day 4: review backup and restore evidence for critical workloads.
- Day 5: package the findings into a DORA evidence backlog.
Where Cloud Evolvers fits
Cloud Evolvers can run a DORA-oriented Microsoft cloud readiness scan and turn it into a remediation sprint for Azure and Microsoft 365 teams.