Last year, the European IT landscape breathed a collective sigh of relief; the January 2025 deadline for the Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA) had passed. Many organisations treated it like a finish line – a one-and-done marathon of paperwork and technical audits. Looking ahead to 2026, however, it is clear that this finish line was only a starting block for the next era of building a competitive edge for businesses.
A recent report from Boston Consulting Group warns that Europe’s digital infrastructure faces a serious ‘resilience gap’ and that a large-scale or prolonged outage could cause cascading crises across essential services, including payments, financial stability, and emergency response systems.
