Automate DORA & UK FCA ICT change controls in Jira Cloud
The definitive technical guide for European and UK engineering leaders, DevOps managers, and financial compliance officers. Eliminate manual PR screenshotting and satisfy DORA Articles 9 & 11 and UK FCA/PRA SS1/21 natively inside Jira Cloud—with 100% European & UK Data Residency and zero data egress.
Runs inside Atlassian EU (Frankfurt / Dublin) or UK (London) regions. Zero cross-border transfer.
100% native Forge microVMs. Eliminates complex DORA Chapter V third-party vendor audits.
Instant CSV & PDF workpapers formatted for BaFin, ACPR, CSSF, CBI, and the UK FCA.
The enforcement reality of DORA and UK Operational Resilience
From 17 January 2025, the Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA) is legally binding across all EU member states, directly covering over 22,000 financial entities and their critical ICT third-party service providers. In parallel, the UK FCA and PRA enforce strict operational resilience rules under Policy Statement PS21/3 and Supervisory Statement SS1/21.
Uncontrolled or poorly documented software changes represent the #1 operational vulnerability targeted by regulatory audits. National Competent Authorities (NCAs) and lead auditors inspect:
- Independent Code Approval: Absolute proof that no engineer can approve or deploy their own code into production environments without independent peer review.
- Documented Testing Evidence: Proof that testing (automated unit/integration tests or QA validation) was successfully executed prior to deployment.
- Explicit Rollback Readiness: Documented contingency procedures (Git revert instructions, feature flag toggles, or database rollback steps) attached directly to the release record.
DORA Article 9 & 11 Change Control Matrix & EvidenceLog Automation
How EvidenceLog automates technical compliance directly inside Atlassian Jira Cloud:
Financial entities shall establish and implement mechanisms to manage and document changes to software, hardware, and ICT components, ensuring authorization prior to deployment.
Clear evidence of technical sign-off and product authorization documented on every production release ticket before moving to production status.
Real-time transition gatekeeping in Jira. Enforces peer approvals and blocks tickets without authorized developer and reviewer separation.
Segregation of duties must be implemented to prevent conflicts of interest and unauthorized access or modifications to critical systems.
Indisputable proof that the author of code or pull request was prevented from self-approving or unilaterally deploying changes into operational environments.
Validates PR links across GitHub, GitLab, and Bitbucket. Flags and blocks author self-approval directly within the Jira issue view.
ICT systems and software updates must undergo comprehensive testing (unit, regression, integration, security) in non-production environments prior to release.
Automated CI test pass evidence, staging environment validation tags, or QA sign-offs linked to the release issue.
Detects automated test passes from CI/CD webhooks, staging-passed labels, and QA sign-off comments before allowing transition to Done.
Procedures must exist for aborting, rolling back, and recovering from unsuccessful changes without disrupting essential financial services.
Explicit rollback instructions (Git revert commit, feature flag switch, database rollback scripts) documented prior to deployment.
Parses Jira description for rollback instructions. Provides a 1-click in-situ button to append standardized rollback plans into the ticket.
Continuous logging and preservation of ICT change events to enable post-incident analysis and verification by national competent authorities (NCAs / FCA).
Unalterable audit logs matching ticket keys to commit SHAs, PR reviewers, test runs, and timestamps with zero spreadsheet tampering risk.
Generates sealed CSV workpapers and SHA-256 cryptographic JSON bundles for European NCAs, BaFin, ACPR, CSSF, Central Bank of Ireland, and the UK FCA.
Why Atlassian Forge eliminates GDPR & DORA Chapter V vendor friction
External compliance tools that require database egress to US-hosted multitenant servers force European and UK financial institutions into arduous cross-border transfer assessments (Schrems II) and DORA third-party ICT audits. EvidenceLog runs 100% inside Atlassian Forge:
Data remains strictly within your organization's designated Atlassian Cloud region with zero cross-border transfer.
EvidenceLog manifests enforce zero outbound internet connections. Your source code, PR diffs, and Jira tickets never touch external servers.
Audit logs and cryptographic hashes are persisted in Atlassian Key-Value Storage (@forge/kvs), fully covered under Atlassian's GDPR DPA.
Classified as a native Atlassian Cloud plugin, drastically simplifying your Article 28 Register of Information for ICT third-party services.
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