FEBRUARY 2026 • 4 MIN READ
DORA resilience testing: why most insurers will fail their first drill.
Insurers are used to control frameworks that read well on paper. DORA asks a different question: can you demonstrate recovery under adversarial assumptions, with evidence that does not depend on a hero engineer?
The first-drill failure mode
Teams optimise for pass/fail narratives. The real failure is fragmented ownership: cloud landing zones, legacy policy admin, and third-party SaaS each have different incident contracts — and the drill exposes the gaps between them.
What changes when it works
A single resilience narrative ties technical recovery to customer-facing continuity. Playbooks are executable, not decorative: roles, comms templates, and evidence capture are rehearsed until they feel boring — which is the point.