The Bank of Italy has published instructions and a standard template for the ICT security assessments it requested in its 23 December 2024 communication to the market. The exercise asks financial entities to assess their current status against the requirements of the Digital Operational Resilience Act (Regulation (EU) 2022/2554, DORA) and to conduct a self-assessment of their ICT risk management framework. The supervisor is providing the template to help intermediaries carry out the assessments and to improve the comparability of responses.