Horizon 2030 for Banking: Operational Resilience – Addressing DORA Together, with Monica Sasso
By Ali Paterson · 1 October 2026
Quick Summary
In this episode of Horizon 2030 for Banking from Red Hat, Monica Sasso, Financial Services (FSI) EMEA Chief Technologist, talks about proving and practising resilience, and why she sees automation as an underutilised superpower for doing so.
How Does Monica Sasso Describe Automation's Role in Resilience?
She frames the discussion through stories rather than a list of use cases. Red Hat has customers that use automation every day: when the trading day closes, they wipe their servers, repave them and restart them for the following day. Because that process runs daily, the act of wiping out and starting again becomes natural. When a failure or an attack does happen, the response is an automation playbook that already runs routinely, not a manual procedure worked through step by step.
What Use Cases Does She Point To?
Monica mentions that she and a colleague in Red Hat's CTO office compiled a list of around 25 use cases on this theme, covering:
- Using automation to respond to a failure.
- Using automation to prepare and practise for a failure.
- Disaster recovery playbooks, including moving one environment to another.
Why Does She Call It Overlooked?
In her view, automation is an overlooked tool with many easy wins available to organisations willing to think differently about it. The playbooks she describes create the muscle memory that brings resilience into an organisation at its core, rather than treating it as a tick-box activity.
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