A technical blueprint to integrate CRA mandates directly into your CI/CD pipelines.

The EU Cyber Resilience Act (CRA) demands fundamental changes to how you build and ship software. But translating dense regulatory text into automated engineering workflows is a massive challenge.

This checklist maps a direct path from legal mandates to technical execution, helping Engineering and SecOps teams shift from reactive scanning to a proactive, audit-ready architecture.

Download the checklist to operationalize:

• Phases 1 & 2 - Detection & Alerting: Enrich scanners with CISA KEV feeds to filter noise and build the automated escalation pipelines required for the mandatory 24-hour exploit reporting deadline.
• Phase 3 - Automated SBOM Inventory: Generate native SPDX/CycloneDX SBOMs within your build process, creating a centralized, queryable repository for instant incident response.
• Phases 4 & 5 - Secure-by-Design: Deploy policy-as-code gates to block builds with fixable critical CVEs, and leverage VEX/VDR artifacts to document non-exploitability without breaking build velocity.
• Phase 6 - Audit Readiness: Accurately identify your CRA product tier (0, 1, or 2) and structure your technical artifacts to satisfy self-assessments or mandatory external audits.