DevSecOps & EU CRA Readiness
Turn the EU Cyber Resilience Act into an engineering deliverable — not a compliance binder
The EU Cyber Resilience Act reaches its first hard deadline in September 2026, and it applies to every vendor that places products with digital elements on the EU market — wherever your engineering team happens to sit. Reporting obligations, machine-readable SBOMs, continuous vulnerability handling: these are technical controls, not policy documents, and most product teams have no DevSecOps capacity to build them. We embed security by design directly into your existing CI/CD, whether that is GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, or a self-hosted runner: automated SBOM generation, risk-based vulnerability management, and a secure development lifecycle expressed as code. Real engineering — no compliance theater.
CRA self-assessment conducted internally. SBOM generation (CycloneDX 1.6) and gap analysis against Annex I/II documented — hands-on experience.
ChallengesWhy the CRA is an engineering problem, not a paperwork one
Any organisation that ships hardware, software, or connected devices into the EU falls under the Cyber Resilience Act — including vendors headquartered outside the Union that sell across the border. The obligations translate almost entirely into engineering work: machine-readable SBOMs, continuous vulnerability handling, and time-boxed incident reporting. That is precisely where product teams tend to have the least in-house depth.
Reporting obligations from September 2026
Actively exploited vulnerabilities must be reported to ENISA within 24 hours. Without a defined incident reporting workflow and escalation chains, this is practically impossible.
No SBOM processes in place
48% of security leaders are behind on SBOM standards. Machine-readable SBOMs are a CRA obligation, yet few CI/CD pipelines generate them automatically per release.
Vulnerability management is missing
Without automated scanning and risk-based prioritization, vulnerabilities go undetected. The CRA requires vulnerability handling throughout the entire support period.
No secure development lifecycle
Security gates in the pipeline — SAST, DAST, secrets detection — are not implemented at many companies. The CRA requires demonstrable cybersecurity risk assessment before market launch.
Missing CRA documentation
Technical documentation per Annex II and post-market monitoring per Annex VII require structured processes. Manual approaches don't scale.
Supply chain pressure from all sides
Suppliers must also demonstrate CRA compliance. Procurement departments increasingly demand SBOMs and security evidence — those who can't deliver get dropped from supply chains.
Delivery ModelsThree paths to CRA readiness — you decide
We are a technical implementation partner, not a compliance consultancy: we build and wire up the controls the regulation demands rather than producing advisory memos. Because we work as an EU-based engineering team, delivery flexes to your timeline and your risk exposure — from a focused entry sprint to fully managed operation.
CRA Sprint — project-based entry
2–4 weeks of intensive assessment and implementation of the most critical gaps. Ideal as a starting point: you receive a gap analysis against CRA Annex I, a prioritized roadmap, and the first technical controls in your pipeline.
Managed Service — ongoing compliance
Continuous vulnerability monitoring, SBOM updates with every release, and incident response support as a subscription. krafteq ensures your compliance processes stay current — even as requirements evolve.
Team Enablement — build internal expertise
krafteq engineers work alongside your team, transfer DevSecOps knowledge, and build internal capabilities. The goal: your team is empowered, not made dependent.
SBOM integration into the pipeline
CycloneDX or SPDX generation as an automatic pipeline step. Versioned SBOMs per release. Dependency tracking and vulnerability monitoring — all integrated into your existing CI/CD infrastructure.
Incident reporting workflow
Implementation of the 24h/72h/14d reporting workflow for the ENISA Single Reporting Platform. Escalation chains, templates, approval gates — so your organization can act decisively when incidents occur.
Coordinated Vulnerability Disclosure
security.txt, public disclosure policy, intake forms, triage workflow, and advisory publishing. CRA-compliant and practical.
ProcessHow we make your delivery pipeline CRA-ready
Our approach follows a clear structure. Each step delivers standalone results and brings you closer to CRA compliance.
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CRA Technical Assessment (Day 1–3)
Gap analysis of existing SDLC, CI/CD, and dependency management processes against CRA Annex I requirements. Scope determination (Default / Important Class I / II / Critical). You receive a prioritized roadmap with concrete actions.
Clarity about your CRA scope and the most critical gaps
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SBOM and Vulnerability Management (Week 1–2)
Implement CycloneDX/SPDX generation as a pipeline step. Set up automated vulnerability scanning in CI/CD. Risk-based prioritization with defined remediation SLAs: Critical 24h, High 7d, Medium 30d, Low 90d.
Automatic SBOM generation and vulnerability tracking per release
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Incident Reporting and Secure SDLC (Week 2–4)
Implement the 24h/72h/14d reporting workflow. Security gates in the pipeline: SAST, DAST, secrets detection. Set up coordinated vulnerability disclosure. Technical documentation per Annex II/VII — auto-assembled where possible.
Reporting-obligation-ready and demonstrably secure development process
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Handover and Ongoing Operations (Week 3–4)
With managed service, krafteq handles ongoing monitoring and SBOM updates. For projects and enablement, we hand over to your team — with documented processes, runbooks, and handover workshops.
Sustainable CRA compliance — internally or through krafteq
ServicesWhat DevSecOps & CRA Compliance covers
Secure software development requires the technical controls and processes that the CRA demands — we implement them directly in your existing infrastructure. Engineering, not paper.
SBOM Generation
CycloneDX and SPDX generation as an automatic CI/CD pipeline step. Versioned SBOMs per release. Dependency tracking and vulnerability monitoring across the entire product lifecycle.
Vulnerability Management
Automated scanning in CI/CD: containers, dependencies, code. Risk-based prioritization with CVSS, EPSS, and reachability analysis. Defined remediation SLAs for each severity level.
Incident Reporting Workflow
Implementation of the CRA-compliant 24h/72h/14d reporting workflow for the ENISA Single Reporting Platform. Escalation chains, templates, and approval gates.
Secure Development Lifecycle
Security by design in the pipeline: SAST, DAST, secrets detection as fixed gates. Secure-by-default configurations and documented processes for CRA Annex II — GDPR-compliant software from the start.
Coordinated Vulnerability Disclosure
security.txt, public disclosure policy, intake forms, triage workflow, and advisory publishing. Everything the CRA requires for handling reported vulnerabilities.
CRA Documentation
Technical documentation per Annex II/VII — auto-assembled from pipeline artifacts, service catalog, and git history where possible. No manual document management.
ReferencesResults that speak for themselves
Internal self-assessment completed
krafteq conducted and documented the CRA self-assessment process internally. SBOM generation (CycloneDX 1.6), vulnerability scanning, and gap analysis against Annex I/II — hands-on experience, not theory.
Cycle time after pipeline hardening
Security gates integrated into CI/CD pipelines without sacrificing deployment speed. SBOM generation and vulnerability scanning as automatic pipeline steps.
Cloud cost reduction
DevSecOps and cost optimization go hand in hand. Infrastructure hardening and rightsizing at an enterprise client — security and efficiency are not contradictory.
Experience per engineer
Experienced senior engineers with 10+ years of hands-on experience. DevSecOps expertise from practice — CI/CD pipelines, Kubernetes security, compliance automation.
Where CRA readiness fits in your wider platform
For teams selling into the EU from abroad, the CRA rarely lands in isolation. It usually surfaces alongside broader questions about platform reliability, data residency, and who actually owns the pipeline. Treating it as a standalone audit tends to produce a binder that ages badly; treating it as part of how you build software keeps it current with every release.
That is why our CRA work dovetails with the rest of the platform. The reporting deadlines and SBOM automation sit naturally inside a hardened delivery pipeline, so many teams pair this with SRE, DevOps & platform engineering to make security gates part of everyday operations rather than a release-day scramble. If the driver is the regulation itself, our CRA compliance & DevSecOps solution frames the same controls around the Annex I/II obligations end to end. And because "demonstrably secure" ultimately means evidence, a solid QA and test-automation practice gives you the reproducible proof that conformity assessment expects.
DevSecOps & EU CRA Readiness — let's talk about it
Let us discuss how we can support your team.
“CRA compliance is not a paper problem — it's an engineering problem. SBOMs, secure pipelines, vulnerability management, incident reporting automation: this is craft that happens in the CI/CD pipeline, not in PowerPoint decks. That's exactly what we build.”
