EU CRA compliance for secure-by-design software.
Aptori helps software manufacturers, product teams, SaaS providers, telecom suppliers, and open source maintainers operationalize EU Cyber Resilience Act compliance with SBOM-driven evidence, secure-by-design validation, vulnerability handling, CSAF v2.0 workflows, Annex V Declaration of Conformity generation, standards-drift detection, and AI-assisted remediation.
The CRA turns product cybersecurity into a market access requirement.
The EU Cyber Resilience Act applies to products with digital elements and introduces cybersecurity obligations across the product lifecycle. The European Commission states that the CRA entered into force on 10 December 2024, reporting obligations apply from 11 September 2026, and the main obligations apply from 11 December 2027. Products must also support CE-marking compliance.
Products with digital elements
EU CRA compliance applies broadly to software and connected products placed on the EU market, making application security, product security, and software supply chain visibility essential.
Secure-by-design obligations
Product teams must prove that security is built into development and maintained across the lifecycle. Aptori links CRA readiness to secure-by-design application security.
Vulnerability handling and reporting
From September 2026, manufacturers must report actively exploited vulnerabilities and severe incidents impacting product security. Aptori supports evidence-driven continuous vulnerability management.
Move from CRA interpretation to CRA operationalization.
Connect SBOMs, vulnerabilities, CSAF advisories, remediation, declarations, and evidence.
From SBOM to conformity evidence.
Aptori turns CRA readiness into a repeatable workflow that connects software inventory, vulnerability intelligence, secure-by-design validation, standards monitoring, and compliance evidence.
Map EU CRA obligations to operational security workflows.
Aptori helps teams connect Cyber Resilience Act requirements to practical security workflows across SBOMs, vulnerability handling, product security evidence, secure development, conformity assessment support, and post-market maintenance.
Product cybersecurity
Software composition
Declaration of Conformity
Disclosure and remediation
OSS steward profile
Continuous monitoring
PQC and CNSA
Generate EU CRA Annex V Declarations of Conformity from the SBOM.
CRA compliance requires more than producing a static SBOM. Teams need traceability from product identity to software inventory, vulnerability status, security controls, remediation records, and conformity evidence. Aptori automates this operational layer by generating your Annex V Declaration of Conformity directly from the SBOM.
SBOM-backed declarations
Use the SBOM as the source of truth for product components, dependencies, and software security evidence.
Traceable evidence
Connect declaration content to vulnerability status, remediation history, advisories, and control validation.
Reduced manual overhead
Reduce spreadsheet-driven compliance work by generating conformity artifacts from continuously maintained security data.
Turn SBOM data into CRA conformity evidence.
Generate declarations, track vulnerabilities, and maintain evidence continuously.
Full CSAF v2.0 round-trip support for CRA vulnerability workflows.
CSAF v2.0 is the OASIS standard for structured, machine-readable security advisories. Aptori supports full CSAF v2.0 round-trip workflows, including ingest and emit, so teams can operationalize coordinated vulnerability disclosure, advisory consumption, and remediation communication.
Ingest CSAF advisories
Consume structured advisories and connect them to affected products, components, vulnerabilities, and remediation workflows.
Emit CSAF advisories
Generate machine-readable security advisories for downstream customers, maintainers, partners, and stakeholders.
Automate vulnerability coordination
Connect disclosure, impact, remediation, product status, and evidence into a repeatable CRA vulnerability handling workflow.
Support supply chain transparency
Use CSAF and SBOM together to make vulnerability information more actionable across product and software supply chains.
Article 24 open source steward support for maintainers.
The CRA creates specific considerations for open source software stewards and maintainers. Aptori includes an Article 24 OSS steward profile designed to help maintainers track vulnerabilities, generate advisory evidence, support security maintenance, and communicate risk in a structured way.
Maintainer workflows
Support open source maintainers with vulnerability tracking, remediation evidence, and structured advisory workflows.
Steward profile
Use a dedicated Article 24 OSS steward profile to align maintainer activities with CRA expectations.
CSAF and SBOM alignment
Connect open source vulnerability advisories, product impact, component inventory, and downstream remediation communication.
Continuous CRA standards-drift detection in watch mode.
CRA readiness is not a one-time project. Standards, harmonized expectations, security profiles, cryptography requirements, and product classifications will continue to evolve. Aptori watch mode helps detect CRA standards drift so product security and compliance teams can keep controls, evidence, and remediation workflows aligned.
Monitor changing expectations
Track standards and compliance profile drift so teams can understand what changed and what needs review.
Identify affected products
Connect drift signals to product inventory, SBOMs, dependencies, controls, and evidence records.
Preserve continuous readiness
Keep CRA evidence aligned as standards mature and product security obligations evolve.
14 compliance levels, including CNSA 2.0 and NIST PQC.
Aptori supports advanced compliance levels for organizations preparing for higher-assurance software security, regulated infrastructure, telecom security, sovereign requirements, and post-quantum cryptography readiness.
NIST PQC readiness
Support post-quantum cryptography planning and evidence workflows as enterprises prepare for cryptographic transition.
CNSA 2.0 profile
Support high-assurance compliance alignment for organizations with advanced cryptographic and infrastructure security requirements.
Multi-level compliance
Track 14 compliance levels across security standards, vulnerability handling, evidence, and product security workflows.
Built for organizations shipping software and digital products into the EU.
Aptori helps teams that need to prove secure-by-design practices, vulnerability handling, technical documentation, SBOM readiness, and post-market security maintenance for products with digital elements.
Software vendors
Operationalize secure development, vulnerability handling, advisories, and conformity evidence.
SaaS providers
Validate applications, APIs, dependencies, runtime behavior, and vulnerability remediation evidence.
Device manufacturers
Connect product security evidence, SBOMs, advisories, and lifecycle maintenance workflows.
IoT product teams
Track software components, vulnerabilities, advisories, remediation, and product security obligations.
Telecom suppliers
Support advanced security profiles, API validation, supply chain risk, and post-quantum readiness.
Open source stewards
Use Article 24 OSS steward workflows for maintainers and vulnerability handling.
Compliance teams
Generate audit-ready CRA evidence, declarations, advisories, and standards drift records.
Security teams
Prioritize exploitable risk, validate fixes, and maintain security evidence continuously.
Runtime-driven product security for EU CRA compliance.
Aptori connects application security, API security, software composition analysis, SBOMs, advisories, secure-by-design validation, remediation, and compliance evidence into one operational platform.
Software Composition Analysis and SBOM
Manage dependencies, reachability, SBOMs, product inventory, vulnerability status, and remediation workflows. Explore Software Composition Analysis.
Secure Code Review
Validate code, control flow, data flow, dependency usage, and remediation quality before product release. Explore Secure Code Review.
Semantic Runtime Validation
Validate real application and API behavior to prove exploitability, control effectiveness, and remediation quality. Explore Semantic Runtime Validation.
AI Security Engineer
Use AI-assisted remediation to triage vulnerabilities, guide fixes, validate changes, and preserve evidence. Explore AI Security Engineer.
Explore the EU CRA compliance cluster.
Explore additional guidance on secure application development and regulatory readiness. Organizations navigating evolving regulations need a practical approach to security, compliance, and continuous assurance. Explore related Aptori resources covering secure-by-design practices, application security strategies, and guidance across major regulatory frameworks.
Application Security Compliance
Learn how organizations can align application security programs with evolving regulations.
Secure-by-Design
Operationalize secure-by-design application and product security.
SCA and SBOM
Manage dependencies, reachability, SBOMs, and remediation workflows.
Continuous Vulnerability Management
Prioritize, remediate, validate, and report exploitable risk continuously.
Audit Evidence
Generate compliance evidence for product, security, and audit teams.
API Security Compliance
Validate APIs, authorization, business logic, and sensitive data flows.
Semantic Runtime Validation
Prove exploitability and control effectiveness in runtime behavior.
AI Security Engineer
Use AI agents to triage, remediate, validate, and document security work.
EU CRA compliance questions.
What is EU CRA compliance?
EU CRA compliance means meeting the Cyber Resilience Act cybersecurity requirements for products with digital elements, including secure-by-design development, vulnerability handling, reporting obligations, technical documentation, conformity assessment, and post-market security maintenance.
How does Aptori help with EU CRA compliance?
Aptori helps organizations operationalize EU CRA compliance through secure-by-design validation, SBOM analysis, Annex V Declaration of Conformity generation, CSAF v2.0 ingest and emit, vulnerability handling, standards drift detection, AI remediation, and audit-ready evidence.
Can Aptori generate an EU CRA Annex V Declaration of Conformity?
Yes. Aptori can generate an Annex V Declaration of Conformity directly from the SBOM, helping teams connect product inventory, vulnerability evidence, conformity records, and technical documentation.
Does Aptori support CSAF v2.0?
Yes. Aptori supports full CSAF v2.0 round-trip workflows, including ingesting and emitting machine-readable security advisories for vulnerability coordination and disclosure.
How does Aptori support Article 24 OSS steward workflows?
Aptori provides an Article 24 OSS steward profile for maintainers, helping open source stewards manage vulnerability handling, advisories, evidence, and maintainer-oriented security workflows.
How does Aptori detect CRA standards drift?
Aptori supports CRA standards-drift detection in watch mode, helping teams monitor changes in relevant compliance profiles, standards expectations, and security requirements over time.
Operationalize EU CRA compliance from SBOM to declaration.
See how Aptori helps teams generate Annex V Declarations of Conformity from SBOMs, support CSAF v2.0 round-trip workflows, manage vulnerability handling, detect CRA standards drift, and maintain audit-ready product security evidence.
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