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CRA Compliance Solution Brief: Beat the Deadline with Chainloop

Daniel Liszka

Automate Compliance. Ship Faster. Stay Audit-Ready.

CRA Compliance Solution Brief: Beat the Deadline with Chainloop

The EU Cyber Resilience Act introduces strict new requirements for software producers operating in the European market. Starting September 2026, vulnerability reporting becomes mandatory. By December 2027, full CRA compliance is required. Non-compliant products may be removed from the EU market and face significant penalties.

But manual compliance won’t scale. Most teams still rely on spreadsheets, internal trackers, or scattered tools that aren’t built to support continuous audits or fast-changing regulatory environments.

To help teams move from reactive compliance to a proactive, automated approach, we’ve published a new resource:

The Solution Brief: Beat the CRA Deadline

What’s Inside the Brief

This 12-page, practical guide outlines a clear 3-phase plan for CRA adoption—designed to help you start now, build gradually, and stay ahead of every deadline. You’ll get:

  • A breakdown of key CRA milestones, including what’s required in 2026 and 2027
  • A structured 3-phase adoption plan focused on vulnerability management, secure-by-design practices, and transparency and documentation
  • Guidance on how to turn high-level CRA requirements into trackable, automated policies in your CI/CD pipelines
  • An overview of Chainloop’s platform: from our central evidence store to curated catalog of compliance policies and frameworks and real-time dashboards
  • A look at how teams are already reducing audit prep from weeks to hours

Why Chainloop

Chainloop enables continuous CRA readiness by integrating compliance directly into your software delivery workflows, turning what was once a manual burden into a repeatable, automated process.

Here’s why teams trust Chainloop for CRA and beyond:

  • Centralized Evidence Store
    Store and link all SDLC artifacts, pieces of evidence, and metadata (scan results, signatures, build metadata, etc.) in one secure, signed graph you control.

  • Open Source Core with Enterprise Support
    Start with our open source foundation or deploy our enterprise edition, self-hosted or fully managed. No vendor lock-in.

  • Curated CRA Policy Catalog
    Get started fast with production-ready policies covering SBOM validation, vulnerability response, and more.

  • Real-Time Policy Enforcement
    Express CRA, SSDF, or custom internal controls as policies and enforce them automatically across pipelines and teams.

  • Works With Any Stack
    Chainloop integrates with your existing CI/CD systems, DevSecOps tools, PKI, and cloud platform.

  • Proven in Regulated Environments
    From financial services to government software factories, Chainloop is trusted where security, traceability, and speed matter most.

Turn Compliance Into a Continuous, Scalable Process

Download the CRA Solution Brief

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