If you manufacture or distribute products with digital elements in the European Union, the Cyber Resilience Act (CRA) is now your most important regulatory obligation. Manual compliance is slow, expensive, and error-prone. CRA compliance software automates risk assessments, generates declarations of conformity, and keeps your engineering and legal teams aligned — without the spreadsheet chaos.
Here's a problem you might not have thought about: before the Cyber Resilience Act, most hardware and software products had no mandatory cybersecurity requirements at all. A smart camera, a connected thermostat, a SaaS platform — none of them needed to meet any baseline security standard to be sold in the EU. The CRA (Regulation 2024/2847) changes that, and it's going to affect every company that makes or sells products with digital elements.
The Act entered into force in 2024, with obligations phasing in through 2027. If you make connected devices, operating systems, or even mobile apps sold in the EU, you're in scope.
NIS2 isn't just GDPR's cybersecurity cousin — it's a fundamentally different beast. The Directive (2022/2555) expands mandatory cybersecurity far beyond the original NIS, covering everything from energy and transport to digital infrastructure and public administration. Penalties hit €10 million or 2% of global turnover, and management faces personal liability.
If you're in a "highly critical" sector (energy, transport, health, digital infrastructure), the compliance bar is higher than you think. NIS2 compliance software won't make your network secure, but it'll document the risk management measures and incident reporting that regulators look for.