CRA reporting starts before the 24-hour clock
A deadline is manageable when product identity, runtime exposure, business impact and technical evidence are already connected.
From 11 September 2026, the EU Cyber Resilience Act requires manufacturers to report actively exploited vulnerabilities and severe incidents affecting the security of products with digital elements. The first warning can be due within 24 hours, followed by a fuller notification within 72 hours.
This is not a general requirement for every company to publish its complete cybersecurity posture. It is a product-security obligation with a defined scope. The official notification goes through the CRA Single Reporting Platform to the relevant CSIRT and ENISA. The European Commission reporting guidance remains the authoritative operational reference.
The hard work happens before submission
A scanner finding alone does not answer the questions needed for triage. Teams still need to establish whether the vulnerable component belongs to an affected product, whether it is deployed, which workloads use it, whether those workloads are reachable and what business function could be affected.
Those facts usually live in separate systems: image scanners, SBOM repositories, Kubernetes or Docker inventory, network telemetry, asset registers, tickets and incident notes. Collecting them after the clock starts creates delay and weakens confidence in the decision.
Build one traceable evidence case
A useful readiness workflow connects four layers:
- Observation: the vulnerability, exploit evidence, incident signal or failed control.
- Operational context: affected image, active workload, deployment state and internet reachability.
- Business context: product relationship, asset criticality, ownership and likely impact.
- Decision record: priority, reasoning, remediation state, accepted risk and source evidence.
This produces a defensible technical package for the security and product teams responsible for determining the next action. It also preserves what was known, when it was known and why a particular decision was made.
Where CyberMeasures fits
CyberMeasures operates before the official reporting channel. It collects technical evidence, deduplicates findings by active image and workload, adds internet exposure and business criticality, explains priority and preserves remediation or risk decisions.
The result is an evidence package that can support incident response, leadership review and regulatory reporting preparation. CyberMeasures does not make the legal determination or submit the official notification. Those responsibilities remain with the manufacturer and its legal and product-security functions.
Start with one product
Choose one internet-facing product and trace a real vulnerability from component to running workload, product owner and evidence record. Measure how long the process takes and which facts require manual investigation. Those missing links define the first useful integration scope.