Build the foundation for continuous CRA compliance
Under the EU Cyber Resilience Act (CRA), manufacturers now face direct liability for unpatched, exploitable vulnerabilities. Failure to demonstrate regulatory conformity can result in severe financial penalties and a prohibition from selling products within the EU market. This requires software producers to understand what is in their products, continuously monitor for vulnerabilities, and maintain documentation that supports remediation, reporting, and compliance assessments.
Meeting the stringent, overlapping demands of the EU CRA requires “CompOps“—compliance operations that Anchore Enterprise delivers through automation integrated directly into the software development lifecycle.
Automating SBOM generation and management
Take action on your EU-distributed digital products by generating high-fidelity Software Bill of Materials (SBOM) for each one. List all top-level software components along with their transitive dependencies in a machine-readable format like SPDX or CycloneDX, and add the final document to your technical documentation.
Rapid incident reporting and prioritization
Continuously scan stored Software Bills of Materials (SBOMs) against real-time threat intelligence, CISA KEV feeds, and recognized vulnerability datasets, such as NVD (with data enrichment by Anchore), GHSA, MSRC, and popular distros like RHEL, Debian, Ubuntu, and many others. This detailed risk data supports mandatory reporting timelines, including the 24-hour early warning and 72-hour official notification windows. Identify newly disclosed vulnerabilities, assess product impact, and prioritize remediation based on severity, exploitability, and organizational context.
Secure-by design requirements with CI/CD policy gates
Implement automated policy gates within the build pipeline. Use deep Policy-as-Code capabilities that automatically block builds containing critical, fixable vulnerabilities before they reach the registry.
CRA vulnerability reporting using global search
Quickly assess products impacted by vulnerabilities or vulnerable packages by searching across all SBOMs to understand the blast radius and make informed remediation decisions. Generate reports to assemble the information needed for CRA vulnerability-reporting workflows.
CRA evidence of conformity with SBOM, VDR, & VEX downloads
Create a central system of record for auditors. Use VEX annotations to suppress false positives and generate comprehensive historical audit trails and compliance dashboards to deliver the exact evidence Notified Bodies and external auditors require to validate your Secure-by-Design claims.
What is the EU Cyber Resilience Act? 
