The Cyber Resilience Act (CRA) introduces a requirement that many engineering teams are still trying to operationalize: report actively exploited vulnerabilities and incidents within 24 hours.
At first glance, that sounds straightforward. Until you ask one simple question:
- When does that 24-hour clock actually start? -Is it when a vulnerability appears in your Software Bill of Materials (SBOM)?
- When your Software Composition Analysis (SCA) tool raises an alert?
- When an exploit becomes public?
- Or only after you've confirmed that your product is actually affected?
For many organizations, those are very different moments.
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Modern development teams receive thousands of security findings every week.
Most come from:
- Software Composition Analysis (SCA)
- SBOM scanning
- Dependency monitoring
- Container image scanning
- Secret detection
The challenge isn't finding vulnerabilities anymore.
The challenge is determining which findings actually require action.
Without a structured workflow, teams either:
- waste valuable time investigating non-issues,
- or worse, miss the moment when a vulnerability becomes a reportable incident.
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An SBOM tells you what components you use.
SCA tells you which components are vulnerable.
But neither automatically tells you:
- Is the vulnerable code actually reachable?
- Is it exploitable in your environment?
- Which product versions are affected?
- Who should be notified?
- Has the CRA notification clock started?
Answering those questions requires more than vulnerability scanningโit requires a repeatable incident response workflow.
A practical session for engineering and security teams
If you're working in:AppSec, DevSecOps, Platform Engineering, Product Security, Vulnerability Management
Xygeni & SecureHabits are hosting a free live webinar where we'll walk through a practical approach to CRA notification readiness.
We'll cover:
- Generating and using SBOMs
- Prioritizing SCA findings
- Reachability and exploitability analysis
- Notification workflows
- What actually triggers the CRA's 24-hour ENISA reporting requirement
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Register here๐https://www.linkedin.com/events/7483444225196515328/
Whether your organization is already preparing for the CRA or just beginning to understand its impact, the goal is to leave with a workflow you can applyโnot just another compliance checklist.
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