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Cyber Resilience Act · Article 14 · Applies 11 September 2026

The CRA gives you 24 hours. Your CVE feed gives you weeks

SBOM, exploitation intelligence, risk exceptions and remediation are one pipeline in Phoenix, not four compliance projects.

ARTICLE 14 · TIME REMAINING

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What is CRA?

Every manufacturer shipping a product with digital elements now has a clock running against it

The Cyber Resilience Act (CRA) is an EU law, not a guideline or a best-practice framework. It applies to anyone who manufactures software or hardware with digital elements sold into the EU, and it requires them to build in security by design and report actively exploited vulnerabilities on a strict clock. It entered into force in December 2024. Its reporting obligations, the part that actually bites, apply from 11 September 2026.

Awareness gap
Exploitation begins. The clock has not started because nobody has noticed.
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Early warning filed through the ENISA Single Reporting Platform.
T+72h
Full notification: nature of the flaw, corrective and mitigating measures.
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Final report once a corrective measure exists. One month for severe incidents.

Why Now?

Your SBOM was never the hard part. Knowing what's exploitable is.

Most manufacturers already generate an SBOM for customers. On 11 September, that's the floor, not the finish line.

descriptionSBOM alone

Every match becomes a question

Publishing a component list without an exploitability answer means every CVE match turns into a customer support ticket, with your name on the false positives.

Noise multiplies at scale.
verifiedSBOM + VEX

A signed answer per component

Your risk exception register already makes these calls: not reachable, mitigated, accepted, fixed. It just needs a place to be signed and filed.

Built to close the gap before 11 September.

What Should You Do?

This applies to you if you place a product with digital elements on the EU market

If any of this sounds like you, the clock already applies, and the sooner you know, the more of the 24 hours you actually have.

Software vendors Hardware with embedded software IoT and connected devices SaaS sold into the EU Open-source maintainers shipping binaries

How can Phoenix help?

One pipeline. Five modules. One evidence chain.

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Blue

Exploitation evidence lands, or a malicious package is confirmed. Campaign and repeat-offender context attaches to the verdict.

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Orange

Affected products, versions and owners resolved through the build-file pivot and ownership attribution.

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Reachability and exposure assessed. Exploitability position drafted against the affected component.

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Early warning filed through the ENISA Single Reporting Platform from the register.

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Green

Fix bundle or compensating control identified. Corrective and mitigating measures stated.

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Corrective measure shipped, exception records reconciled, final report filed.

Next step

The clock is not counting down to a document. It is counting down to a question.

Run the 24-hour tabletop against an event from your own history, using a malicious-package incident rather than a CVE, since that is the trigger most programmes cannot see.

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