Closing CRA compliance gaps with artifact management

The Cyber Resilience Act (CRA) is a regulatory framework focusing on product security, emphasizing continuous vulnerability management, rapid incident reporting, and documented conformity for software products. It extends liability to include the components within products, such as open-source packages and transitive dependencies, holding manufacturers responsible for vulnerabilities, rather than upstream maintainers. The CRA mandates a stringent reporting timeline, requiring notification of the European Union Agency for Cybersecurity within 24 hours of awareness of an actively exploited vulnerability. To comply, organizations must establish a governed control point that manages the flow of packages through a private registry, enabling proactive vulnerability management and maintaining an auditable trail of artifact events. This infrastructure facilitates compliance by intercepting potentially malicious packages before they enter the build process and continuously monitoring for new threats. Cloudsmith offers a solution that integrates this controlled environment, which provides visibility, security enforcement, and audit capabilities, making it an operational foundation for CRA compliance rather than a standalone compliance tool.

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