Every route to the EU market now passes through the Cyber Resilience Act (CRA). It requires products with digital elements to be secure by design & by default, and from December 2027, those that fall short of complying won't gain market access.
The CRA is a complex regulation, with obligations that vary by product category, and meeting them takes a structured approach, not a one-time fix. Our cybersecurity compliance services combine CRA consulting with hands-on product security engineering, security assurance, and compliance evidence preparation.
Sigma Software experts help businesses navigate compliance complexity, all the way through. We assess what requirements apply to your product, evaluate how compliant your current device and process are, close compliance gaps, and prepare you for CRA conformity.
Under the CRA, robust cybersecurity practices are becoming a built-in requirement for products entering and operating in the EU market. However, it is no longer limited to compliance at the point of launch. Companies are now expected to design, deliver, and maintain products with security in mind throughout the entire lifecycle
We help organizations evaluate their existing products, identify compliance gaps, and implement required security and process updates to operate in the European Union market.
We work alongside the client's product and engineering teams to introduce secure development practices. Our team also helps organizations select, configure, and integrate CRA compliance controls, including software and security tooling, into existing pipelines without slowing delivery.
Companies outside the EU may find it challenging to navigate CRA obligations when entering the EU market. We support these businesses by determining whether and how the CRA applies to their products, translating regulatory requirements into practical steps to achieve compliance.
Businesses approaching CRA certification need to ensure that all required controls, documentation, and evidence are in place. Our team guides the preparation process by structuring documentation, validating compliance, and ensuring readiness for CE marking.
Whether you are evaluating how the CRA affects your product or reviewing existing compliance efforts before an audit, it is important to clearly understand your current status. As a cyber resilience consulting partner, we translate CRA requirements into practical product, engineering, and governance processes.Through a fixed-cost, three-week engagement, we deliver a structured findings report and a prioritized compliance roadmap to help you move forward with confidence and make decisions based on evidence.
What we do:
Let your team focus on what they are best at – engineering and product features development. We handle the CRA compliance work in the background.Our experts take full ownership of the CRA implementation process from risk assessment and secure development practices to vulnerability management and documentation.
What we do:
When CRA affects a significant portion of your portfolio, a product-by-product approach can be a challenge.Our tailored compliance approach helps manage compliance efficiently at the portfolio level. We design the governance structure, processes, and standards that embed CRA requirements into how your organization already operates, so consistency holds across locations, markets, product types, and team maturity levels.
What we do:
Many teams that handle CRA compliance internally often reach a point where specific requirements are difficult to interpret, or technical decisions require an experienced second perspective.Our CRA Compliance Consulting service provides you with flexible access to CRA specialists for clearly defined, scoped engagements. Whether you need support answering a complex compliance question or delivering a specific piece of work, we provide practical expertise tailored to your needs.
What we do:
Secure development is the key CRA requirement and often requires major changes to the existing development process. We help clients establish a secure SDLC aligned with CRA requirements without disrupting existing engineering workflows.Our team builds S-SDLC based on the OWASP SAMM – a CRA-recognized reference framework that covers the full scope of infosecurity work required. The result is a secure SDLC that fits into your existing workflows, with the right tools and clear compliance evidence built in.
What we do:
The CRA makes SBOM a mandatory requirement for most products in scope, but it leaves implementation choices (format, tooling, integration approach) to each organization. This is where the challenge starts. Without a defined approach, different product teams may use different tools and workflows, which leads to inconsistencies in SBOMs and extra maintenance later.We help you select the right setup for your product and pipeline, implement the tooling that generates SBOM as part of your standard build, and establish the process around it. Thus, your SBOM implementation remains accurate, current, and actionable across the product lifecycle.
What we do:
The Client, a software company with a broad product portfolio, needed every product in their lineup to be CRA compliance-ready. Given the breadth of the portfolio, tight deadlines, and the novelty of the regulation, handling compliance separately for each product would have taken too much time and effort.
We assessed their current compliance posture, designed and validated the CRA process flow, created a unified compliance program, and equipped the Client’s teams to operate it portfolio-wide.
Our Client, an Asian IoT hardware company, was preparing to enter the European market and needed to establish a secure SDLC for CRA compliance.
As rebuilding the SDLC could postpone the product release, we offered an alternative: our security consultants joined their development cycle directly. We worked in parallel with the features delivery, tackled compliance requirements hands-on, and handed off tasks to team members with the context they needed.
The Client was preparing for regulatory compliance, but wasn’t sure which regulation actually applied to their product. The device sat at the boundary between the EU Cyber Resilience Act and the Medical Device Regulation. Each regulation has different requirements, so investing in compliance with the wrong one could lead to wasted resources.
We mapped the product against both regulations and confirmed that CRA was the one that applied. Further, we conducted a CRA gap assessment and provided a detailed roadmap for compliance with clear visibility into the work required at each stage.
A smart home device manufacturer needed to bring their product into full CRA compliance and looked for an experienced security partner to take ownership of their compliance track.
The Sigma Software team ran a gap assessment, reviewing the device, its firmware, and the surrounding development processes against CRA requirements to identify priority areas. The next step was to create a compliance roadmap, translating assessment findings into a structured, sequenced plan. We worked alongside the engineers to implement each requirement hands-on, producing CRA-ready documentation and freeing the in-house team to focus on product development.
Our CRA compliance experts inspect your security posture, benchmark it with CRA requirements, and create a roadmap with action points to achieve compliance.
At this stage, we support you through:
We develop and implement necessary controls following the CRA BSI Technical Guideline & security standards: ETSI EN 303 645, IEC 62443, OWASP SAMM, NIST SP 800-40, etc.
At this stage, we support you through:
Our experts ensure alignment of your tools and processes with the EU Cyber Resilience Act, running control effectiveness checks, and offering compliance maintenance.
At this stage, we support you through:
Risks don’t wait for launch day. We catch them at every stage of the product lifecycle and resolve potential issues before they impact the compliance track.
Our team embeds security requirements into the product from day one to ensure identified risks are handled through established controls in line with CRA requirements.
Our experts set up a reliable process for finding, assessing, and fixing product vulnerabilities, from initial discovery to the secure delivery of updates. This way, businesses get clear ownership and visibility over vulnerabilities and their remediation.
CRA-required documentation must accurately reflect the product and remain up to date throughout its lifecycle. We help keep the evidence complete, consistent, and ready for review.
As a software development company, we go beyond compliance policies.
Building products that are secure by design to avoid high remediation costs.
The CRA sets security goals, but not the ways or practices to achieve them.
We help businesses identify & apply the right standards for successful compliance.
Securing an embedded device means ensuring the entire network's safety.
We know how to protect embedded systems, preventing cascading vulnerabilities.
As a trusted OWASP practitioner, we leverage its practices across diverse layers.
From security audit & code scanning to security training, penetration testing & more.
CRA compliance means your product meets the mandatory cybersecurity requirements established by the EU Cyber Resilience Act. The compliance status confirms that it is designed, developed, and maintained in line with the security standards required by regulators and can access the European market.
Yes, any software that is made available on the EU market and installed or executed locally on user hardware falls within the scope of the regulation. Exceptions include software regulated under other EU legislation, standalone SaaS that does not require local installation, and free and open-source software provided on a non-commercial basis.
Any organization selling software products in the EU market must comply with CRA regulation, regardless of its country of origin. Non-EU manufacturers have to align with the same cybersecurity, documentation, and conformity assessment requirements as their EU counterparts before offering software to European customers. Failure to meet these requirements can restrict access to the EU market.
The assessment audits a company’s products and processes against EU Cyber Resilience Act (CRA) requirements, covering the following areas:
There is no single tool that ensures CRA compliance. Most organizations need a combination of tools across several categories, including SBOM generation, vulnerability management, and documentation management.
The biggest challenge is selecting the right toolset without slowing down delivery or adding operational overhead. The optimal setup depends on your product, technology stack, development processes, and risk profile.
Preparation usually starts with identifying compliance gaps and addressing them before the assessment process begins.
Organizations need to establish required security controls, document how cybersecurity risks are managed, create and maintain compliance evidence, and demonstrate that security activities are embedded throughout the product lifecycle. A readiness review before conformity assessment helps validate that documentation, processes, and technical controls are in place and support CE marking requirements.
