Cyber Resilience Act (CRA) Gap Assessment

The CRA Gap Assessment is a structured engagement designed to prepare your organization for the upcoming Cyber Resilience Act (CRA) requirements. This phase ensures your products and processes meet regulatory obligations while strengthening overall cybersecurity posture by focusing on what matters.

The CRA introduces mandatory security measures, vulnerability management, and compliance documentation for digital products. Our Gap Assessment provides a tailored approach to evaluate your current state, identify compliance gaps, and define a roadmap for implementation. This proactive strategy mitigates compliance risks and positions your organization for long-term success.

• Regulatory Understanding: Deep dive into CRA obligations, timelines, and enforcement mechanisms.
• Knowledge of Gaps: Identify gaps in your current processes and define actions to reduce compliance risks.
• Strategic Alignment: Ensure leadership and technical teams share a common vision for CRA readiness.
• Practical Guidance: Learn best practices for secure development, vulnerability management, documentation, leveraging solutions by AWS and appropriate cloud-native solutions.

• Business Outcomes: Define compliance objectives and align stakeholders on CRA readiness.
• Current State Review: Assess existing security processes, documentation, and product lifecycle practices.
• Complexity Assessment: Identify challenges and dependencies impacting CRA compliance.

• CRA Gap Assessment and Risk Analysis: Map current practices against CRA requirements and prioritize remediation.
• Threat Analysis: Evaluate product security risks and integrate threat modeling into development workflows.
• Skill Gap Analysis: Assess team capabilities for secure development, vulnerability management, and compliance reporting.
• Collaborative Workshops: Facilitate sessions to align technical and business teams on compliance strategy.

• Stakeholder Needs Analysis: Identify roles and responsibilities for CRA compliance.
• Roadmap Development: Define short, medium, and long term actions for implementation.
• Supporting During Implementation: Provide guidance on embedding CRA requirements into development and operational processes, including securing various cloud platforms, such as using AWS Security Hub and AWS IoT Device Defender.

Following the activities, we will provide a comprehensive report, which may include the following:

• Executive Presentation: Key findings and actionable insights for leadership.
• CRA Gap Assessment Report: Detailed compliance gaps and prioritized and actionable recommendations.
• Risk and Threat Analysis Report: Overview of security hot spots and mitigation strategies.
• CRA Compliance Roadmap: Practical steps for implementation.
• Best Practice Toolkit: Templates for secure development and vulnerability management.
• MVP and Cost Proposal: Clear proposal for initial implementation steps and associated costs.

As needed based on the gap assessment, Zühlke can take ownership of implementing the recommended actions. In the Implementation Support Phase, Zühlke experts assist in closing gaps in your product lifecycle and engineering, ensuring timely and pragmatic readiness for CRA compliance.