CRA 24/72-Hour Reporting Readiness Drill — Early Access

A focused research drill for manufacturers of products with digital elements that need to operate under the Cyber Resilience Act reporting clock. From 11 September 2026, covered manufacturers must report actively exploited vulnerabilities and severe incidents through the EU Single Reporting Platform, with an early warning within 24 hours and a fuller notification within 72 hours.

What the drill checks

  • Awareness timestamp ownership and evidence
  • Triage rules for potentially reportable events
  • Named ownership of the 24-hour early warning
  • Engineering, security, legal and compliance handoff for the 72-hour notification
  • Availability of product, incident and mitigation evidence
  • Assigned Representative and Single Reporting Platform readiness
  • Tabletop escalation and deadline-failure paths

The output is a workflow score, missing-control map and prioritized reporting runbook. It is not legal advice, compliance certification, a security assessment, or an official regulatory submission.

Why this narrow test

Broad CRA readiness checklists already exist. This experiment tests a narrower operational question: if a potentially reportable security event became known today, could your organisation establish the clock, classify the event, assemble the evidence, coordinate ownership and reach the submission point before the 24-hour and 72-hour deadlines?

Security and privacy boundary

  • Do not submit vulnerability details
  • Do not submit exploit details
  • Do not submit credentials or production secrets
  • Do not submit private incident logs
  • Do not submit customer or personal data
  • Do not submit information whose disclosure could increase security risk
  • Use workflow, ownership and readiness information only

Early-stage research experiment. No payment is being collected and no compliance determination is being made.