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CRA Secure Pipeline Audit-Ready DevSecOps in 6 Weeks

 Your entire CRA-compliant development environment — integrated, pre-configured, and producing audit evidence from day one.
Stop scrambling for compliance artifacts. Start shipping compliant products in weeks. 

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Trusted by Automotive OEMs, Tier-1 Suppliers & Industrial Manufacturers Across the EU

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Stay Ahead of CRA Vulnerability Reporting

Deadline for: 24h early warning | 72h full notification | ENISA reporting

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The EU Cyber Resilience Act Is Here. Are Your Pipelines Ready?

The EU Cyber Resilience Act (CRA) entered into force on December 10, 2024, and its clock is ticking. By September 2026, every manufacturer of products with digital elements must report actively exploited vulnerabilities within 24 hours. By December 2027, full compliance - including security-by-design, SBOM generation, vulnerability management, and CE marking - becomes mandatory for any new product on the EU market.

Non-compliance means fines up to €15 million or 2.5% of global turnover, and potential product withdrawal. The good news: with the right development infrastructure in place, CRA compliance becomes a natural byproduct of your daily workflow — not a separate, painful project. That’s exactly what CRA Secure Pipeline delivers . 

Cybersecurity leaders are navigating uncharted territory as forces converge, testing the limits of their teams in an environment defined by constant change. This demands new approaches to cyber risk management, resilience and resource allocation.

Alex Michaels Director Analyst Gartner Top Cybersecurity Trends 2026

CRA Is Not Just About Security Testing. It’s About Proving It.

Your embedded devices are increasingly distributed, connected and exposed to growing regulatory pressure, including the Cyber Resilience Act.  
Every firmware update is no longer just about functionality – it is about security, remote rollout capability and a repeatable, auditable process.  
Codelab’s Secure Bootloader gives you a proven, flexible foundation so you can focus on developing your product instead of reinventing the update mechanism.  

The Challenge: Tools Exist, but Compliance-Ready Workflows Don't

Most engineering teams already use Git, CI pipelines, and some form of security scanning. But CRA demands more than tools — it demands an integrated, auditable workflow that consistently produces verifiable evidence. Here’s where most organizations fall short:

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Evidence Gap

You run scans, but can’t produce structured audit trails. Approvals, scan results, and SBOM data live in separate silos — if they exist at all.

Workflow Fragmentation

Every team, every repo, every project follows its own rules. No enforced quality gates, no mandatory reviews, no consistent traceability.

Time-to-Compliance Pressure

CRA deadlines are fixed. Building a compliant toolchain from scratch takes months of integration work — months you may not have.

On-Prem Constraints

IP sensitivity, regulated industries, and air-gapped networks make ‘just use SaaS’ a non-starter for a significant segment of manufacturers.

Limited AppSec Capacity

SMEs and mid-market manufacturers rarely have a dedicated DevSecOps team. They need solutions that work out-of-the-box.

Regulatory Complexity

CRA requirements span secure design, vulnerability handling, SBOM, incident reporting, and CE conformity — a lot to operationalize without a framework.

Having security tools is not the same as having a CRA-compliant development process. The gap between ‘we do security’ and ‘we can prove it’ is where risk — and regulatory exposure — lives. 

The real risk: CRA non-compliance doesn’t just mean fines

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It means your product cannot legally be placed on the EU market. For suppliers, it means failing your customer’s compliance review — and losing the relationship.

CRA Secure Pipeline: How We Solve It

CRA Secure Pipeline is a Docker-based, pre-integrated development environment that bundles source control, CI/CD, code quality analysis, and open-source component discovery into a single, audit-ready stack — designed specifically to help you meet CRA requirements from day one.

What’s Inside the Box

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Source control, CI/CD orchestration, issue tracking, merge request approvals, and audit logging — all in one platform. 

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 Automated code quality and security analysis with configurable quality gates that block non-compliant code from advancing. 

ScanOSS

 Open-source and third-party component discovery for SBOM generation, license compliance insights, and supply chain visibility. 

What Makes It CRA-Ready

Secure Branching & Merge Policies

Protected branches, mandatory code reviews, and approval workflows enforced at the platform level - not by convention.

CI Templates with Quality Gates

Pre-built pipeline templates for C/C++, embedded Linux, and web projects that enforce scanning, testing, and gating before any merge.

Automated Evidence Generation

Every scan result, every approval, every quality gate decision is logged and exportable as audit-ready reports (PDF/CSV).

SBOM & License Traceability

Component discovery integrated into your CI pipeline, generating machine-readable SBOMs aligned with CRA Annex I requirements.

Immutable Audit Logs

Tamper-proof records of all development activities - who changed what, when, and why - ready for any compliance review.

On-Prem & Customer-Controlled

Deploy in your own environment - Docker, VM, or Kubernetes. Your IP stays within your perimeter. No data leaves your network.

What You Get: Packages & Services

CRA Secure Pipeline is more than software - it’s a complete enablement program designed to get you from zero to CRA-ready in 4 to 6 weeks, not months.

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Core Stack Deployment

Reference architecture (single-node + scalable variant), Docker-based stack installation, basic configuration, network integration. 

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Onboarding & Adoption Sprint

 Process alignment workshops, CI/CD pipeline template customization, team training, first projects onboarded (2–4 week sprint). 

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Hardening & Integration

Access control model, SSO/LDAP integration, secret management (Vault), Security Information and Event Management (SIEM), artifact repository setup, backup strategy.
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Managed & Co-Managed Support

 Ongoing maintenance, security patching, performance tuning, update cadence management. Choose ‘Managed by Customer’ or ‘Co-Managed’ tiers. 

We’ve spent years building secure, auditable development environments for automotive Tier-1s and industrial manufacturers — projects where a single missed requirement can halt a product launch. Secure Pipeline is the distillation of that experience. Secure Pipeline became a backbone framework for each organization which like to be CRA compliant.

Sławomir Kukurenda CRA Solution Owner & Lead Project Manager Codelab
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From Discovery to Audit-Ready in 6 Weeks

Our implementation follows a proven, time-boxed approach designed for speed and minimal disruption. Most teams are fully operational within 4 to 6 weeks.

 

Discovery & Readiness Assessment (Day 1)

A focused session to map your current toolchain, networking setup, identity provider, repositories, and build runners. We identify gaps and confirm the deployment path.

Installation & Configuration Sprint (Days 2–3)

In 1–2 days, we deploy the full stack in your environment: GitLab, SonarQube, ScanOSS — connected, configured, and smoke-tested. Your team gets immediate access. 

Adoption Sprint (Weeks 1–4)

 We work side-by-side with your teams to migrate projects, customize CI templates, configure quality gates, and run the first compliant pipelines. Knowledge transfer is built in.

Hardening & Compliance Tuning (Weeks 4–5)

We implement the security baseline: least-privilege access, protected branches, immutable logs, secret management, and automated evidence exports tailored to your requirements.

Operational Handover & Ongoing Support (Week 6)

Full documentation, runbooks, and optional co-managed support. We stay available for updates, scaling, and compliance evolution as CRA standards mature.

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Compliance with new EU directives such as NIS 2 is expected to increase cyber budgets by up to 22% in the first years following implementation. Cyber regulatory risk remediation already constitutes more than 10% of cyber budgets.

McKinsey & Company The Cybersecurity Provider’s Next Opportunity 2024

Why Codelab? What Sets Us Apart

CRA compliance services are emerging fast. But most come from either pure consulting firms or pure tool vendors — rarely both. What sets us apart is this:

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We know, we care, we do.

We take ownership of the entire development lifecycle — from concept and architecture to CRA-compliant validation and full system integration. With 220+ engineers in Poland, we support global Tier-1 automotive, industrial, and telecom leaders in building secure, scalable, and regulation-ready systems. . ISO 27001 certified. TISAX assessment approved. We don’t just assess — we understand how compliant engineering organizations actually work

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Executive Summary

High-level overview of findings and business implications.

Deep Technical Report

Clear, actionable report highlighting key issues, inefficiencies, and risks.

Improvement Plan

Prioritized recommendations and a structured improvement roadmap, combining quick wins with long-term strategies. All delivered within business days from project start.

The CRA clock is ticking? Are you ready?

September 2026 is less than 6 months away. Don’t let CRA compliance become a last-minute scramble that drains your engineering bandwidth. Let’s map your current state, identify gaps, and together build a clear path to an audit-ready, efficient development pipeline.

In a 30-minute consultation, you’ll get:

  • A quick assessment of your current DevSecOps maturity vs. CRA requirements
  • Clarity on which CRA obligations apply to your specific products and timelines
  • A concrete outline of what your audit-ready pipeline would look like — and how fast you can get there
  • Honest guidance — no sales pressure, no obligation 
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Frequently asked questions

Does the CRA apply to my company?

If you manufacture, import, or distribute products with digital elements on the EU market — including software, firmware, IoT devices, embedded controllers, or connected hardware — CRA almost certainly applies. This includes components supplied to other manufacturers. Custom software built exclusively for internal use by a single client is generally excluded.

What are the key CRA deadlines?

September 11, 2026 — mandatory vulnerability reporting (24h early warning to ENISA). December 11, 2027 — full compliance required (security-by-design, SBOM, CE marking, lifecycle documentation). Products not meeting these deadlines cannot legally be placed on the EU market.

What happens if we’re not compliant?

Non-compliance can result in fines up to €15 million or 2.5% of global annual turnover, product withdrawal from the EU market, and significant reputational damage. Your customers may also drop non-compliant suppliers from their supply chains well before the regulatory deadline.

We already have CI/CD and scanning tools. Why do we need CRA Secure Pipeline?

Having tools is not the same as having a CRA-compliant workflow. CRA requires integrated, auditable evidence: traceable approvals, enforced quality gates, SBOM generation linked to CI, and structured reporting. CRA Secure Pipeline pre-integrates these into a single stack that produces this evidence automatically.

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Can it run on-premises or in air-gapped environments?

Yes. The entire stack is Docker-based and designed for on-prem, customer-controlled, or air-gapped deployment. No data leaves your network

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How long does it take to get audit-ready?

Typically 4 to 6 weeks. Stack deployment takes 1–2 days. Team onboarding runs 2–4 weeks. Hardening adds 1–2 weeks. Most organizations produce compliant evidence within the first sprint.

What if we already have ISO 27001?

ISO 27001 is a strong foundation, but CRA has specific, product-focused requirements it doesn’t fully cover — particularly SBOM, vulnerability reporting timelines (24h/72h), product lifecycle documentation, and CE conformity declarations. CRA Secure Pipeline fills these gaps.

What does it cost?

Pricing depends on environment complexity and team size. We offer transparent pricing with a core stack deployment, optional onboarding sprints, and flexible managed support tiers. The initial CRA readiness consultation is free.

Do you support languages beyond C/C++?

Yes. While our CI templates are optimized for embedded/industrial contexts (C/C++, embedded Linux), the stack supports any language covered by GitLab CI, SonarQube, and ScanOSS — including Java, Python, JavaScript, Go, .NET, and more.

What’s the difference between CRA Secure Pipeline and CRA Compliance Check?

CRA Secure Pipeline gives you the development infrastructure to produce compliant code and evidence on an ongoing basis. CRA Compliance Check is a point-in-time assessment that evaluates your current processes and delivers a remediation roadmap. Many clients start with the Check, then implement the Pipeline.