Luca BertonIf you have 10 digital products, building CRA compliance separately for each is 10x the effort, 10x the cost, and 10x the risk of inconsistency. A shared CRA compliance platform reduces this to near-linear scaling.
Shared Platform Components
Product Registry
Central inventory of all products with digital elements: product name, version, CRA classification (Default/Important/Critical), applicable ETSI standards, conformity assessment status, support period end date, assigned product security team.
Vulnerability Management Hub
Centralized vulnerability management across all products: shared SBOM database with cross-product correlation, unified CVE tracking with per-product impact assessment, coordinated disclosure policy shared across products, single reporting pipeline to ENISA.
Compliance Documentation Engine
Shared templates and automation for technical files: organization-wide vulnerability handling policy, shared risk assessment methodology, automated SBOM and test result collection from all CI/CD pipelines, declaration of conformity generator.
Update Infrastructure
Shared secure update delivery: signing key management, CDN infrastructure, rollout orchestration, health monitoring. Each product uses the shared infrastructure instead of building its own.
Cost Analysis
| Per-Product | Shared Platform | |
| Setup (10 products) | €2M | €400K |
| Annual maintenance | €1M | €200K |
| Time to compliance (new product) | 6 months | 2-4 weeks |
| Consistency risk | High | Low |
Kubernetes Recipes
Practical guide for container orchestration and deployment — hands-on patterns you can use today.
View on Amazon →The Platform Team Model
A small CRA platform team (3-5 engineers) builds and maintains the shared infrastructure. Product teams consume it through golden paths. The platform team is where an infrastructure partner provides the most leverage — building capability that serves the entire organization.