CRA Compliance with Memfault
The Cyber Resilience Act (CRA) is an EU regulation that will require manufacturers of products and services with a digital element to comply with its standards in order to be able to offer those products in EU member states. It will provide a framework for businesses to use to ensure their products are secure by design and remain secure throughout their lifecycle. In this guide, we will provide practical steps to leveraging Memfault to support your path to CRA compliance. For specific guidance on complete compliance with the regulations, we recommend you read the regulation in full.
Vulnerability Detection and Reporting
Collecting performance data in the field and correlating it with software component versions is an important aspect of detecting issues and vulnerabilities properly.
Software Bill of Materials (SBOM)
Memfault has support for storing SBOMs for each individual software version, allowing you to see the prevalence of each version and its components across your fleet. See SBOM (Software Bill of Materials) for details on generating and uploading an SBOM for your platform.
Issue Detection
Memfault provides coredump collection instrumentation to root-cause crashes that may degrade overall system reliability. See the following pages for collecting coredumps on your platform:
CVE Analysis
Coming soon!
Updates and Vulnerability Resolution
After you have detected an issue or vulnerability, it is important to be able to push a fix to fielded devices.
Over-the-Air Updates (OTA)
Memfault provides an OTA update management and distribution system to enable resolution of detected issues. This system can hook into your existing on-device update mechanism, or you can leverage some on-device image booting support we have available for common platforms. See the following pages for instructions on triggering OTA updates for your platform:
If you have additional questions about leveraging Memfault for CRA compliance,