Beginning September 11, 2026, any company placing a product with digital elements on the EU market must file an early warning to ENISA within 24 hours of learning that a vulnerability in that product is being actively exploited. The stakes are concrete: penalties reach up to €15 million or 2.5% of global annual turnover, and unlike conformity gaps caught in scheduled audits, a missed notification is visible to regulators in real time. That is why EU CRA vulnerability reporting has shifted from a 2027 planning item to an operational readiness problem today. The hard part is rarely documentation. It is standing up a detection-to-disclosure workflow that can hold to a 24-hour clock across every product line and supplier. Continuous audit readiness, a centralized compliance data backbone, and CORA-driven compliance intelligence turn that scramble into a repeatable process. Certivo, an AI-native compliance platform and system of record, helps teams tie CRA obligations to products and keep
