The EU’s Cyber Resilience Act (CRA) establishes mandatory security standards for digital products. It imposes strict requirements on manufacturers, importers, and distributors, focusing on secure-by-design principles, supply-chain transparency, and proactive incident response. For organizations that build, buy, or operate software in the EU, this isn’t an abstract legal exercise: it changes expectations across engineering, procurement, and security teams. The good news is that CRA’s aims: better design, stronger evidence, and faster response, map directly to the capabilities IT and security teams already need. That’s where Druva’s Data Security Cloud can make compliance practical and meaningful for customers.

What CRA means in practice (briefly)

Although the CRA is primarily a product and vendor-facing law, its practical effects ripple across the enterprise:

• Software and connected devices must be developed with security in mind (secure-by-design) and maintained throughout their lifecycle.

• Producers must operate vulnerability-management and disclosure processes and cooperate with authorities.

• Products and services need demonstrable evidence of security controls, incident detection, and post-incident remediation plans.

• Supply-chain risk and third-party security become reporting and governance priorities.

In short, regulators will expect evidence that an organization can detect, investigate, contain, and recover from attacks, and that third-party products and services won’t break those capabilities.

Where Druva fits: data as the control point for CRA readiness

The CRA’s emphasis on secure development, transparency, and robust incident handling puts cyber resilience, not just perimeter controls, front and center. Druva helps organizations translate CRA requirements into operational controls in four practical ways.

1) Secure-by-design backups and separation of duties

Druva’s cloud-native architecture is built to preserve the integrity and availability of backup data: immutable, air-gapped copies, tenant-unique encryption keys, and a “data lock” model that balances defensible immutability with governance requirements. Because backups are physically and operationally separated from customer environments (no persistent OS or network path), malware cannot run inside Druva’s storage, a powerful technical guarantee when regulators ask for evidence of secure architecture and isolation.

2) Continuous observability and demonstrable detection

CRA expects producers and suppliers to have meaningful monitoring and detection capabilities. Druva Threat Insights transforms immutable backups into a proactive security layer. By integrating Threat Watch for continuous defense and Threat Hunting for rapid remediation, Druva provides a comprehensive view of your security posture. With the Security Command Center and its Cyber Resilience Scorecard, security teams gain the actionable data and dashboards necessary to demonstrate regulatory compliance across endpoints, cloud workloads, and SaaS environments.

3) Automated, defensible investigation and forensics

When an incident occurs, CRA’s focus on accountability and remediation means organizations must be able to show how they investigated and contained the breach. Druva supplies searchable forensic logs, threat hunting across extended backup timelines, IOC-based scanning, and sandboxed validations. Druva’s Managed Data Detection & Response (DDR) further provides 24/7 monitoring and expert analysis so customers can accelerate incident triage and produce the documentation that auditors and regulators expect.

4) Safe, fast, and auditable recovery workflows

Recovery is where many compliance stories break: how do you prove a restore is “clean” and won’t reinfect production? Druva’s integrated Cyber Recovery workflows, including recovery scans (AV + IOC), curated recovery (algorithmic selection of last-known-good file versions), and sandbox recovery, automate validation and quarantine steps so teams can recover quickly without sacrificing evidence trails. These workflows both reduce business impact and create a defensible paper trail for regulators checking remediation practices.

Helping customers meet related compliance regimes

The CRA sits alongside other regulatory frameworks, including GDPR, DORA, HIPAA, FedRAMP, SOC 2, and more, that ask for demonstrable technical and organizational measures. Druva’s platform is designed to support those overlapping requirements:

• Druva’s documentation and tooling support incident investigation and breach notification needs under privacy laws such as GDPR (for example, helping show scope, exposure, and remediation).

• For regulated industries, Druva aligns with frameworks required by financial organizations (DORA) and provides features (logs, recoverability, immutable backups, and posture reporting) that dovetail with regulator expectations.

• Druva holds attestations and controls that customers commonly need for public sector and regulated workloads, such as SOC 2 Type II, HIPAA support, FedRAMP-moderate GovCloud, and FIPS options, that help customers demonstrate third-party assurances.

Because CRA will increase scrutiny on vendors and their customers, those attestations and a managed, auditable service model reduce compliance friction for both vendors and buyers.

Turning obligation into opportunity

The CRA nudges the market toward higher-quality software and stronger supply-chain guarantees. For customers, that means choosing partners that don’t just promise security but can prove it operationally. Druva’s approach: air-gapped immutability, continuous backup telemetry, automated recovery workflows, and 24/7 managed detection, converts the CRA’s abstract obligations into concrete, testable controls that security, audit, and procurement teams can rely on.

If your organization is mapping CRA obligations to people, process, and tools, start with data: ensure your backup environment is isolated, observable, and recoverable. Druva’s Data Security Cloud is purpose-built to provide that foundation, and to produce the evidence you’ll need when regulators, auditors, or your own board ask, “How do we know we’ll recover?”

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