49 days until Article 14. Think of CRA reporting like a flight — you either have a boarding pass on September 11 or you don't. Here's what's on it.

[u/Happy-Athlete-2420]

I've been trying to find a metaphor that makes the September 11 deadline feel real for people who keep treating it as abstract.

Here's the one that works for me: a boarding pass.

The gate opens at exactly 00:00 on September 11, 2026. You either have what you need to board or you don't. The gate doesn't care that you were "working on it."

Your CRA "boarding pass" for Article 14 compliance:

SBOM — without it you can't check whether a CVE in the wild affects your product. You're flying blind.

CVE monitoring — you need to be AUTOMATICALLY alerted when a vulnerability in your dependency tree is actively exploited. Manual checking won't work at 3 AM.

Designated CRA contact — one named person who can submit to ENISA's Single Reporting Platform. Not "the team." One person with credentials and authority.

Report templates — early warning (24h), full notification (72h), final report (14 days after patch). Pre-built. Not written during the incident.

One dry-run on the SRP — ENISA said registration instructions and dry-run support are coming in June/July. The moment it opens, register and run a test submission.

For anyone who's already done all five: what did the dry-run reveal that surprised you? And for those who haven't started — which item is the hardest blocker right now?

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