5 Ways BackBox Helps Organizations with the EU Cyber Resilience Act

The EU Cyber Resilience Act (CRA) establishes requirements for digital product cybersecurity across the European Union. BackBox, using its ML-powered network vulnerability intelligence platform, can help meet these requirements using our ML-powered network vulnerability platform, and offers valuable tools to help meet the CRA’s standards and keep the network safe.

BackBox helps with cyber resilience by providing vulnerability intelligence, including contextual CVE severity information from CIS, NVD, NIST, and vendor sites. It also automates the remediation of network device vulnerabilities and enables network administrators to manage the full -lifecycle of device vulnerabilities.

There are five key requirements the BackBox Network Cyber Resilience solution can help address:

1. Comprehensive Vulnerability Intelligence
   CRA Article 5, Section 1: Products must be secure by design and maintained throughout their lifecycle with regular updates.
   
   • Ongoing Vulnerability Tracking. BackBox continuously monitors for new vulnerabilities across over 180 vendors and thousands of software versions. BackBox ensures that organizations are aware of any CVEs relevant to their specific inventory of devices.
   • Lifecycle Management. BackBox uses vendor end-of-life information to highlight out-of-service devices and warn organizations of impending out-of-compliance devices. Understanding end-of-life status is critical to knowing when devices will no longer receive important security updates.
   • Proactive Detection. BackBox identifies known vulnerabilities against specific device inventory, to help administrators prevent attackers from compromising their networks. 

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2. Risk Assessment and Mitigation
   CRA Article 6, Section 1: Companies must conduct risk assessments and implement measures to mitigate identified risks.
   
   • Automated Risk Assessments: BackBox provides automated continuous risk assessments that analyze the security posture of all connected networks and security devices. These assessments help organizations identify threats and prioritize remediation activity.
   • Automated Remediation. BackBox helps organizations automate the mitigation and remediation of known vulnerabilities, simplifying software updates at scale while eliminating errors due to manual configuration work.
3. Compliance Monitoring and Reporting
   CRA Article 7, Section 1: Organizations must demonstrate compliance with cybersecurity standards and report significant security incidents.
   

   • Comprehensive Compliance Reports: BackBox offers detailed, automated compliance reports to demonstrate compliance with standards. These reports can be run continuously (often daily) so that compliance shifts from periodic to “continuous compliance.”. BackBox can also automate compliance remediation, so that as configurations drift from their desired state, it can automatically return them to a known and trusted state.

4. Centralized Security Management
   CRA Article 5, Section 4: Organizations need a unified approach to managing security across all digital products.
   
   • Unified Dashboard. BackBox provides a single dashboard consolidating the view across the state of all CVEs on all network and security devices.

   • Integrated API. BackBox integrates seamlessly with existing IT and security infrastructures through an open, well- documented API.

5. Advanced Features for Enhanced Security
   CRA Article 9, Section 1: Organizations must adopt advanced security measures to protect against sophisticated threats.
   • End-of-Life Tracking. BackBox tracks device end-of-life information, alerting organizations to devices that no longer receive security updates.
   • ”In the Wild” Alerts (CISA Known Exploited Vulnerability): The platform considers vulnerabilities actively exploited in the wild in the risk assessment, helping organizations prioritize urgent remediation efforts.
   • BackBox Automation-Creation Support. BackBox support is available globally to assist in creating mitigation or remediation automations that help customers respond quickly to known threats.
   • Holistic Visibility. BackBox ensures complete visibility into the CVE status of all devices regardless of vendor, product, or software version.

Want to learn more about BackBox and cyber resilience? Check out a recent Gartner Voice of the Customer report, in which BackBox is the only vendor ranked as a strong performer.