Structure product risk assessments
Follow a consistent workflow for evaluating cybersecurity risks.
Manage Product Cybersecurity Risk & Protect EU Market Access with exSILentia® CRA
exSILentia® CRA streamlines product cybersecurity risk assessments with a structured, template-driven workflow—helping you document risks, apply appropriate mitigations, and prepare technical documentation to support CRA conformity.
Reduce manual effort, strengthen your compliance process, and keep product development moving.
The EU Cyber Resilience Act (CRA) brings new cybersecurity requirements for connected products. For manufacturers, evaluating every product, documenting product cyber risks, and demonstrating conformity can create significant engineering workloads, compliance risk, and potential barriers to market access.
exSILentia CRA combines structured workflows, a preloaded industry-standard risk matrix, and mitigations mapped from harmonized standards to streamline the Threat Analysis & Risk Assessment (TARA) process.
Core Features
Turn Complex Cybersecurity Analysis Into a Repeatable Engineering Workflow
You don't need to start from scratch with every product. You need a consistent process that helps your team assess risks, apply the right requirements, and document its decisions.
Built on exida's cybersecurity expertise and experience conducting assessments to ISA/IEC 62443 and ISASecure standards, exSILentia CRA helps product development teams navigate cybersecurity risk analysis without having to build their methodology and documentation from the ground up. Spend more time developing products and less time becoming a cybersecurity legal expert.
Use exSILentia CRA to:
Start with established resources
Use the preloaded risk matrix and mapped mitigations to reduce repetitive setup work.
Reuse analysis across product families
Avoid reconstructing similar threat analysis, requirements mappings, and documentation for every product variant.
Standardize engineering decisions
Apply repeatable methods and consistent risk ratings across product lines.
Generate technical documentation
Produce standardized documentation to support CRA conformity activities and review by Notified Bodies.
Preloaded, Industry-Standard Risk Matrix
Establish Defensible Cyber Risk Criteria from Day One
The EU Cyber Resilience Act requires manufacturers to evaluate products using customer-representative cyber risk criteria, not internal metrics. To ensure full compliance, exida recommends leveraging proven, globally recognized risk assessment methodologies such as IEC 62443-3-2.
To accelerate this process, exSILentia® CRA comes preloaded with an industry-typical risk matrix that provides a standardized baseline which is fully customizable to align with your organization’s specific product portfolio and risk tolerance.
exSILentia CRA risk matrix (typical) leveraging industry standards
Key Capabilities of the Preloaded Criteria
- Standard-Based Likelihood Reduction: Accurately measure and reduce the likelihood of a successful compromise by taking formal credit for embedded cybersecurity protections based on relevant harmonized standards (such as EN IEC 62443-4-2).
- Operational & Application Restrictions: Document necessary application restrictions within the tool so they can be included in user documentation.
- Conservative & Defensible Risk Scoring: Ensure risk rating and mitigation credit is conservative, objective, and fully defensible to support audit by an EU market surveillance authority.or a Notified Body.
Product Threat Analysis & Risk Assessment (TARA)
Risk Assessment Workflow (Typical)
Completed Threat Analysis & Risk Assessment (TARA) Worksheet - Typical
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Select Threat
Begin with the product or system threat model.
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Rate Consequence
Assess the worst-case Confidentiality (C), Integrity (I), Availability (A), and Safety (S) impacts.
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Select Mitigations
Map relevant harmonized standard requirements to the threat (EN IEC 62443 shown).
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Credit Mitigations
Confirm the controls and depth needed for mitigation.
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Evaluate Residual Risk
Reduce likelihood and compare result with acceptance criteria.
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Output Results for Conformity Assessment
Include report of product cyber risk assessment as input for audits and Annex VII technical files.
Reuse Results for Variants & Derivatives
Repeat Steps 1 - 6.
Instantly clone and adapt existing risk assessments for product derivatives and family variants—saving hundreds of engineering hours and enforcing consistency across your entire portfolio.
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Move From CRA Complexity to Compliance Confidence
The December 2027 CRA enforcement deadline makes a structured approach to product cybersecurity risk assessment increasingly important. Don't let repetitive analysis and documentation slow your product development efforts.
With exSILentia CRA, you can standardize your risk assessment workflow, reduce manual effort, and build clearer technical documentation to support your conformity process.
Start streamlining your CRA risk assessments with exida.