Solo Software Vendors Struggle to Navigate EU Cyber Resilience Act Compliance
A one-person software company discovered that the EU Cyber Resilience Act treats commercial software the same as hardware products, requiring a technical file, declaration of conformity, and CE marking, with no exemption for small businesses and no size threshold. Reporting obligations begin imminently, leaving individual developers and microenterprises to interpret dense regulatory guidance largely on their own.
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