24 Hours to Report, Zero Room for Error: The EU Cyber Resilience Act Makes Security Champions Must-Have Role

Practical DevSecOps’ Certified Security Champion (CSC) certification puts CRA-ready security skills inside every development team.

SAN FRANCISCO, CA, UNITED STATES, October 6, 2026 /EINPresswire.com/ -- Vulnerability reporting obligations under the EU Cyber Resilience Act (CRA) have applied since September 11, 2026, requiring manufacturers of software and connected products sold in the European Union to submit an early warning within 24 hours of becoming aware of an actively exploited vulnerability. The regulation's remaining obligations take effect on December 11, 2027.

Practical DevSecOps, a provider of hands-on security certifications, has highlighted its Certified Security Champion (CSC) program as one way for organizations to build secure development skills within their engineering teams ahead of the 2027 deadline.

CRA requirements

The CRA, Regulation (EU) 2024/2847, requires products with digital elements to be designed and delivered with appropriate security, to be placed on the market without known exploitable vulnerabilities, to be documented with a software bill of materials (SBOM), and to receive security updates throughout their support period. Non-compliance with essential requirements can result in fines of up to €15 million or 2.5% of global annual turnover, whichever is higher.

The Security Champion model

In many organizations, a small central security team supports a large number of developers. The Security Champion model places trained developers within individual product teams, where they participate in code review, threat modeling and the escalation of security issues. Practical DevSecOps states that this approach helps organizations embed secure development practices at the point where code is written.

About the CSC certification

According to the company, approximately 70% of CSC training is hands-on, delivered through more than 40 browser-based guided labs. Participants work through each of the OWASP Top 10 risks, first exploiting and then remediating them in code. The certification concludes with a six-hour practical exam, and learners have access to expert support throughout the course.

The curriculum covers skills that correspond to several CRA requirements: threat modeling using the STRIDE methodology, secure code review against the OWASP Top 10 and CWE Top 25, integration of SAST, SCA and secrets scanning into CI/CD pipelines, secure Infrastructure as Code configuration, and communication practices for security escalation. The curriculum is aligned with NIST SSDF, OWASP SAMM and ISO/IEC 27001:2022. The CSC certification does not in itself certify an organization's compliance with the CRA.

"The CRA makes deferred security fixes a compliance risk," said Mohammed A. Imran, CEO at Practical DevSecOps. "Training the developers who already write the code is one practical way for organizations to meet tight reporting timelines."

Availability

Enrollment in the CSC program is open to individuals and teams.

About Practical DevSecOps

Practical DevSecOps, a Hysn Technologies Inc. company, offers vendor-neutral, practical, and hands-on training and certification programs for IT and security professionals. The company’s curriculum focuses on modern areas of information security, including DevOps Security, AI Security, Cloud-Native Security, API Security, Container Security, Threat Modeling, and Software Supply Chain Security. Certifications from Practical DevSecOps are achieved after rigorous, skill-based exams ranging from 06 to 24 hours and are considered among the most valuable in the information security field.

Sneha Mukherjee
Practical DevSecOps
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