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EU cyber laws, in plain English.

Free guides and tools for the Cyber Resilience Act, NIS2, the GDPR, the Machinery Regulation and the AI Act: who they apply to, what they ask and by when. When the work starts: Crosswalk for your compliance file, and advice from Depre.nl.

No account needed · Law texts from EUR-Lex

What you find here

From reading the law to doing the work

Start free with the guides and the tools. When the work begins, keep your compliance file in Crosswalk, or ask us to help.

  • Guides per law

    In plain English: who each law applies to, what it asks, the deadlines and the penalties. For the CRA, NIS2, the GDPR and the Machinery Regulation also the law text, article by article.

  • Free tools

    The 2-minute scan of which laws apply, the CRA product checker, risk classifier and gap analysis, the NIS2 sector checker, and a printable CRA checklist and RACI. In your browser, no account.

  • Crosswalk

    A workspace for your compliance file under the CRA, NIS2, the GDPR, the Machinery Regulation and RED: gaps, evidence, actions and the documents your auditor asks for. It runs in your browser; the Lite licence is free.

  • Consultancy

    Assessments, support while you implement, and ongoing compliance support, from Depre.nl, the company behind this site.

The clock is running

What applies when

Five laws, one calendar. Some dates have passed; the rest are close enough to plan for now.

  1. Cybersecurity requirements for radio equipment apply

    RED
  2. Rules for notified bodies apply

    CRA
  3. Reporting of actively exploited vulnerabilities and severe incidents

    CRA
  4. Today
  5. Machinery Regulation applies

    MR
  6. All CRA obligations apply

    CRA

Free tools

Start with the scan, then the hub for your law

Everything here is free and runs in your browser. The scan tells you which laws apply; the hubs and tools take you from there.

Compliance scan · 2 minutes

Which EU cyber laws apply to you?

A few questions about where you operate, what you make and whom you serve. You get a yes or no per law, the reasoning, and the tools that fit.

  1. 01Where does your organization operate?
  2. 02What type of organization are you?
  3. 03How large is your organization?
  4. and up to ten more, depending on your answers
CRA applies from 11 Dec 2027

CRA Compliance Hub

For anyone placing products with digital elements on the EU market: obligations, requirements, the timeline, penalties and the free CRA tools.

  • Gap analysis
  • Product checker
  • Risk classifier
  • Checklist
  • RACI
NIS2 measures apply since 18 Oct 2024

NIS2 Compliance Hub

For essential and important entities: risk-management measures, incident reporting, governance, and whether your sector is in scope.

  • Sector checker
  • Compliance steps
  • Incident reporting
CRA

CRA Gap Analysis

Where you stand against the essential requirements.

CRA

CRA Product Checker

Is your product in scope, and in which class?

CRA

CRA Risk Classifier

Default, important or critical.

CRA

CRA Checklist

The obligations as a printable list.

NIS2

NIS2 Sector Checker

Essential, important, or out of scope.

GDPR

GDPR Compliance Hub

Lawful processing, security of processing, breach notification.

MR

Machinery Regulation Hub

Regulation (EU) 2023/1230, applies from 20 January 2027: overview, articles, obligations, six steps to conformity, timeline.

CRA

CRA RACI

Who does what, as a printable matrix.

Crosswalk · one assessment, five laws

Answer a requirement once. See where else it counts.

Overlapping obligations are mapped to each other, and the standards you already use to every law they serve, so a requirement you answer under the CRA also counts under NIS2 and the GDPR where they overlap, and a standard assessed once counts for every law it supports.

How Crosswalk maps five EU cyber laws to the standards you assess againstCRANIS2GDPRMRREDCrosswalkone assessmentIEC 62443ISO/IEC 2700122301ETSI EN 303 645EN 18031ISO/IEC 2914730111ISO/TR 22100-4IEC TS 63074
  • CRA, Cyber Resilience Act: assessed against IEC 62443, ISO/IEC 27001 and ISO 22301, ETSI EN 303 645, EN 18031, ISO/IEC 29147 and 30111.
  • NIS2, NIS2 Directive: assessed against ISO/IEC 27001 and ISO 22301, IEC 62443, ISO/IEC 29147 and 30111.
  • GDPR, General Data Protection Regulation: assessed against ISO/IEC 27001 and ISO 22301, ISO/IEC 29147 and 30111.
  • MR, Machinery Regulation: assessed against ISO/TR 22100-4 and IEC TS 63074, IEC 62443, ISO/IEC 27001 and ISO 22301.
  • RED, Radio Equipment Directive: assessed against EN 18031, ETSI EN 303 645.

Hover or focus a law to see which standards Crosswalk assesses it against. Standards stay voluntary; the law is the binder.

  • See where you stand

    Home shows the four stages in the order you work in, each with its state, and the one next step. Figures has the numbers behind it.

  • Close the gaps with evidence

    A requirement counts as in place once its evidence is recorded; what is missing becomes an action with an owner and a date.

  • Hand your auditor the file

    The audit report set: a management review, one document per law and the technical documentation in the order Annex VII prescribes, as Markdown or PDF.

Crosswalk is itself a product with digital elements, and we keep its compliance file in Crosswalk.

Built on proven standards

The frameworks behind the laws

Each law has its frameworks: ENISA guidance and IEC 62443 for the CRA, ISO 27001 for NIS2, ISO 27701 for the GDPR, ISO/TR 22100-4 and IEC TS 63074 for the Machinery Regulation. The site shows where they overlap, so one investment serves several laws.

  • ENISA ENISA Guidelines EU Cybersecurity Agency
  • ISO ISO 27001 Information Security Management
  • ISO ISO 27701 Privacy Management (PIMS)
  • IEC IEC 62443 Industrial Cybersecurity
  • ISO ISO 31000 Risk Management
  • NIST NIST CSF 2.0 Cybersecurity Framework
  • ISO ISO 27002 Security Controls
  • ISO ISO 29134 Privacy Impact Assessment
  • ISAE ISAE 3000 Assurance Engagements
  • CIS CIS Controls v8 Center for Internet Security
  • SOC SOC 2 Trust Services Criteria
  • ISO ISO 27035 Incident Management
Portrait of Marcel Depré

Who builds this

Marcel Depré

Software security and compliance specialist with more than thirty years in OT software development: factory automation, control algorithms, test frameworks and automated generation of compliance evidence, with secure product development under IEC 62443-4-1 and 4-2 in industrial control. He developed and teaches the four-day Cyber Resilience Act course at Mikrocentrum and speaks on security in OT. Before that: thirteen years of OPC and RFID courses for Mikrocentrum.

  • 30+ years in OT software
  • Automated compliance evidence
  • IEC 62443-4-1 / 4-2
  • CRA course, Mikrocentrum (4 days)
  • Speaker on security in OT

Not sure where to start?

The scan tells you in two minutes which EU cyber laws apply to you and which tools fit. For what a scan cannot answer, talk to us.