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EXECUTIVE BRIEF. This article discusses the impact when manufacturers of CRA impacted products transition. The EU Cyber Resilience Act hangs every obligation on a single role, the manufacturer, and says almost nothing about what happens when the company holding that role is sold, split, rebranded or wound up. In operational technology, where assets outlive the companies that made them, that silence is a liability someone is already carrying. Usually it is the buyer, and usua

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SECURITY BRIEF: CRA secure-by-default essential requirement through the lens of protocols that the device supports. Protocol security does not behave like a product property. Every industrial protocol that has added cryptographic protection — PROFINET Security Classes 2 and 3, CIP Security on EtherNet/IP, the OPC UA secure channel — protects a session, and a session needs two capable endpoints. The security a plant actually achieves is set by the least-capable peer in each re