What’s in the SOSS? Podcast #71 – S3E23 Navigating the New Era: The EU Cyber Resilience Act Explained with Madalin Neag
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Summary
In this episode of What’s in the SOSS, host Sally Cooper is joined by Madalin Neag, EU Policy Advisor at the OpenSSF, to demystify the European Union’s Cyber Resilience Act (CRA). As the tech industry shifts from treating open source as a free buffet to navigating a new era of regulatory liability, Madalin explains how the CRA establishes a horizontal cybersecurity baseline for digital products.
The conversation explores the innovative concept of “open source software stewards,” the importance of moving beyond passive consumption to active upstream contribution, and why compliance should be viewed as an outcome of good engineering rather than a separate checkbox exercise.