Tools, Checklists and Templates for EU Product-Security Work
An assessment, a dated regulatory timeline and a partner scorecard to use with your team, each with its method or sources on the page.
These tools turn the guides on this site into something you can use with your team: an assessment you can run in a meeting, a timeline you can check before a planning cycle, and a template for comparing engineering partners. The assessment and the scorecard don’t ask for your email address.
How the tools are built (method note)
- Dates come with their sources. The timeline links every date to the legal text behind it and shows when we last checked it against its primary source, such as EUR-Lex, the European Commission or ENISA. A change log shows what moved and when.
- Scoring is explained. Each answer in the assessment maps to common secure-update practices covered in our secure firmware update architecture guide. Its method note lists what each question checks, which sources the scoring draws on, and the version and last-updated date of the assessment.
- You do the judging. In the scorecard, you set the weights and score each firm yourself. We don’t fill in scores, rank firms or list companies.
- Limits are stated. The assessment sees only your answers. It can’t inspect your devices or your code, so treat its output as a starting list for your engineers, not a final verdict.
The tools
Secure Update Readiness Assessment About a dozen multiple-choice questions on your product, how updates reach it, signing and signature checks, recovery from a failed update, fleet size and support horizon, and how you handle vulnerabilities and keep an SBOM for each release. Ranges are fine; you don’t need exact numbers. You get a prioritized gap worksheet, with the items that block everything else at the top, and you can download it as an action plan in PDF or CSV.
EU Technology Regulation Timeline & Tracker The EU rules that shape how connected products are built and sold, in one place: the Cyber Resilience Act, the EU Data Act, the Machinery Regulation, the radio equipment rules on cybersecurity, and the harmonised standards that support them. Each entry shows the date, its legal basis, its status (in force, applies, or proposal), a primary-source link, when we last checked it, and a change log. You can filter by rule or by product type. Proposals such as the Digital Omnibus are always marked "proposal".
Firmware & Embedded Partner RFP Template and Scorecard Two parts that work together: an RFP template you send to every firm, and a weighted scorecard that adds up your scores. It covers security capability, chip and OS experience, process, IP terms, the references you call yourself, and communication and time zones. Use the web version or download the spreadsheet (XLSX). Read it with our guide to evaluating firmware development companies.
Also useful: the glossary, with plain definitions of the terms used across these tools and guides.
Using the tools with your team
- Answer the assessment with the people who know how updates actually reach your devices. If no one person knows, bring the right two or three people together.
- Agree on scorecard weights before you see any proposals, so no one tunes the scale to a favorite.
Start here
- If you ship firmware updates (or should), run the Secure Update Readiness Assessment.
- Bookmark the EU regulatory timeline for planning.
- Read the guide behind each result: start from the EU requirements hub or the embedded and firmware security hub.
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