CRA-ready device trust for connected products

Ship CRA-ready connected products with trusted device lifecycles

QuarkLink helps connected-product OEMs and development partners build the device-trust foundation for CRA readiness, from secure provisioning and hardware-rooted identity to certificate lifecycle management, trusted update workflows, revocation, and audit evidence.

Provision devices Manage certificates Secure updates Revoke trust Retain evidence

Product-family trust record

See how QuarkLink gives teams one product-family view of device identity, certificate state, update progress, lifecycle exceptions, and retained evidence.

Device family trust record

Smart Controller Evaluation Fleet

Product-family trust view for CRA-exposed connected products during the support period.

evidence ready

Trust coverage

8,240 devices trusted and current

Support-period actions

37 devices need renewal or retry

Trust constrained

4 quarantined pending review
active updating renewal due
active updating renewal due quarantined decommissioned

Lifecycle distribution across the product family during the support period.

Priority action Complete the 2.4.1 security rollout and renew 37 device certificates before the support-period window closes.
support-period queue

Trust coverage

trusted
Platform profile
STM32H5 MCU
Identity model
Per-device credentials issued
Certificate
QuarkLink Device CA / active
Cloud target
AWS IoT Core

Update exposure

rollout active
Current firmware
2.3.8
Signed update
2.4.1 security release
Eligibility
8,203 devices approved
Fallback
pause / retry / quarantine policy set

Lifecycle and evidence

exportable
  • Active: identity and certificate current
  • Quarantined: excluded from update cohort
  • Decommissioned: certificate revoked and evidence retained
  • Evidence: provisioning, certificate, update, and revocation records retained

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Build secure-by-design products from device identity up

Create hardware-rooted identities, per-device credentials, secure provisioning records, and certificates that make device trust part of the product architecture from the start.

Prove security updates are authorized, eligible, and traceable

Support signed firmware security updates, including OTA update workflows where supported, by authorizing eligible devices, governing rollout state, and retaining evidence.

Give security and compliance teams evidence they can use

Keep lifecycle records for provisioning, certificates, updates, revocation, quarantine, decommissioning, and trust-state changes that support compliance and customer assurance.

QuarkLink is the device-trust lifecycle platform

CRA creates the urgency. QuarkLink gives OEMs and their development partners the operational layer for device identity, secure provisioning, certificates, trusted update workflows, lifecycle state, revocation, and evidence.

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Signed firmware update workflow

Track how a signed firmware release moves from signing and eligibility checks to controlled rollout, retry or rollback handling, device-state tracking, and evidence retention.

Security update workflow

Firmware 2.4.1 security release

Signed firmware workflow for eligible connected devices, with rollout control and retained evidence.

Platform cohort STM32H5 MCU
Signed artifact controller-fw-2.4.1-security.bin
Eligible cohort 8,203 devices
Eligibility gate Passed after identity, certificate, firmware, and lifecycle checks
Rollout policy staged release
Fallback pause / quarantine
Evidence audit record retained

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From CRA asks to device-trust workflows

CRA creates the urgency. QuarkLink gives OEMs the device-trust controls and evidence layer behind secure-by-design, updateable, supportable connected products.

Secure by design

Build device identity, provisioning, certificates, firmware integrity, secure updates, and evidence into the architecture.

Secure by default

Ship devices with trusted initial state, per-device credentials, secure onboarding, and controlled trust policy.

Secure firmware update workflows

Sign firmware, check device eligibility, govern rollout rules, track update state, and retain evidence.

Protection from unauthorised access

Use genuine device identity, certificates, mutual authentication, and trust policy to control access.

Data integrity

Protect firmware, commands, configuration, and device communications from unauthorised modification.

Vulnerability handling

Identify affected devices, update them, revoke trust, quarantine risky devices, or decommission them.

Support period

Maintain trust over time through renewal, update support, revocation, lifecycle state, and decommissioning.

Technical documentation / evidence

Keep records for provisioning, certificates, updates, revocation, quarantine, decommissioning, and lifecycle state.

QuarkLink owns the device-trust layer behind CRA readiness. It gives teams controls and evidence for identity, provisioning, certificates, updates, revocation, and lifecycle state while integrating with the broader compliance programme around risk assessment, SBOM, vulnerability disclosure, incident reporting, technical documentation, and conformity assessment.

Built for OEM accountability and partner-led delivery

The OEM owns the compliance accountability, but implementation often spans product leadership, compliance and product-security teams, embedded engineering, ODMs, design houses, contract manufacturers, module vendors, and cloud integrators.

QuarkLink gives that ecosystem a defined device-trust platform rather than a bespoke security stack, so each team can work from the same identity, certificate, update, lifecycle, and evidence model.

For OEMs facing CRA deadlines

Own the device-trust controls and evidence needed to build secure-by-design, updateable, supportable connected products for CRA readiness.

For their development partners

Implement provisioning, certificates, trusted update workflows, lifecycle state, and evidence using a defined platform instead of bespoke security glue.

Start with Ignite, then move toward production

Use Ignite to evaluate QuarkLink workflows hands-on: provisioning, onboarding, certificate lifecycle, trusted update workflows, lifecycle state, and evidence. When you are ready to scale, compare production plans or contact us for enterprise deployment, HSM, customer PKI, customer-hosted, partner, or complex rollout requirements.