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4CRA-ready device trust for connected products
Turn CRA compliance pressure into trusted device lifecycles
CRA turns connected-product security into a compliance and EU market-access issue. QuarkLink helps OEMs and their development partners turn that pressure into operational device-trust workflows: establish device identity, provision securely, issue certificates, authorize updates, maintain lifecycle state, revoke trust, and retain evidence for secure-by-design, updateable, supportable products.
Product proof: lifecycle state, certificate status, update activity, and evidence
See how QuarkLink brings provisioning, certificate, update, lifecycle state, and evidence signals into one operational view.
Certificates due soon
12Successful OTA jobs
98%| Device group | Platform | Status | Certs | Recent activity |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ESP32 evaluation kits | MCU / RTOS | warning | 0 / 5 | 3 renewals queued |
| Wurth Cordelia-I pilots | Module | passing | 0 / 0 | Provisioned 2h ago |
| Linux gateway fleet | Embedded Linux | failing | 5 / 6 | OTA retry in progress |
| Factory provisioning line | Mixed devices | failing | 1 / 3 | 2 devices quarantined |
Active lifecycle policies
Production OTA rollout policy
failingCertificate lifecycle baseline
warningRecent activity
View full activity log| 10m ago | Linux gateway OTA rollout paused after retry threshold |
| 32m ago | ESP32 evaluation kits queued for certificate renewal before expiry window |
| 1h ago | Factory provisioning line isolated 2 devices pending re-onboarding review |
Secure by design starts with device identity
Create hardware-rooted identities, per-device credentials, secure provisioning records, and certificates that make device trust part of the product architecture from the start.
Security updates need more than delivery
Support firmware signing, update authorization, verified rollout state, secure boot as an implementation control, and update evidence without reducing the problem to file distribution.
Compliance needs device-trust evidence
Keep lifecycle records for provisioning, certificates, updates, revocation, quarantine, decommissioning, and trust-state changes that support compliance and customer assurance.
How QuarkLink works
QuarkLink connects the Device SDK, QuarkLink Cloud, and CLI / API automation into one device-trust lifecycle platform.
- Define the trust policy for the product or device family.
- Embed the QuarkLink Device SDK into the target platform.
- Provision devices with unique identities, credentials, and certificates.
- Onboard devices to AWS, Azure, MQTT, private services, or customer infrastructure.
- Authorize signed firmware and security-update workflows.
- Maintain lifecycle state: active, revoked, quarantined, transferred, or decommissioned.
- Retain lifecycle records for compliance, customer assurance, and support-period evidence.
Proof that updates are authorized, signed, and recorded
This proof moment shows how QuarkLink turns security-update readiness into a controlled workflow: signed firmware, release authorization, rollout state, affected devices, and evidence records in one place.
Firmware 2.4.1 security update
Firmware artifact signed against production release policy.
Authorize eligible device groups before broad release.
Devices that fail verification can be paused or isolated.
Authorization, rollout, and device-state events are recorded.
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 identity, provisioning, credentials, certificates, firmware-integrity controls, update trust, and lifecycle evidence into the product architecture.
Secure by default
Ship devices with trusted initial state, per-device credentials, secure onboarding, and controlled trust policy.
Security updates / automatic-update readiness
Sign firmware, authorize updates, verify update eligibility, track rollout state, and retain update 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 the full delivery ecosystem
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.
Start free with Ignite
Evaluate QuarkLink hands-on with secure provisioning, onboarding, certificate workflows, and signed update paths on supported hardware.
Choose the right path
Start with Ignite, compare plans for production rollout, or contact us for enterprise, partner, on-prem, HSM, high-scale OTA, or complex deployment conversations.