The ENISA reporting workflow is the EU notification path used for Cyber Resilience Act (CRA) vulnerability and incident reporting. ENISA, together with the relevant EU and national channels, provides the structured process that obligated organizations use to submit security reports once the operational reporting obligations apply.
This matters because cyber incidents are only useful to defenders if they are reported quickly, consistently, and with enough detail to act on. A defined workflow helps teams decide what to report, collect evidence, assign ownership, and meet legal deadlines. In practice, it is used when a product has an exploitable vulnerability, signs of active abuse, or an incident that may affect users or supply-chain partners. Good reporting workflows reduce confusion during triage, support coordinated disclosure, and help limit attacker dwell time by getting the right information to the right authority fast.