Securing Mission-Critical LabVIEW Apps for the Cyber Resilience Act

Regulations like the EU's Cyber Resilience Act and U.S. Executive Order 14028 are pushing engineering teams to prove their software is secure, not just functional — and LabVIEW developers are no exception. In a new article for Electronic Design, JKI's Jamie Smith explains why static analysis is becoming the core practice for secure LabVIEW development, since it examines source code for issues like hard-coded credentials, race conditions, and command injection risks before an application ever ships. 

The piece also digs into how mapping LabVIEW security findings to industry-standard Common Weakness Enumerations (CWEs) lets teams evaluate LabVIEW applications using the same security framework already applied to languages like C++, Python, and Java. Smith walks through the growing importance of software bills of materials (SBOMs) for supply-chain visibility, the value of building security tooling around open standards rather than proprietary formats, and how integrating static analysis and SBOM generation into CI/CD pipelines can turn compliance from a last-minute scramble into an ongoing engineering practice. 

For LabVIEW-based organizations in aerospace, defense, medical devices, and industrial automation, the takeaway is clear: the tools needed to bring modern software assurance to graphical programming environments are finally here.

See the full article on ElectronicDesign.com: Securing Mission-Critical LabVIEW Apps for the Cyber Resilience Act