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