In the functional safety world, once a system is developed, it remains protected as long as the system is in service. In contrast, the security world demands that software must continue to defend a ...

With the ever-increasing complexity and connectedness of product design, ensuring that the software on which end users depend is safe will continue to be a priority. Earlier this year, it was ...

I was obsessed with agile methodology, DevOps automation and the shift to cloud-first architectures. Each of these movements felt like a revolution at the time. Still, the rise of agentic AI in ...

Data drives modern healthcare. Wearables can continuously monitor patients living at home while point-of-care medical technologies stream data into databases. Meanwhile, connected systems create ...

Imagine a world where hackers can easily hijack the software controlling a ventilator or breach patient data. The ...

An ever-increasing reliance on software control and the nature of the applications has led many companies to undertake safety-related analysis and testing. Consider the antilock braking and traction ...

The SIL is then carried forward throughout the rest of the development process. Developers not only have to achieve the safety goals for their given SIL, they have to prove that the safety goals are ...

Summary: Baylor College of Medicine seeks to set a requirement that all software application development efforts adhere to an appropriate set of standards. Any department or vendor hired by the ...

When you’re developing safety-critical software systems, two categories of standards dictate how you should go about it: process standards and coding standards. Research by the U.S. National Institute ...

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The methods technology companies use to develop new software for their customers have changed in recent years, making applying the rules for capitalization of software development cost more ...

Coding standards aren’t enough on their own. If functional safety is to be ensured, then the whole development life cycle needs to adhere to best practices. For that, we can turn to the process ...