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Secure, Compliant Embedded Software—Even at Scale
- Modern embedded systems are becoming more software-dependent, leading to larger and more complex codebases that require thorough security and compliance checks to prevent potential harm.
- Automotive IVI systems, like those using the Android Open Source Project platform with 50+ million lines of code, make manual code reviews impractical, emphasizing the need for automated tools for analysis.
- Static analysis techniques have evolved to handle the challenges posed by the growing complexity of codebases, improving efficiency and speeding up the review process.
- Dataflow analysis tools face performance challenges due to increasing codebase sizes, with the most efficient ones taking several hours to analyze large systems like Android.
- Besides static analysis times, managing compliance data, especially for systems with no prior coding guidelines, presents a significant challenge that requires efficient storage and processing.
- Customized variants in the automotive sector further complicate compliance management, necessitating a centralized database to streamline the tracking and reporting of millions of compliance findings across multiple versions.
- Utilizing centralized management and reporting dashboards is crucial for handling vast amounts of compliance data efficiently and generating sensitive compliance reports based on development streams.
- Implementing processes like baselining can help developers focus on new issues and avoid being overwhelmed by historical backlogs, ensuring visibility of security vulnerabilities and easier issue resolution.
- By integrating compliance processes into developers' daily workflows and leveraging quality gates, early error detection and resolution can be achieved, resulting in improved code quality and reduced remediation costs.
- Despite the continuous expansion of codebases in complexity and size, ongoing advancements in tools and techniques aim to keep pace with the evolving challenges of embedded software development.
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