The LDRA tool suite from LDRA – a TASKING Company – is the software winner of VDC Research’s 2025 ‘Embeddy’ Award, presented to companies announcing important advances and innovations for embedded software developers and/or system engineers.
With new features introduced at embedded world North America in early November, the LDRA tool suite now integrates airborne functional safety and cybersecurity software verification capabilities that minimise challenges and risks while reducing cost and time-to-market.
“Congratulations to LDRA for its breakthrough in airborne functional safety and cybersecurity verification, raising the bar for safety and security in the skies,” wrote VDC Executive Vice President Chris Rommel in a LinkedIn post announcing the honour. “The LDRA tool suite empowers developers to meet the toughest aviation compliance standards, including DO-326B/356A and DO-178C, helping teams streamline verification and certification while tackling the growing complexity of connected airborne systems.”
Security vulnerabilities introduced into such connected airborne systems – including unmanned and manned platforms – can compromise mission success and passenger safety. To prevent such vulnerabilities before they arise, developers can use the LDRA tool suite to consider security and safety together with more automated security analysis, verification and reporting capabilities specifically targeted at these aviation applications.
“This honour from one of the most respected research firms validates the efforts we put into giving our customers what they need to prevent security and safety vulnerabilities from the start, and actually prove it, no matter their industry,” said Christoph Herzog, Co-CEO & CTO, TASKING. “With the updates to the LDRA tool suite specifically targeted at the aviation industry, developers now have all of the security analysis, verification and reporting capabilities they need to build functionally safe and secure aviation applications that comply with the most stringent aviation compliance standards.”
The LDRA tool suite’s new capabilities for airborne systems include secure coding practices, aimed at preventing vulnerabilities from entering code in the first place through compliance with secure coding standards such as MISRA, CERT, and CWE; refutation analysis through smart fuzzing, and robustness testing to evaluate how software behaves under unexpected, invalid, or extreme inputs or operating conditions.
