Embedded security

The EU Cyber Resilience Act changed the question from "is your product secure" to "can you prove it." Regulators now want evidence, not intent: coding standards enforced and documented, vulnerabilities traced to a known weakness class, builds that can be reproduced exactly, and support committed for years rather than promised at launch. That evidence has to come from the toolchain itself, because it can't be assembled after the fact. 

Catching defects before they ship  

Most vulnerabilities don't start as attacks, they start as defects nobody caught. IAR's C-STAT enforces MISRA C/C++ and CERT C/C++ standards, catching CWE-mapped defects at compile time, before they reach the field or an audit. C-RUN picks up where static analysis stops, catching memory leaks and runtime errors code review alone misses. 

Staying protected for the long haul 

Catching defects early only helps if the product stays protected for its full field life. A 10-15 year lifespan needs patches and reproducible builds a decade out, which is exactly what IAR's Long-Term Support (LTS) Services provide, meeting CRA's multi-year support obligations as an engineering commitment, not a checkbox.

Pre-certified for IEC 61508, ISO 26262, and IEC 62304, IAR's toolchain lets safety and security reinforce each other. And since every build runs through version-locked, containerized IAR Build Tools, the binary that passed testing is the one that ships, rebuildable identically years later for a renewal or field investigation.

Together, these turn CRA compliance from paperwork into something the toolchain does by default. And beyond CRA, the same evidence trail applies to RED/EN 18031, IEC 62443, and FDA/IEC 81001-5-1.