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Uniting leaders, system developers, users and security experts to drive and promote CHERI as an efficient security standard
CHERI Alliance is an industry initiative spearheading the global adoption of the Capability Hardware Enhanced RISC Instructions (CHERI) security technology across the computing industry
Building on over a decade of pioneering research by the University of Cambridge and SRI International, the CHERI technology is now ready to go into products to protect them against most cyberattacks.
The CHERI Alliance is actively engaging with the industry to take over the promotion and dissemination of the standard and activate an ecosystem to make it a commercial success.
The CHERI Alliance is an industry-wide initiative. Together we create value both for the standard and for CHERI-enabled products, be it processors, development tools, software libraries, chips, or even final products and services. The CHERI Alliance also aims to educate and support software communities and the ecosystem, to help them leverage the benefits of the CHERI technology to improve security.
Without standardisation, through common tooling and software, no industry adoption. Adopting a common definition of CHERI and aligning across ISAs is necessary to bring confidence but is also a guarantee of compatibility
By becoming a member, you collaborate with the ecosystem on standardization, promotion and education. It is by ensuring, together, technical alignment that we efficiently drive the evolution of the CHERI technology and standard for industry-wide adoption.
No matter which ISA you work with, you will play a crucial role in fostering the whole ecosystem to support CHERI, while having access to a wealth of knowledge and resources and exchanging with like-minded companies and research facilities.
The CHERI Alliance welcomes companies, researchers, individuals, and all organisations interested in the promotion of the CHERI technology and protection against cyberattacks.
By adding CHERI technology into a product, manufacturers protect their customers and their reputation.
Cybersecurity Ventures estimate that cyberattacks cost more than $10 trillion/year. This keeps increasing as the pressure goes up every year, and they anticipate that global spending on cybersecurity will exceed $1.75 trillion cumulatively over the five years from 2021 to 2025.
Most attacks result from memory misuse and unexpected software defects, which can be mitigated by CHERI. Vendors must increase the robustness of their products to solve the problem.
CHERI significantly improves system security by extending conventional hardware Instruction-Set Architectures (ISAs) with new features to enable fine-grained memory protection and highly scalable software compartmentalization. Instead of repeatedly patching newly discovered problems, CHERI adopts a preventive approach, making buffer overflows and other attack using memory misuse simply impossible.
CHERI provides the security reassurance end customers and even the most sensitive applications require. Supported to date by DARPA, UKRI, Google, Microsoft and Arm, CHERI is a major asset in the fight against cybercrime.
