Unlocking the Future: A Roadmap for CHERI Technology Advancement
Mike Eftimakis – CHERI Alliance In the rapidly evolving landscape of cybersecurity, the quest for robust and secure hardware foundations has never been more critical. A groundbreaking paper from the Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (DSTL) – Biting the CHERI bullet: Blockers, Enablers and Security Implications of CHERI in Defence – sheds light on the […]
Recent advances in CHERI enhancing stability, maturity, and accessibility as urged by the UK’s DSTL
Andy Lindsay & Carl Shaw – Codasip The DSTL paper “Biting the CHERI bullet: Blockers, Enablers and Security Implications of CHERI in Defence” collates and analyzes feedback on CHERI development by 15 independent teams across industry and academia on the Morello research platform. This work provides a useful set of feedback based on their Morello […]
Building a Safer Digital Future
The Call for Memory Safety Standards and CHERI’s Role The conversation around software memory safety is reaching a critical turning point. In a recent publication in the Communications of the ACM, industry experts have called for a decisive move toward standardizing principles and practices to mitigate memory safety vulnerabilities. These vulnerabilities, responsible for a significant […]
‘Cybersecurity by Design – from Research to Industry’ — Conference Report
At the first CHERI Alliance conference, organised in partnership with Cynam and NCSC, we had a packed out event, with a full hall at Hub8 MX in Cheltenham for the opening keynote from Paul Waller (from the National Cyber Security Centre, NCSC, a part of GCHQ). His talk covered ways to incentivise the adoption of […]
CHERI Alliance Officially Launches, Adds Major Partners including Google, to Tackle Cybersecurity Threats at the Hardware Level
Founding members include global commercial, research, and open-source organizations, and several UK universities and government entities CAMBRIDGE, the United Kingdom – November 12, 2024 – The CHERI Alliance CIC (Community Interest Company) today announced its official launch and the expansion of its membership, welcoming Chevin Technology (UK), Critical Technologies (USA), the Defence Science and Technology […]
Codasip enables secure Linux by donating CHERI RISC-V SDK to the CHERI Alliance
Open access to complete SDK with Linux kernel will simplify building and testing of CHERI-enabled RISC-V applications Codasip has donated its newly developed Software Development Kit (SDK) for CHERI to the community-interest organization CHERI Alliance, who makes the SDK freely available for download on GitHub. “As more organizations and governments discover the potential of the […]
End-users demand memory safety in their systems
The Digital Security by Design all-hands conference was held last week in Leeds, and it was the opportunity to measure the progress of CHERI and see how much is already available.
Initial members join CHERI Alliance to drive adoption of memory safety and scalable software compartmentalization
Founding members include Capabilities Limited, Codasip, the FreeBSD Foundation, lowRISC, SCI Semiconductor, and the University of Cambridge
