A new ETSI standard could rewrite the memory-safety debate
Mike Eftimakis – CHERI Alliance ETSI TS 104 198 establishes a common language for memory safety Memory-safety vulnerabilities remain one of the largest sources of critical software vulnerabilities. Despite years of investment in safer languages, hardware protections, and secure development practices, the industry has lacked a common way to define and compare memory-safety technologies. That […]
The EU Cyber Resilience Act: What It Means for Secure-by-Design Systems and CHERI
In 2025 alone, global cybercrime costs reached an estimated $1.2 billion every minute, with projections rising to $1.8 billion per minute by 2029. Just seven years earlier, the figure was “only” $100 million per minute—already enormous, but now eclipsed by today’s scale.
UK Government report highlights the CHERI Alliance
The Department for Science Innovation and Technology (DSIT) of the British Government has published a report about CHERI adoption and diffusion, to “understand the potential market” for CHERI and “how the Department can encourage and support the adoption and diffusion of the technology in semiconductors”. We are proud to see that the CHERI Alliance is highlighted in this […]
The White House promotes CHERI as a solution for memory safety
The White House has published a report highlighting the need for “securing the building blocks of cyberspace”, where they highlight CHERI as a solution that can enable memory safety through hardware features, recognizing that re-writing existing code in memory-safe languages cannot be feasible. Interestingly, the joined Press Release highlighted the need for “shifting the responsibility […]