News, announcements, and analysis from the CHERI Alliance and its members.
The complete Alliance news archive, ordered with the newest article first.
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 vulner...
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Adam Finney – CHERI Alliance If you are building secure hardware, the way you protect software running inside that hardware matters just as much as the cryptography around it. That is why...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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Interview with Ron Black, CEO of Codasip Codasip is a founding member of the CHERI Alliance and one of the most active industrial players in the CHERI ecosystem. From the outset, Codasip ...
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Brooks Davis – Capabilities Limited This article is part of a series of blogs published after the announcement of Mythos vulnerabilities’ exploitation capabilities. The views from other e...
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We are pleased to welcome Wind River to the CHERI Alliance, marking another important step forward in building a more secure computing ecosystem. Building on its existing work with CHERI,...
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Mike Eftimakis – CHERI Alliance This article is part of a series of blogs published after the announcement of Mythos vulnerabilities’ exploitation capabilities. The views from other exper...
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For more than a decade, CHERI research has demonstrated that hardware enforced memory safety can eliminate entire classes of security vulnerabilities. Much of this work has taken place in...
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Strengthening the CHERI ecosystem through Open-Source innovation We are excited to announce that The Capable Hub has become a member of the CHERI Alliance, a significant step forward in o...
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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...
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Oxford UK – 3 February 2026 – EnSilica, a leading provider of mixed-signal ASICs (Application-Specific Integrated Circuits), today announced that it has joined the CHERI Alliance. In a wo...
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Alfredo Mazzinghi – Capabilities Limited QEMU is one of the most popular open source machine emulators (https://www.qemu.org), with support for many CPU architectures, including x86_64, A...
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On 21 January 2026, technology leaders, engineers, security practitioners and compliance specialists will gather at IWM Duxford for Secure Horizons 2026, a one day, in person event hosted...
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Andrew Lindsay – Codasip Codasip’s CHERI-RISC-V processors and exploration kit enable breakthrough secure chip development and accelerate software innovation The UK government’s ambitious...
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Adam Finney – CHERI Alliance Interest in capability based security has grown rapidly as organisations look for practical ways to move beyond legacy memory protection. As more projects exp...
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Dr Marno van der Maas – CHERI Alliance The CHERI Alliance is dedicated to advancing the state-of-the-art in capability-based security. As our collaborative efforts and technical output gr...
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Brooks Davis – Capabilities Limited Capabilities Limited, a founding member of the CHERI Alliance, is pleased to announce that we have received funding from Innovate UK for our 22 month p...
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Mihai Ordean – University of Birmingham Innovate UK Project Winner At the University of Birmingham, in the Centre for Cyber Security and Privacy, we have over 15 years of combined experie...
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Adam Finney – CHERI Alliance The CHERITech’25 Conference was held on the 14th of November 2025 at the Sister – Renold Building, Manchester, bringing together leading figures from industry...
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Exciting news for the CHERI community! The winners of the latest Digital Security by Design (DSbD) innovation competitions have been announced, and once again the CHERI Alliance is right ...
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lowRISC CIC and Capabilities Limited, two founding members of the CHERI Alliance, have announced the launch of the COSMIC Project, supported by the UK Department for Science, Innovation a...
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Adam Finney – CHERI Alliance 5 November 2025, Cambridge – New Release CHERIoT 1.0 provides a stable, hardware-enforced platform for building memory safe, compartmentalised systems in the ...
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Adam Finney – CHERI Alliance 30 October 2025, London – Event Recap The IoT Security Foundation (IoTSF) and TechWorks AI held their annual Resilient IoT and Trustworthy AI Conference on Th...
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Mike Eftimakis – CHERI Alliance The CHERI Alliance is now distributing Arm Morello boards – the CHERI development journey continues beyond DSbD. The CHERI Alliance is thrilled to announce...
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Mike Eftimakis – CHERI Alliance If you’ve been watching the CHERI Alliance gather momentum, you’ve probably noticed a growing wave of community activity—talks, demos, explainers, and frie...
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Cambridge, UK – 5 September 2025 – The CHERI Alliance announces that the Electronic Design Automation segment of Siemens Digital Industries Software has joined the non-profit organisation...
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Andy Frame – SCI Semiconductor In the latter half of July I got the fantastic opportunity to re-visit Shanghai after a good few years of being away and wow, have I missed it. Shanghai is ...
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Hesham Almatary – Capabilities Limited We are happy to release a prototype of CHERI-seL4, an experimental version of the seL4 microkernel with CHERI support. This comes with CHERI-Microki...
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Join the CHERI Alliance – Collaborate, Communicate, Be Seen CHERI is reshaping how we think about secure technology. At the heart of this effort is the CHERI Alliance, a growing community...
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Cambridge, UK – 18 June 2025 – The CHERI Alliance, a global coalition dedicated to enhancing cybersecurity through groundbreaking hardware memory safety technology, is proud to announce t...
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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 pap...
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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 devel...
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Source: https://www.eetimes.com/cheriot-ibex-core-is-open-sourced-to-enable-memory-safe-mcus/
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“Open source release accelerates path to market for commercial CHERIoT-based secure microcontrollers, supporting industry adoption and innovation.” lowRISC C.I.C. and SCI Semiconductor ha...
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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 ...
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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 Pau...
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Founding members include global commercial, research, and open-source organizations, and several UK universities and government entities CAMBRIDGE, the United Kingdom – November 12, 2024 ...
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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...
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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. The new...
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Founding members include Capabilities Limited, Codasip, the FreeBSD Foundation, lowRISC, SCI Semiconductor, and the University of Cambridge. Cambridge, the United Kingdom, June 17, 2024 —...
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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 C...
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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 throu...
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