Business & Policy
National resilience
National resilience depends on essential digital systems continuing to operate, degrading safely and recovering under stress.
Why it matters
Resilience benefits appear only when the technology is available in suitable platforms, supported by software and skills, and integrated into sectors with long planning and replacement cycles.
In brief
National resilience depends on essential digital systems continuing to operate, degrading safely and recovering under stress. CHERI can contribute by reducing exploitability of some memory errors and enabling stronger containment within devices and services.
Key considerations
1. Systemic exposure
Identify widely deployed components whose compromise could cascade across organisations or services.
2. Adoption capacity
Develop suppliers, open-source maintenance, evaluation facilities, training and assurance capability alongside hardware.
3. Transition
Use pilots, procurement signals and compatible software paths so resilience improves without creating brittle new dependencies.
Evidence and caveats
No processor feature eliminates systemic risk. Concentration, supply-chain compromise, operational error, identity failures and service dependencies still require separate treatment.
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