Building safer foundations for digital systems

For journalists and editors

Press resources

Describe CHERI accurately, distinguish technology from product claims and use the approved contact and brand routes before publication.

Fast fact check

Five checks before publishing

  1. Expand the name correctly.CHERI stands for Capability Hardware Enhanced RISC Instructions.
  2. Describe the mechanism.Capabilities carry hardware-enforced bounds, permissions and protected validity.
  3. Keep the claim proportionate.CHERI addresses important memory-safety and compartmentalisation problems; it does not make a whole product invulnerable.
  4. Name the implementation.Morello, CHERI-RISC-V and CHERIoT are related but not interchangeable targets.
  5. Date availability claims.Separate research, development-platform, commercially available and planned status.

Source routes

Use the right material

Follow a claim to a source capable of supporting it.

Academic papersPeer-reviewed and technical evidence for architecture, software and security claims.SpecificationsNormative behavior for a named architecture and revision.Member directoryCurrent organisational participation, not product certification.Brand and trademarkRules for using the CHERI name and supplied logos.

Press contact

Send a focused request.

Include the publication, audience, subject, requested contributor, format, deadline and the claim you need to verify. Do not send embargoed or vulnerability-sensitive material through a general form without first agreeing a suitable route.

Contact the Alliance

Official media downloads remain available from the Alliance’s press resources page. Use the local trademark guidance before publication.