Accelerating CHERI together

The CHERI ecosystem includes several organisations with complementary missions. The CHERI Research Centre, The Capable Hub, and the CHERI Alliance each play different roles, but work closely together to help turn CHERI research into practical products, open-source software, standards, and real-world deployment.

Strengthening the CHERI Ecosystem Together

	The CHERI Alliance Coordinating the global CHERI ecosystem

The CHERI Alliance helps coordinate the global CHERI ecosystem by bringing together industry, academia, government, and open-source communities.

Our role includes:

• Organising collaboration through working groups, community events, and conferences such as CHERI Blossoms and CHERITech.
• Supporting ecosystem alignment through standards activities, certification, and technical guidance.
• Promoting CHERI adoption through education, outreach, and community engagement.

	The Capable Hub Engineering open-source CHERI software

The Capable Hub provides engineering expertise, infrastructure, and open-source software that help organisations build and deploy CHERI-enabled products.

Key contributions include:

• Developing and maintaining CHERI-enabled open-source software and supporting upstream adoption.
• Providing shared engineering infrastructure, including CI systems and hardware-in-the-loop testing.
• Helping mature research software and prototypes into reusable components for real-world deployment.

	The CHERI Research Centre Advancing CHERI through world leading research

The CHERI Research Centre at the University of Cambridge has led CHERI research for more than fifteen years.

Its contributions include:

• Advancing CHERI architecture, software, prototyping, and standards development.
• Collaborating with industry to ensure research reflects real-world needs.
• Exploring new directions for CHERI technology and memory-safe computing.

From research to adoption

• The CHERI Research Centre develops new concepts, architectures, and technologies.
• The Capable Hub helps turn research into robust software, tooling, infrastructure, and reusable components.
• The CHERI Alliance connects those technologies with adopters, standards activities, certification, education, and the wider ecosystem.

Shared goals

Together, the three organisations:

• Accelerate CHERI adoption across industry, academia, and open source.
• Support the development of reliable CHERI-enabled software, platforms, and products.
• Help move secure computing technologies from research into real-world deployment.

Interested in helping shape the future of memory-safe computing? Join the CHERI Alliance!