Earlier this month, a U.K. government initiative called Digital Security by Design (DSbD) held a showcase in London to enable companies with pioneering technologies to demonstrate their products, technologies and solutions that could tackle a perceived market failure in integrating fundamental hardware security and, ultimately, reduce the economic impact of cyber major security breaches caused by memory safety vulnerabilities.
A key to addressing this is a technology called CHERI (Capability Hardware Enhanced RISC Instructions), for which the story starts around 2010. The DSbD initiative was then put in place in 2019 because of £70 million (about $88.4 million) U.K. government funding earlier that year to figure out how industry could implement memory safe technologies like CHERI, build prototypes and look at bringing it to market in a commercially viable way.