Wind River, an Aptiv company, announced it joined the CHERI Alliance to advance global adoption of CHERI security technology. CHERI architecture improves system security using memory protection and access controls to prevent memory corruption and unauthorized code execution. Wind River collaborates with the Alliance to build secure products and accelerate cybersecurity innovation by reducing critical memory vulnerabilities.
“Advances like CHERI mark an important shift toward hardware-enforced security as a foundation for next-generation systems. By addressing memory safety at the architectural level, CHERI has the potential to improve resilience across critical infrastructure and intelligent edge deployments,” said Paul Miller, CTO, Intelligent Systems, Software and Services, Aptiv. “Wind River is excited to collaborate with the CHERI Alliance and contribute our expertise in real-time operating systems and virtualization, leveraging VxWorks and the Helix Virtualization Platform to help operationalize CHERI in production environments.”
“The CHERI Alliance is bringing the ecosystem together to collaborate and make it easier for the industry to design more secure products,” said Mike Eftimakis, founding director of the CHERI Alliance.“We are excited to welcome Wind River to the CHERI Alliance. Their expertise and collaboration with our community will be a significant boost to our mission to accelerate CHERI adoption.”
Innovate UK Partnership Strengthens Secure RISC-V Development
Wind River secured a contract under a strategic initiative from Innovate UK and the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology. The company will port and extend VxWorks RTOS and Helix Platform to leverage CHERI on RISC-V architecture for secure applications. This project enhances system reliability and security for safety-critical and embedded systems while advancing scalable RTOS development on RISC-V platforms.
“Working with an industry leader like Wind River will help companies accelerate innovation using industry-grade CHERI-enabled software for a new class of secure RISC-V embedded devices,” said Georgios Papadakis, Senior Innovation Lead, Secure and Resilient Growth Directorate, Innovate UK. “Transitioning Wind River platforms to CHERI RISC-V combines the power of a proven RTOS like VxWorks that has extensive safety certifications with the strengthened digital security and resilience of CHERI technology.”
Wind River previously completed architecture ports of VxWorks and Helix Platform supporting CHERI on Armv8-based Morello hardware successfully. With CHERI now enabled on RISC-V, Wind River strengthens leadership in commercial RTOS architecture and expands secure computing capabilities globally.
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News Source: Businesswire.com
