Ampere: Making Future Software Memory-Safe, a Path Towards Secure Cloud
The White House emphasizes reducing cyber attack surfaces by addressing memory safety vulnerabilities. Ampere's memory tagging technology enhances security by preventing memory-related exploits, offering robust protection for cloud services without performance impact.
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The White House Office of the National Cyber Director highlighted the importance of reducing cyber attack surfaces by addressing memory safety vulnerabilities in software. Past cyber events like Heartbleed and BLASTPASS were linked to such vulnerabilities. Ampere's innovative memory tagging technology aims to enhance security by detecting and preventing buffer overflow attacks and pointer errors. Memory Tagging assigns unique tags to memory and software pointers, ensuring data integrity and preventing malicious code execution. This feature offers protection against various memory-related exploits, enhancing system security without significant performance impact. By enabling Memory Tagging, cloud service providers can offer more secure services to customers, safeguarding against internal and external memory attacks. Ampere's focus on high performance extends to this security feature, providing robust protection for cloud products and solutions.
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