Despite White House encouragement to implement RPKI, the protocol is not yet stable or secure enough, according to a team of German researchers. Resource Public Key Infrastructure (RPKI) is not yet ...

What is BGP? If you have to explain what BGP is to someone new to the service provider environment, the best definition is it's the routing protocol that makes the internet work. The protocol ...

Alexander Slagg is a freelance writer specializing in technology and education. He is an ongoing contributor to the CDW family of magazines. While BGP’s importance may be obscured among the numerous ...

The Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) underpins the global routing system by exchanging reachability information among autonomous systems (ASes). Despite its centrality, BGP remains vulnerable to a range ...

As more and more networks are implementing Resource Public Key Infrastructure (RPKI) validation and signing of their BGP routes—to protect themselves against route hijacks and leaks, what should ...

A well-known weakness in Border Gateway Protocol routing was exploited this week, as Amazon Web Services' DNS traffic was hijacked for two hours, enabling the attacker to steal about $150,000 in ...

Lurking at the core of all modern internet traffic is a protocol that few properly understand and even fewer know how to actually secure. Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) is the core routing protocol ...

Some of the world’s top network engineers are engaged in a research effort that could lead to the most radical redesign of the Internet’s underlying routing architecture since it was developed in the ...

ARIN to Test BGP Routes by Temporarily Taking Down RPKI - 30 Minutes of Unprotected Browsing? ARIN decides to perform temporary maintenance of RPKI - how will the network protect itself from hackers?