A Regional Look into BGP Incidents in 2020
By Augusto Mathurin, MANRS Fellow (2020 Cohort) While the MANRS team has already covered Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) security and the MANRS Year in Review for 2020,…
CDN & Cloud Providers Improve Routing Security with Expanded & Improved MANRS Program Actions
Content Delivery Networks (CDNs) and cloud providers exchange traffic with thousands of other networks so data can flow efficiently around the world, and their participation in MANRS amplifies the positive…
3 Common Pitfalls in RPKI Deployment and How To Avoid Them
By Dr. Bahaa Al-Musawi, MANRS Fellow (2020 cohort) Despite its critical role in Internet connectivity, Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) is still highly vulnerable to different types of attacks. While…
Mastering Routing Security at APRICOT 2021
One of the biggest events of the year is APRICOT, the annual Asia Pacific Regional Internet Conference on Operational Technologies. This year, it offers online technical training from February 22…
2020: A Record Year for MANRS
Over the past year, COVID-19 underlined the importance of a secure and resilient Internet to ensure we stay connected online. For MANRS, this meant even more incentive to work with…
Did someone try to hijack Twitter? Yes!
On 1 February, Myanmar’s army took power in a coup against the elected government and detained the civilian leadership. Restrictions to the Internet were reported as people woke up to…
Major Route Leak by AS28548 – Another BGP Optimizer?
It’s usually not good news to get a Twitter notification from Qrator on a Saturday morning. Unfortunately, this one was no exception. Now that a severe incident has happened, let’s…
New tool helps answer: Which RPKI-related RFCs should I read?
By Alfred Arouna, MANRS Fellow (2020 cohort) Resource Public Key Infrastructure (RPKI) is the way to cryptographically sign records that associate a Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) route announcement with the…
BGP, RPKI, and MANRS: 2020 in review
This article originally appeared on APNIC, which has kindly let us repost it. In 2020, the Internet was a lifeline for many people across the world as…