Archive | Routing Security

By Dr. Bahaa Al-Musawi, MANRS Fellow (2020 cohort) Resource Public Key Infrastructure (RPKI), as defined in RFC 6810, was proposed to authenticate the relationship between a prefix and its…

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,…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…