14
Dec
2023
Adapting to the Future of Network Security in Research and Education
Estimated reading time: 5 minutes With a Proposed New Standard on the Horizon for Internet Exchange Points, Now Is the Time to Embrace Advanced Routing Security Protections A group of internet exchange point (IXP) operators recently proposed a new standard for routing security…
22
Aug
2023
Goals Turn Into Action as Community Works to Secure Legacy Networks Before Year-End
Estimated reading time: 3 minutes Seventy-four. That’s the number of organizations across the U.S. research and education community that have taken action to secure their legacy network resources since the start of 2023. Those 74 organizations include universities, colleges, supercomputing centers, K-12 schools,…
04
Apr
2023
ARIN’s Routing Security Services Play Important Role for the Research and Education Community
Estimated reading time: 4 minutes As early adopters of internet technology, many network operators in the research and education (R&E) community use IP numbers allocated to them before ARIN (American Registry for Internet Numbers) came into existence. ARIN is one of the five…
28
Feb
2023
Preparing for Resource Public Key Infrastructure Route Origin Validation
An increasing number of network providers are implementing Resource Public Key Infrastructure Route Origin Validation (RPKI-ROV) to identify and mitigate false routing information that might arise by accident or attempted route hijacking. This trend includes Internet Service Providers and non-profit organizations like Internet2 that provide connectivity for the research and…
10
Nov
2022
ARIN Agreement Changes Offer 2 More Reasons to Secure Legacy Network Resources Before 2024
Estimated reading time: 4 minutes The American Registry for Internet Numbers (ARIN) recently released a new version of the Registration Services Agreement (RSA) and announced forthcoming increases to the legacy resource fee structure – offering…
29
Jun
2022
Internet2 Offers New Routing Integrity Assessment Service
Estimated reading time: 2 minutes As part of its Routing Integrity Initiative, Internet2 is launching a new service to assist network operators and engineers in assessing their network’s implementation of routing integrity controls. The Internet2 Routing Integrity Assessment Service uses…
31
May
2022
Take a Closer Look at the Internet2 Routing Integrity Initiative
Estimated reading time: 3 minutes The Internet2 Routing Integrity Initiative aims to improve the research and education (R&E) community’s adoption of best practices that strengthen the resilience and reliability of data movement across the R&E network ecosystem to support our shared missions. Routing…
31
Mar
2022
Twitter Thwarts Route Hijacking with Free Service Available to Research and Education Networks
Estimated reading time: 1 minute On Monday, March 28, the Russian ISP RTCOMM began blocking Twitter from their users. Due to a misconfiguration, for a period of 45-minutes, their routing leak had the ripple effect of attempting to hijack…
17
May
2021
Internet2, ARIN Discuss Actions That Could Protect US R&E Networks
Estimated reading time: 3 minutes Ninety-five percent of network routes originating from US research and education (R&E) institutions lack a form of hijack protection known as RPKI, or Resource Public Key Infrastructure. Adding this layer of security is something that the IP address…
16
Apr
2021
MANRS Gaining Momentum, New Route Reports Published
Estimated reading time: 2 minutes MANRS, the Mutually Agreed Norms for Routing Security global initiative, is gaining momentum across the research and education (R&E) community. Andrew Gallo, Principal IT Architect at The George Washington University, serves on the MANRS Advisory Group, and I…
24
Feb
2021
IPv6 is the Internet’s Future – and Together with ARIN We’ll Help You Enable IPv6
Estimated reading time: 2 minutes While our community led early IPv6 development, the commercial sector has taken the lead. As early founders of the internet, US research and education institutions hold a disproportionate share of IPv4 addresses, lessening incentives to embrace IPv6. While…
28
Sep
2020
Internet2 Community Completes Network Routing Policy, Publishes Plan
Estimated reading time: 5 minutes We are pleased to announce that Internet2 has completed and published its routing policy as of July 29, 2020. The Internet2 community worked together to complete their routing policy records so that 99% of the routes fulfill the…
27
Mar
2020
Optimizing Your Home Network for Working and Learning
Estimated reading time: 4 minutes When students reposition to home locations, traffic patterns change. In most cases, the network traffic from the student to the cloud-based learning management systems and video applications will use commercial networks (i.e., the broadband in their home or…
13
Mar
2020
Using The Cloud to Surge VPN Capacity
Estimated reading time: 2 minutes If your campus has deployed a cloud-based VPN and you are willing to share your experiences with others, we’d like to hear from you! Campus network operators use VPNs to both provide network access control, through user and…
18
Sep
2019
Google Routing Policy/IRR Updates, Office Hours for Internet2 Community Network Operators
Estimated reading time: 2 minutes Google has announced that it will require IRR records documenting the routing policy of all prefixes Google receives from its peer networks as early as October, 2019. Internet2 is providing support for campuses and regionals as they work…