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Sep
2023
By Andrew Gallo, Principal IT Architect, The George Washington University Estimated reading time: 7 minutes This blog post is submitted by Internet2 community member Andrew Gallo, Principal IT Architect at The George Washington University. Viewpoints expressed in this post are those of the…
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Aug
2023
By Steven Wallace
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,…
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Jun
2022
By Steven Wallace
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…
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May
2022
By Steven Wallace
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…
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May
2022
By Adair Thaxton
Estimated reading time: 3 minutes Security Scene is a monthly roundup of cybersecurity news highlights compiled by Internet2 Cyberinfrastructure Security Engineer Adair Thaxton. Adair connects recent headlines to security best practices, within the lens of the research and education community and our broader…
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Mar
2022
By Steven Wallace
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…
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Jan
2022
By Steven Wallace, Internet2 Security Architect
Estimated reading time: 3 minutes Update: This blog has been updated to reflect ARIN’s revised deadline for the IRR transition. With the April 2022 deadline for ARIN’s IRR transition fast approaching, here’s what network operators need to know now: Over 60 organizations that…
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Jun
2021
By Steven Wallace, Internet2 Security Architect
Estimated reading time: 1 minute Do you have questions concerning how to document your network routing policy using Internet Routing Registries (IRR)? How to protect your networks using RPKI? How Mutually Agreed Norms for Routing Security (MANRS) actions can help…
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May
2021
By Steven Wallace
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…
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Apr
2021
By Steven Wallace
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…
