04 Apr 2023 Advanced Networking Security ARIN’s Routing Security Services Play Important Role for the Research and Education Community By Steven Wallace 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… Read More
29 Jun 2022 Security Advanced Networking Internet2 Offers New Routing Integrity Assessment Service 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… Read More
31 May 2022 Security Take a Closer Look at the Internet2 Routing Integrity Initiative 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. Read More
12 May 2022 Internet2 Announcements Internet2 Submits Comments to FCC on Secure Internet Routing Estimated reading time: 2 minutes Central to the internet’s global routing system, Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) is used to exchange reachability information among independently operated networks on the internet. Of the more than 75,000 BGP-interconnected networks that make up the public internet,… Read More
31 Mar 2022 Security Twitter Thwarts Route Hijacking with Free Service Available to Research and Education Networks 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… Read More
21 Mar 2022 Security How to Enable ARIN’s Registry Services to Secure Legacy IP Resources By Steven Wallace, Internet2 Security Architect Estimated reading time: 2 minutes Many Internet2 community organizations have IP networks that were allocated before ARIN, or the American Registry for Internet Numbers, was formed. These networks are known as “legacy resources.” While ARIN has never required holders… Read More
31 Aug 2021 From the Community Security From IRR Data Veracity to RPKI Validator Software: Let’s Keep Up the Routing Security Enthusiasm! By Andrew Gallo, Principal IT Architect, The George Washington University Estimated reading time: 3 minutes Routing security continues to be an active area of discussion, both in the research and education networking community and across the industry. Let’s keep the enthusiasm going! IRR Data Clean-Up Steven Wallace, Internet2 Security Architect, has been holding… Read More