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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
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,…
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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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Mar
2022
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…
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Aug
2021
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…
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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…
