19 Nov 2024 Advanced Networking Internet2 Announcements Internet2’s Steven Wallace Elected to MANRS Steering Committee in 2024 Estimated reading time: 2 minutes Steven Wallace, director of the Internet2 Routing Integrity Initiative, was recently elected to the Mutually Agreed Norms for Routing Security (MANRS) Steering Committee. He will serve a three-year term… Read More
11 Sep 2024 Advanced Networking Security What the Research & Education Community Learned From Three Impactful Routing Security Incidents in 2024 By Steven Wallace Estimated reading time: 4 minutes Countries with BGP autonomous systems represented in the GREN Routing security is an increasingly pressing concern for the research and education (R&E) community as common routing threats continue to disrupt critical network infrastructure. In 2024, three significant routing… Read More
21 Sep 2023 From the Community Security Community Takeaways From FCC Routing Security Workshop 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… Read More
22 Aug 2023 Advanced Networking Security Goals Turn Into Action as Community Works to Secure Legacy Networks Before Year-End 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,… 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