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Wrapping up the BGP Security Month

We dedicated the whole April to BGP security. If you missed any of those articles, here is a recap.

The MD5 password and GTSM
Back in the late 1980s and the early 1990s when BGP was developed, security was still an afterthought for protocols used on the internet. Since that time, we've come to realize that there are two potential security issues with BGP: you may be talking to the wrong device, or the right device may be saying the wrong thing...
Apr 1, 2015

Announcing prefixes without authorization
In 1997, a small ISP in Virginia caused a major disruption to the internet, known as the "AS 7007 incident". What happened was that AS 7007 started to take prefixes from other autonomous systems and split those up into /24s and propagate those "more specifics" to its ISP Sprint...
Apr 14, 2015

An overview of the RPKI framework
The Resource Public Key Infrastructure (RPKI) system is a way to couple an IP address range to an autonomous system number through cryptographic signatures, described in RFC 6480. IP prefixes and AS numbers are the resources; the public key infrastructure is run by the five Regional Internet Registries (RIRs) that give out IP addresses and AS numbers...
Apr 23, 2015

The BGPsec protocol
At this time, the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) is still working on documents that provide an overview of BGPsec and the BGPsec specification. BGPsec looks a lot like Secure BGP or S-BGP that was developed in the late 1990s at BBN Technologies. Unlike RPKI, BGPsec is an integral part of the BGP protocol, and thus, BGP routers must do the heavy lifting...
Apr 30, 2015
NOCTION NEWS

Rackfish selects Noction IRP for real-time route optimization

Apr 24, 2015

Rackfish, a hosting services provider specialized in Campaign hosting, has deployed the Intelligent Routing Platform in its primary hosting location in Stockholm, Sweden. Read More >>

ManagedWay deploys Noction IRP to optimize traffic delivery

Apr 6, 2015

ManagedWay, a Michigan-based cloud services and colocation provider, deployed Noction`s Intelligent Routing Platform in Q1 2015 in its premiere Detroit data center. Read More >>

Meet us at NANOG 64
We are pleased to announce that Noction will sponsor the Beer n' Gear session during the NANOG Meeting in San Francisco. For those attending, you are welcome to pass by our table or schedule a meeting in advance.
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