Research Papers and Projects Exploring BGP Hijacking & Routing Mistakes Risk The BGP Hijacking Risks profile attracts a wide academic interest. This interest attracts government and private research funding to explore new anti-BGP Hijacking tools, techniques, and resiliency approaches. This work is always worth reading, tracking, and exploring to see apply to real-world operations. Monitor,
Category: Operator’s Security Toolkit
What can Enterprises do to protect against BGP Hijacks?
Yes, you can minimize the risk to BGP Hijacks. All enterprises around the world need to have a conversation around BGP Hijacks. We see security news around malware, phishing ransomware, DOS attacks, breaches, and range of other attacks. What we do not see is conversations around BGP Hijacks. A BGP Hijack can happen on one Read More
Seven Critical Security Conversations
Everyone needs to have Seven Critical Security Conversations with their vendors, supply chain partners, and other organizations who help with your security & resiliency posture. The wave of supply chain security conversations that was sparked by the Bloomberg articles has people talking (see The Big Hack: How China Used a Tiny Chip to Infiltrate U.S. Read More
Master Class in Internet Networking …. Free
Nick Feamster Provides Operators, Engineers, and Students with the Tools to Understand How the Internet is Glued Together Who is Nick Feamster? Dr. Nick Feamster is known in the Internet Operations community as one of our primary source of great talent, research that pushes the Industry forward, a deep-dive investigation into security issues on the Read More
FlowSpec – Using BGP for Rapid DOS Response
Using BGP FlowSpec to Push an ACL to the Edge of the Network, to Stop a DOS Attacks, and Build a DOS Response Architecture Version (0.7) FlowSpec provides large networks with an ability to push a layer 4 ACL rapidly to the edge of the network using the Network Layer Reachability Information (NRLI) expansion of
Hardware & Software Vulnerabilities are Guaranteed
The long years of experience have taught me through experience, hardware & software vulnerabilities are guaranteed. It is not a matter of “if” but when. The sad reality is that most hardware and software vendors are not ready for vulnerabilities when they happen. Their response ranges from “I’m going to take legal suit” against the Read More
BGP Route Hijacks & Routing Mistakes – What can be done Today?
Protecting your Business, Customers, & the Internet from BGP Route Hijacking Chaos? (DRAFT – Version 0.11) The Internet is glued together with the Board Gateway Protocol (BGP). It may not be perceived as the “perfect” protocol, but it has delivered a transformative global network that spans the Internet and all telecommunications. It is stable, transparent,
Are your customers infected with VPNFilter?
Everyone is talking about VPNFilter, but there is little information to know if my customers, my staff, or my own home is at risk? How do can I get plugged in? Understanding if you are at risk would be helpful to know if you need to drop everything and fix it now, fix it this Read More
7 Habits of Highly Effective Cyber-Criminals
Yes, there are habits of highly effective cyber-criminals use to be successful! We can leverage the knowledge of these habits to better prepare, defend, and attribute attacks. To understand where these habits were first observed, we must go back to the point where the Internet explosion was creating the opportunity for new criminal enterprises. Read More
Meaningful Security Conversations with your Vendors
How does any organization have productive and meaningful security conversations? This guide offers a simple and meaningful security conversation guide. These conversations would help the organization determine the real security risk from their vendors. This is an updated version of a set of questions Operators (and vendors) can use to have these meaningful conversations. With