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Updated: 2024-09-12 18:13:34 Pacfic

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White House Unveils Roadmap to Enhance Internet Routing Security - 8d

The White House Office of the National Cyber Director (ONCD) has published a roadmap for improving the security of the Border Gateway Protocol (BGP), a crucial internet routing protocol. BGP is vulnerable to configuration errors and attacks that can disrupt internet connectivity. The ONCD wants federal agencies and network operators to implement a public key cryptography scheme, Resource Public Key Infrastructure (RPKI), to enhance BGP security. This roadmap follows a recommendation from the US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) that urges large US ISPs to improve BGP security. The initiative aims to address BGP’s security weaknesses and mitigate the risk of internet disruption, highlighting the importance of securing critical internet infrastructure.

References

  • News | CSO Online - The White House Office of the National Cyber Director (ONCD) has published its roadmap for fixing increasingly troublesome security weaknesses in the Internet’s core routing protocol, Border Gateway Protocol (BGP). is infamously prone to configuration errors that can have consequences serious enough to temporarily disrupt parts of the Internet. It’s also the target of attacks that, among other things, maliciously divert traffic. “BGP’s original design properties do not adequately address the threat to and resilience requirements of today’s internet ecosystem,” fact sheet. “The potential for widespread disruption of internet infrastructure, whether carried out accidentally or maliciously, is a national security concern,” it adds.
  • www.whitehouse.gov - The White House Office of the National Cyber Director (ONCD) published a fact sheet about the roadmap.
  • www.networkworld.com - The White House Office of the National Cyber Director (ONCD) has published its roadmap for fixing increasingly troublesome security weaknesses in the Internet’s core routing protocol, Border Gateway Protocol (BGP). is infamously prone to configuration errors that can have consequences serious enough to temporarily disrupt parts of the Internet. It’s also the target of attacks that, among other things, maliciously divert traffic.

Classification:

  • Type: Vulnerability
  • Severity: Medium
  • Company: null
  • Target: Internet Infrastructure
  • Product: BGP






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