Steven Wallace ssw@internet2.edu Director, Internet2 Routing Integrity Steve Wallace promotes the adoption and improvement of routing security and integrity throughout the Internet2 community. He has been an active community member for over 24 years, having started as the engineer responsible for the team that built Abilene, Internet2's first network. 11 Sep 2024 Advanced Networking Security What the Research & Education Community Learned From Three Impactful Routing Security Incidents in 2024 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 14 Dec 2023 Advanced Networking Security Adapting to the Future of Network Security in Research and Education Estimated reading time: 5 minutes With a Proposed New Standard on the Horizon for Internet Exchange Points, Now Is the Time to Embrace Advanced Routing Security Protections A group of internet exchange point (IXP) operators recently proposed a new standard for routing security… Read More 22 Aug 2023 Advanced Networking Security Goals Turn Into Action as Community Works to Secure Legacy Networks Before Year-End 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 04 Apr 2023 Advanced Networking Security ARIN’s Routing Security Services Play Important Role for the Research and Education Community Estimated reading time: 4 minutes As early adopters of internet technology, many network operators in the research and education (R&E) community use IP numbers allocated to them before ARIN (American Registry for Internet Numbers) came into existence. ARIN is one of the five… Read More 28 Feb 2023 Advanced Networking Security Preparing for Resource Public Key Infrastructure Route Origin Validation An increasing number of network providers are implementing Resource Public Key Infrastructure Route Origin Validation (RPKI-ROV) to identify and mitigate false routing information that might arise by accident or attempted route hijacking. This trend includes Internet Service Providers and non-profit organizations like Internet2 that provide connectivity for the research and… Read More 10 Nov 2022 Advanced Networking ARIN Agreement Changes Offer 2 More Reasons to Secure Legacy Network Resources Before 2024 Estimated reading time: 4 minutes The American Registry for Internet Numbers (ARIN) recently released a new version of the Registration Services Agreement (RSA) and announced forthcoming increases to the legacy resource fee structure – offering… Read More 29 Jun 2022 Security Advanced Networking Internet2 Offers New Routing Integrity Assessment Service 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 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… Read More 31 Mar 2022 Security Twitter Thwarts Route Hijacking with Free Service Available to Research and Education Networks 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 17 May 2021 Security Internet2, ARIN Discuss Actions That Could Protect US R&E Networks 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… Read More 16 Apr 2021 Security MANRS Gaining Momentum, New Route Reports Published Estimated reading time: 2 minutes MANRS, the Mutually Agreed Norms for Routing Security global initiative, is gaining momentum across the research and education (R&E) community. Andrew Gallo, Principal IT Architect at The George Washington University, serves on the MANRS Advisory Group, and I… Read More 24 Feb 2021 Advanced Networking IPv6 is the Internet’s Future – and Together with ARIN We’ll Help You Enable IPv6 Estimated reading time: 2 minutes While our community led early IPv6 development, the commercial sector has taken the lead. As early founders of the internet, US research and education institutions hold a disproportionate share of IPv4 addresses, lessening incentives to embrace IPv6. While… Read More 28 Sep 2020 Advanced Networking Security Internet2 Community Completes Network Routing Policy, Publishes Plan Estimated reading time: 5 minutes We are pleased to announce that Internet2 has completed and published its routing policy as of July 29, 2020. The Internet2 community worked together to complete their routing policy records so that 99% of the routes fulfill the… Read More 27 Mar 2020 Advanced Networking Optimizing Your Home Network for Working and Learning Estimated reading time: 4 minutes When students reposition to home locations, traffic patterns change. In most cases, the network traffic from the student to the cloud-based learning management systems and video applications will use commercial networks (i.e., the broadband in their home or… Read More 13 Mar 2020 Advanced Networking Using The Cloud to Surge VPN Capacity Estimated reading time: 2 minutes If your campus has deployed a cloud-based VPN and you are willing to share your experiences with others, we’d like to hear from you! Campus network operators use VPNs to both provide network access control, through user and… Read More 18 Sep 2019 Advanced Networking Google Routing Policy/IRR Updates, Office Hours for Internet2 Community Network Operators Estimated reading time: 2 minutes Google has announced that it will require IRR records documenting the routing policy of all prefixes Google receives from its peer networks as early as October, 2019. Internet2 is providing support for campuses and regionals as they work… Read More Get the news you need delivered to your inbox Sign up for a newsletter to read about the impact our community is making on the future of Higher Ed, Cloud, Research and more. From Advanced Networks news to the latest events, we've got you covered. Email Δ
11 Sep 2024 Advanced Networking Security What the Research & Education Community Learned From Three Impactful Routing Security Incidents in 2024 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
14 Dec 2023 Advanced Networking Security Adapting to the Future of Network Security in Research and Education Estimated reading time: 5 minutes With a Proposed New Standard on the Horizon for Internet Exchange Points, Now Is the Time to Embrace Advanced Routing Security Protections A group of internet exchange point (IXP) operators recently proposed a new standard for routing security… Read More
22 Aug 2023 Advanced Networking Security Goals Turn Into Action as Community Works to Secure Legacy Networks Before Year-End 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
04 Apr 2023 Advanced Networking Security ARIN’s Routing Security Services Play Important Role for the Research and Education Community Estimated reading time: 4 minutes As early adopters of internet technology, many network operators in the research and education (R&E) community use IP numbers allocated to them before ARIN (American Registry for Internet Numbers) came into existence. ARIN is one of the five… Read More
28 Feb 2023 Advanced Networking Security Preparing for Resource Public Key Infrastructure Route Origin Validation An increasing number of network providers are implementing Resource Public Key Infrastructure Route Origin Validation (RPKI-ROV) to identify and mitigate false routing information that might arise by accident or attempted route hijacking. This trend includes Internet Service Providers and non-profit organizations like Internet2 that provide connectivity for the research and… Read More
10 Nov 2022 Advanced Networking ARIN Agreement Changes Offer 2 More Reasons to Secure Legacy Network Resources Before 2024 Estimated reading time: 4 minutes The American Registry for Internet Numbers (ARIN) recently released a new version of the Registration Services Agreement (RSA) and announced forthcoming increases to the legacy resource fee structure – offering… Read More
29 Jun 2022 Security Advanced Networking Internet2 Offers New Routing Integrity Assessment Service 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 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… Read More
31 Mar 2022 Security Twitter Thwarts Route Hijacking with Free Service Available to Research and Education Networks 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
17 May 2021 Security Internet2, ARIN Discuss Actions That Could Protect US R&E Networks 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… Read More
16 Apr 2021 Security MANRS Gaining Momentum, New Route Reports Published Estimated reading time: 2 minutes MANRS, the Mutually Agreed Norms for Routing Security global initiative, is gaining momentum across the research and education (R&E) community. Andrew Gallo, Principal IT Architect at The George Washington University, serves on the MANRS Advisory Group, and I… Read More
24 Feb 2021 Advanced Networking IPv6 is the Internet’s Future – and Together with ARIN We’ll Help You Enable IPv6 Estimated reading time: 2 minutes While our community led early IPv6 development, the commercial sector has taken the lead. As early founders of the internet, US research and education institutions hold a disproportionate share of IPv4 addresses, lessening incentives to embrace IPv6. While… Read More
28 Sep 2020 Advanced Networking Security Internet2 Community Completes Network Routing Policy, Publishes Plan Estimated reading time: 5 minutes We are pleased to announce that Internet2 has completed and published its routing policy as of July 29, 2020. The Internet2 community worked together to complete their routing policy records so that 99% of the routes fulfill the… Read More
27 Mar 2020 Advanced Networking Optimizing Your Home Network for Working and Learning Estimated reading time: 4 minutes When students reposition to home locations, traffic patterns change. In most cases, the network traffic from the student to the cloud-based learning management systems and video applications will use commercial networks (i.e., the broadband in their home or… Read More
13 Mar 2020 Advanced Networking Using The Cloud to Surge VPN Capacity Estimated reading time: 2 minutes If your campus has deployed a cloud-based VPN and you are willing to share your experiences with others, we’d like to hear from you! Campus network operators use VPNs to both provide network access control, through user and… Read More
18 Sep 2019 Advanced Networking Google Routing Policy/IRR Updates, Office Hours for Internet2 Community Network Operators Estimated reading time: 2 minutes Google has announced that it will require IRR records documenting the routing policy of all prefixes Google receives from its peer networks as early as October, 2019. Internet2 is providing support for campuses and regionals as they work… Read More