CDNs and Cloud Providers Join Initiative to Improve Security of Internet's Routing System
Failure in internet routing security leads to major outages, stolen data, hijacking, lost revenue and more, with more than 12,000 routing outages in 2018 alone. The Mutually Agreed Norms for Routing Security (MANRS) seeks to solve this.
Supported by the Internet Society, the MANRS program is being expanded to include content delivery networks (CDNs) and cloud providers. The reason is simple -- the more network operators that adhere to MANRS, the more secure is the internet. The cascading nature of internet routing means not only that major network players like Cloudflare, Akamai, Facebook and Netflix (who have joined with the new expansion) are committed to secure routing, they are also committed to encouraging adoption by all of the many thousands of networks that peer with them.
There are three categories of network operators within the MANRS program: networks (almost 300 members); IXPs (48 members); and now CDNs and cloud providers. While each category has a slightly different set of commitments, the purpose in each case is the same: to prevent the thousands of small and largely media-unnoticed outages and the few major catastrophes that occur all the time.
Major incidents include the infamous 2008 YouTube hijack by Pakistan Telecom (PT). Following a YouTube censorship instruction from the government, PT effectively claimed ownership of YouTube traffic. It told its own provider this, which cascaded the instruction around the world until PT did in fact own all YouTube traffic and YouTube was effectively off-line everywhere.
In 2010, a routing prefix error diverted all traffic for domains including dell.com, cnn.com and amazon.de via China Telecom. IP prefixes in routing (also known as 'more-specifics') can ..
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