When the Internet goes down, rendering everything inaccessible from mission-critical business services to mental stability-critical meme generators, is it because of an accident or malicious hackers?

Alexander Slagg is a freelance writer specializing in technology and education. He is an ongoing contributor to the CDW family of magazines. While BGP’s importance may be obscured among the numerous ...

The Internet wasn’t built with security in mind; it was built with communication in mind. In the same way Tina Turner wailed that love is nothing but “a secondhand emotion,” security is an Internet ...

A core internet routing protocol is at the center of a proposed FCC investigation amid potential threats to the internet at large from state actors like Russia. The FCC is launching an inquiry into ...

This spring, services from heavy hitters like Google and Facebook seemed glitchy or inaccessible for people worldwide for more than an hour. But it wasn't a hack, or even a glitch at any one ...

Comcast, one of America's largest broadband providers, has now deployed RPKI on its network to defend against BGP route hijacks and leaks. BGP route hijacks is a networking problem that occurs when a ...

As more and more networks are implementing Resource Public Key Infrastructure (RPKI) validation and signing of their BGP routes—to protect themselves against route hijacks and leaks, what should ...

The US government has set out measures to improve the security for a key part of the internet. The Office of the National Cyber Director (ONCD) has released a roadmap to improve internet routing ...

What if the internet you rely on every day wasn’t as seamless as it seems? What if hidden inefficiencies were quietly disrupting traffic, slowing connections, and wasting resources? In this guide, ...