White House Addresses BGP Vulnerabilities in New Internet Routing Security Roadmap

The White House on Tuesday outlined a plan for addressing internet routing security issues, particularly vulnerabilities associated with the Border Gateway Protocol (BGP).

BGP is the protocol used for exchanging routing information between autonomous systems (AS) on the internet. However, this critical component of the web was not created with security in mind and several potentially important vulnerabilities have come to light in the past years. They can enable threat actors to divert internet traffic, allowing them to cause disruption to critical infrastructure, obtain sensitive information, or conduct espionage.

And the risks associated with BGP are not only theoretical. In the real world, BGP issues have caused disruptions and threat actors have been known to abuse BGP, including in profit-driven campaigns.

The US government wants to help prevent such incidents and the White House Office of the National Cyber Director (ONCD) has now released a roadmap to enhance internet routing ...