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 ...

BGP is how the autonomous networks that make up the internet share routing information to find the best route for IP traffic. CISA describes BGP as 'the most important part of the internet you’ve ...

A CenturyLink BGP routing mistake has led to a ripple effect across the Internet that led to outages for numerous Internet-connected services such as Cloudflare, Amazon, Garmin, Steam, Discord, ...

A Dangerous Network: The Border Gateway Protocol has been the primary routing technology for the internet for at least three decades. Like other fundamental internet protocols developed in the 1980s, ...

Lurking at the core of all modern internet traffic is a protocol that few properly understand and even fewer know how to actually secure. Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) is the core routing protocol ...

In a weeks-long stretch in 2014, hackers stole thousands of dollars a day in cryptocurrency from owners. In 2017, internet outages cropped up around the United States for hours. Last year, Google ...

The Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) forms the backbone of Internet routing by facilitating the exchange of network reachability information among Autonomous Systems (AS). As such, BGP is critical for ...

Over 50% of IP addresses owned and used by federal agencies will have enhanced data routing security measures in place by the end of the year to help prevent hackers from hijacking digital pathways ...

Routing protocols play a critical role in the functioning of the Internet and the services built upon them. However, many of these protocols were developed without security concerns in mind. For ...