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 ...

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 ...

The FCC will vote next month on whether to adopt the proposal, which would require the nine largest broadband providers to submit their plans confidentially to the agency and file public quarterly ...

Get the latest federal technology news delivered to your inbox. The Federal Communications Commission is taking another step into the world of cybersecurity, teeing up a rule aimed at bolstering the ...

Cisco announced it has acquired Code BGP, a team of renowned experts who will enable Cisco ThousandEyes to expand its BGP monitoring capabilities. BGP is an essential technology that enables the ...

Cisco has patched a denial of service (DoS) vulnerability that lets attackers crash the Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) process on IOS XR routers with a single BGP update message. IOS XR runs on the ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...