By addressing vulnerabilities in the Border Gateway Protocol, ONCD is taking on a hard problem that has long-threatened the security of internet traff

Press Release: White House Office of the National Cyber Director Releases Roadmap to Enhance Internet Routing Security

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2024-09-03 22:00:08

By addressing vulnerabilities in the Border Gateway Protocol, ONCD is taking on a hard problem that has long-threatened the security of internet traffic

Today, the White House Office of the National Cyber Director (ONCD) released a Roadmap to Enhancing Internet Routing Security, which aims to address a key security vulnerability associated with the Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) – the protocol that underpins the way information is routed across networks.

By addressing BGP, ONCD is taking on a hard problem that has long threatened the security of internet traffic. Given today’s cyber threat landscape, ONCD continues to underscore that a secure and open internet is critical to the economic prosperity and national security of the United States.

ONCD’s Implementation Plan of the National Cybersecurity Strategy serves as a blueprint for championing security in the digital ecosystem. The roadmap released today advocates for the adoption of Resource Public Key Infrastructure (RPKI) as a mature, ready-to-implement approach to mitigate vulnerabilities in BGP. This includes recommended actions applicable to all network types, i.e., all network service providers and entities that operate enterprise networks or hold their own IP address resources. These recommendations are of particular importance to the networks used by critical infrastructure owners and operators, state and local governments, and any organization dependent on internet access for purposes that the entity considers to be of high value.