
Beyond Origin Validation: Four Classes of Routing Attack Nobody Is Validating
Antonio Prado
Based in ITALY
Antonio Prado holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science, with a research focus on Internet Routing Security. His doctoral work focused on tools and methodologies for the automated verification of BGP configurations. He is co-author of BGP from Theory to Practice, a book aimed at both technical and academic audiences, and … More
• 8 min read
RPKI has made real progress against prefix hijacking. But when you map every known class of BGP attack against the defences that exist, four of them turn out to sit entirely outside cryptographic validation: handled with local filters, static thresholds and reactive response.








