Oracle launches IXP FilterCheck, a free tool to promote secure internet routing

guest · Oct 24, 2019

Oracle launches IXP FilterCheck, a free tool to promote secure internet routing
In partnership with the Internet Society, Oracle will make the route analysis tool freely available to internet exchange points (IXPs)
October 23, 2019
https://www.zdnet.com/article/oracl...free-tool-to-promote-secure-internet-routing/

Oracle on Wednesday announced it's launching a new, free tool in partnership with the Internet Society that aims to make the internet's routing system more secure. Called IXP FilterCheck, the tool can help track and filter malicious traffic at internet exchange points (IXPs).
The tool will be available via the Internet Society's MANRS (Mutually Agreed Norms for Routing Security) initiative.

IXPs are a key part of the internet -- [...] these key juncture points also leave the internet vulnerable to routing mistakes or malicious re-routing, which occur due to abuse of the Border Gateway Protocol (BGP).

IXP FilterCheck can help address this problem by analyzing route filtering at IXPs. The tool continuously analyzes route server behavior across the internet to help IXPs identify areas where they should improve their route filtering, as well as steps they can take to reach compliance with the MANRS IXP requirements.
During its development, IXP FilterCheck identified major filtering misconfigurations at three IXPs, Oracle says, including a month-long filter outage at one of the world's largest IXPs.
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