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TwoyearsofgoodMANRSImprovingGlobalRoutingSecurityandResilience

January2017

Isthereaproblem?

• Internetroutinginfrastructureisvulnerable• Trafficcanbehijacked,blackholedordetoured• Trafficcanbespoofed• Fat-fingersandmaliciousattacks

• BGPisbasedontrust• Nobuilt-invalidationofthelegitimacyof updates

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Aretheresolutions?

• Yes!• PrefixandAS-PATHfiltering,RPKI,IRR,…• BGPSECunderdevelopmentattheIETF• Whois,RoutingRegistriesandPeeringdatabases

• But…• Lackofdeployment• Lackofreliabledata

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Itisasocio-economicproblem– atragedyofthecommons• Fromtheroutingperspectivesecuringone’sownnetworkdoesnotmakeitmoresecure.Thenetworksecurityisinsomeoneelse’shands• Themorehands– thebetterthesecurity

• Isthereaclear,visibleandindustrysupportedlinebetweengoodandbad?• Aculturalnorm

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Aclearlyarticulatedbaseline–aminimumrequirement(MCOP)

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Visiblesupportwithcommitment

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MutuallyAgreedNormsforRoutingSecurity(MANRS)

MANRSdefinesfourconcreteactionsthatnetworkoperatorsshouldimplement

• Technology-neutralbaselineforglobaladoption

MANRSbuildsavisiblecommunityofsecurity-mindedoperators

• Promotescultureofcollaborativeresponsibility

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GoodMANRS

• Filtering – Preventpropagationofincorrectroutinginformation• Ownannouncementsandthecustomercone

• Anti-spoofing – PreventtrafficwithspoofedsourceIPaddresses• Single-homedstubcustomersandowninfra

• Coordination – Facilitateglobaloperationalcommunicationandcoordinationbetweennetworkoperators• Up-to-dateandresponsivepubliccontacts

• Global Validation – Facilitatevalidationofroutinginformationonaglobalscale• Publishyourdata,sootherscanvalidate

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MANRSisnot(only)adocument– itisacommitment• Thememberssupport thePrinciplesandimplement themajorityoftheActionsintheirnetworks.

• A memberbecomesaParticipantofMANRS,helpingtomaintain and improve thedocumentandtopromote MANRSobjectives

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Agrowinglistofparticipants

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•Howtobridgethisgap?

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Leveragingmarketforcesandpeerpressure• Developingabetter“businesscase”forMANRS

• MANRSvaluepropositionforyourcustomersandyourownnetwork

• Creatingatrustedcommunity

• Agroupwithasimilarattitudetowardssecurity

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IncreasinggravitybymakingMANRSaplatformforrelatedactivities• Developingbetterguidance

• MANRSBestCurrentOperationalPractices(BCOP)document:

http://www.routingmanifesto.org/bcop/

• Training/certificationprogramme

• BasedonBCOPdocumentandanonlinemodule

• Bringingnewtypesofmembersonboard

• IXPs

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MANRStrainingandcertification

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• Routingsecurityishard• TheMANRSBCOPwasenvisagedasasimple instructionset• Insteadwehavea50-pagedocumentthatassumes certainlevelofexpertise• Howcanwemakeitmoreaccessible?

• Asetofonlinetrainingmodules• BasedontheMANRSBCOP• Walksastudentthroughthetutorialwithatestattheend• Workingwithandlookingforpartnersthatareinterestedinintegratingitintheircurricula

• Ahands-onlabtoachieveMANRScertification• CompletinganonlinemoduleasafirststepinMANRScertification• Lookingforpartners

MANRSIXPPartnershipProgramme

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• ThereissynergybetweenMANRSandIXPsinthisarea• IXPsformacommunitywithacommonoperationalobjective• MANRSisareferencepointwithaglobalpresence– usefulforbuildinga“safeneighborhood”

• HowcanIXPscontribute?• Technicalmeasures:RouteServerwithvalidation,alertingonunwantedtraffic,providingdebuggingandmonitoringtools

• Socialmeasures:MANRSambassadorrole,localauditaspartoftheon-boardingprocess• Adevelopmentteamisworkingonasetofusefulactions

Howtosignup

• Gotohttps://www.manrs.org/signup/• Providerequestedinformation

• PleaseprovideasmuchdetailonhowActionsareimplementedaspossible

• Wemayaskquestionsandaskyoutorunafewtests• Routing“backgroundcheck”

• Spoofer https://www.caida.org/projects/spoofer/

• Youranswerto“Whydidyoudecidetojoin?”maybedisplayedinthetestimonials

• Downloadthelogoanduseit

• BecomeanactiveMANRSparticipant

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Pleasejoinustomakeroutingmoresecure

https://www.manrs.org/signup

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