Watch your MANRS: Akamai, Amazon, Netflix, Microsoft, Google, and pals join internet routing security effort

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A community effort to improve the internet’s routing security has won the backing of some of the web’s biggest names.
Amazon, Google, Facebook, Microsoft, Akamai, and Netflix, among others, have signed up to the Mutually Agreed Norms for Routing Security (MANRS) group, in their roles as content delivery networks (CDNs) and cloud providers (CPs).
MANRS’s goal is to shore up the internet’s lax security when it comes to routing people’s connections around Earth.
Akamai, Azion, and Cloudflare have also signed up to MANRS, bringing membership up to over 300 organizations and covering a significant chunk of global internet traffic (roughly 50 per cent in fact).
“Being MANRS compliant not only improves our routing security capabilities, but has the potential to help other networks to improve theirs,” said Akamai’s VP of network technology Christian Kaufmann.
Cloudflare CTO John Graham-Cumming said: “Route leaks have a cascading negative impact on businesses, and coordinated action is needed by the Internet infrastructure community to improve the security, resilience, and reliability of networks.”
Netflix Open Connect’s VP Gina Haspilaire said: “A secure routing framework is essential to maintaining the ongoing health and stability of the global Internet, and MANRS provides the resources to develop, foster, and promote this framework.”
Those companies interconnect with thousands of other networks, and so the hope is that signing up these giants to MANRS will lead to concrete action among the roughly 60,000 network operators that make up the global internet – and that routing security will be taken more seriously.
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“We hope this will build peer pressure inside the community,” he noted, pointing to a decrease in incidents in each of the three years that MANRS has been running and expanding

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