FORT Monitoring: Real-Time Mapping of Routing Incidents in the LAC Region
May 19, 2020
An analysis of the data obtained during the past month by FORT Monitoring shows that approximately 2% of the IPv4 prefixes announced in Latin America and the Caribbean might represent potential route hijacks, that anomalies have been detected in 11% of these prefixes, and that an additional 11.5% of these prefixes are unprotected. In the case of IPv6, 2% of the prefixes represent route hijacks, 3.6% have some type of anomaly, and 15.5% are un protected.
According to FORT Monitoring, a project that shows real-time routing security status data for the region and its impact on end users, 76.6% of IPv4 prefixes and 78.9% of IPv6 prefixes originate in a trusted and/or authoritative source.
FORT Monitoring has been developed and designed to provide information to technical staff, decision makers and activists working in the region. It is part of FORT, a project led by LACNIC and NIC Mexico that seeks to increase Internet routing system security through resource certification. As part of the FORT project, LACNIC and NIC Mexico have developed an RPKI validator and a diagnostic report which analyzes routing incidents and route hijacks that have occurred in the LAC region over the past three years.
FORT Monitoring. The FORT Monitoring tool includes a section containing basic information for decision makers, activists and a non-technical audience. FORT Monitoring also offers users with a technical profile more advanced tools that allow them to access detailed information by prefix and autonomous system. It also includes monthly reports with the most relevant information, to which users can subscribe.
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The goal of FORT Monitoring is to provide real-time information on routing security in the region, noted Carolina Caeiro, Development Project Coordinator at LACNIC.
Considered to be one of the pillars of the Internet, the global routing system is under constant pressure and vulnerable to attack. Whether deliberate or accidental, a failure in this system may affect the ability of users and organizations to interconnect.
For years, LACNIC has been working together with other organizations on the deployment of technologies to protect the routing system.
