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Learn about critical routing security challenges facing Research and Education (R&E) networks in this conference talk that examines vulnerabilities in academic network infrastructure. Discover how R&E networks' practice of prioritizing specialized research routes over commercial internet paths creates security risks, including route leaks that can inadvertently transmit sensitive scientific traffic through unintended international routes. Explore the unique operational constraints facing academic networks, including limited budgets and staffing that prevent implementation of decade-old routing security best practices. Understand a proposed three-part solution involving measurement and analysis capabilities to detect route leaks, development of an operational dashboard for community stakeholders, and active community engagement to promote security adoption. Examine how route misconfigurations, whether accidental or malicious, threaten the availability and integrity of critical R&E network services that enable data-intensive collaborative research across scientific disciplines. Gain insights into establishing a foundational routing security auditing framework coordinated by Internet2 to protect the U.S. science ecosystem's networking infrastructure.
