March 16, 2026 by Cogent Solutions Engineering A key aspect of internet security for ISPs and their customers deals with establishing systems that prevent the hijacking of BGP prefixes. At a high level, ISPs address this problem by verifying that their customers only announce prefixes they have been allocated by a Regional Internet Registry (RIR), are currently leasing, or that have been allocated to their end users. Read on for more
The Necessity of RPKI
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February 18, 2026
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