ARTEMIS: Making BGP Operations Suck Less [Cross-Connect]

BGP is one of the most versatile routing protocols out there, but let’s be honest—It kinda sucks when it comes to… Well, a lot of things. Specifically, there are a lot of issues with BGP’s security (or lack thereof). BGP comes from a time when The Internet was much smaller and everyone knew everyone. Now that The Internet has exploded in growth, hijacks, both malicious and inadvertent, have required countless hours of pain-staking manual intervention and deep knowledge of BGP and the global routing table to diagnose—keeping your routes secure in this landscape almost seems like a Sisyphean task.

Cue ARTEMIS. ARTEMIS (Automatic and Real-Time dEtection and MItigation System) does the hard work of detecting hijacks for you and it can even step in and attempt to mitigate them on your behalf. Okay, that sounds great, but how much does it cost? Nothing! ARTEMIS is free, open source, and even simple to install and use. Check out this episode of the Modulate Demodulate podcast as the lead developer for ARTEMIS and Co-founder/CTO of Code BGP, Vasileios Kotronis joins Chris C. and Nick Buraglio to talk about the inner-workings of ARTEMIS.

Check it out here, and let me know what you think!