The reliability and security of the internet is a big concern for us! Belgium is only a small country, having a trustworthy connection to other national and international operators should be of key strategic importance for everyone. We hope with doing our small part that we can help the internet forward.
BelgiumIX Founder
Internet has vastly grown in size over the last two decades. Although the tools nowdays exist, many providers have not taken the correct steps in order to address critical security issues. MANRS is the right way for network and cloud providers to further engage with internet security and make the internet safer for everyone.
Hostmein IKE is a leading Greek cloud and data center provider providing mission critical services. Security for Hostmein is a critical aspect. MANRS actively helped us implement a better security policy for our network by setting the correct guidelines.
Alexander Stamatis CTO, Hostmein IKE
The Internet is humanity’s greatest collective work! For Azion that is part of this ecosystem, of this collective work and ensuring that Internet traffic is routed reliably worldwide is an essential element for a reliable global Internet. Based on common network operating practices currently in effect, the global Internet routing system does not have sufficient security controls to prevent the injection of false routing information. The lack of these controls creates a significant vulnerability, which can result in thousands of traffic incidents. The MANRS initiative, promoted by the Internet Society, overcomes this collective problem by establishing a security baseline with concrete actions for network operators. The actions are supported by a growing community of more than 200 networks worldwide. Currently, there are more than 7,000 autonomous systems in Brazil, country of Azion’s origin, with only 33 of these autonomous systems participating in MANRS. The idea is to expand the number of companies involved so that, together, they can work to make the Internet a safe environment. This is Azion’s main objective in participating in MANRS.
Rogerio Mariano Network Planning Director, AZION
Being MANRS compliant not only improves our routing security capabilities, but has the potential to help other networks to improve theirs and is an opportunity for Akamai to make a significant contribution to the improvement of global routing security.
Christian Kaufmann Vice President Network Technology, Akamai Technologies
I believe that the actions taken by the MANRS initiative are extremely important to keep the core of the Internet functioning in a secure and resilient way.
Luiz Gustavo Barros Director of IT - State University of Ponta Grossa
… because a secure routing platform is something we cannot do without.
Sanjeev Gupta CTO, DCS1 Pte Ltd
The MANRS IXP Initiative brings together in one place, in an easy to access form, all of the relevant information on routing security best practice for our members. We incorporate the MANRS material into our training courses and guidance, to provide our members with a consistent approach to routing security and BGP policy best practice.
Robert Lister Senior Network Engineer, LONAP
MANRS has been crucial in raising awareness about routing security: MINAP implemented from day one strict L2 and routing security and we are happy to formally join the IXP program to show our support.
Marco d'Itri MINAP NOC staff
We, at NIX.CZ, believe internet security is very important. For this reason we do our best to secure internet exchange in Prague with best in class security policies. Our aim is to deliver stable, reliable and secure platform for data exchange.
Marian Rychtecký CTO, NIX.CZ, z.s.p.o.
