Alexander Slagg is a freelance writer specializing in technology and education. He is an ongoing contributor to the CDW family of magazines. While BGP’s importance may be obscured among the numerous ...

When the Internet goes down, rendering everything inaccessible from mission-critical business services to mental stability-critical meme generators, is it because of an accident or malicious hackers?

Lurking at the core of all modern internet traffic is a protocol that few properly understand and even fewer know how to actually secure. Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) is the core routing protocol ...