Security News > 2023 > April > All Dutch govt networks to use RPKI to prevent BGP hijacking
Standardization Forum in the Netherlands, a research and advising organization that serves the public sector on the use open standards, announced that all communication devices managed by the Dutch government must use the RPKI standard by 2024.
RPKI certificates are stored centrally and kept public, allowing network providers from anywhere in the world to validate internet traffic routes.
One example of BGP hijacking is from 2019, when network traffic from Dutch internet service provider KPN was diverted to China Telecom for over two hours.
The adoption of RPKI is already high in the Netherlands, with 77.9% of government websites and 75.1% of email domains already supporting the standard.
The National Institute of Standards and Technology in the U.S. has a live RPKI monitor that provides real-time information about the RPKI ecosystem drawn from various data repositories, including BGP routing information.
RPKI contributes to a safer and better internet, but a 41% adoption rate shows that there is still a long way to improving traffic security across the globe.