Authors:
Alex Ulmer
1
;
Jörn Kohlhammer
1
and
Haya Shulman
2
Affiliations:
1
Fraunhofer Institute for Computer Graphics Research IGD Darmstadt, Germany
;
2
Fraunhofer Institute for Secure Information Technology SIT Darmstadt, Germany
Keyword(s):
Interdomain Routing, Border Gateway Protocol, BGP, Problem Characterization, Visual Analysis, Log Data, Roadmap.
Related
Ontology
Subjects/Areas/Topics:
Abstract Data Visualization
;
Computer Vision, Visualization and Computer Graphics
;
Internet, Web and Security Visualization
;
Visual Analytical Reasoning
;
Visual Data Analysis and Knowledge Discovery
Abstract:
Interdomain routing with Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) plays a critical role in the Internet, determining
paths that packets must traverse from a source to a destination. Due to its importance BGP also has a long
history of prefix hijack attacks, whereby attackers cause the traffic to take incorrect routes, enabling traffic
hijack, monitoring and modification by the attackers. Proposals for securing the protocol are adopted slowly
or erroneous. Our goal is to create a novel visual analytics approach that facilitates easy and timely detection
of misconfigurations and vulnerabilities both in BGP and in the secure proposals for BGP. This work initiates
the analysis of the problem, the target users and state of the art approaches. We provide a comprehensive
overview of the BGP threats and describe incidents that happened over the past years. The paper introduces
two new user groups beside the network administrators, which should also be addressed in future approaches.
It also contributes
a survey about visual analysis of interdomain routing with BGP and secure proposals for
BGP. The visualization approaches are rated and we derive seven key challenges that arise when following our
roadmap for an enhanced visual analysis of interdomain routing.
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