The USA is the leading nation in cybersecurity, researchers from US industry and academia are among the key collaboration partners of ATHENE. Michael Waidner and Haya Shulman provided an update on the research done at ATHENE, in particular on their recent results on severe vulnerabilities in the core Internet protocols and how they could be mitigated.

The US FCC recently launched an inquiry into security issues surrounding the BGP core Internet protocol, stressing the critical importance of securing the core Internet infrastructures.