{"id":53021,"date":"2023-08-01T16:04:00","date_gmt":"2023-08-01T16:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.networkworld.com\/article\/3703988\/cisco-buys-internet-bgp-monitoring-firm-codebgp.html#tk.rss_security"},"modified":"2023-08-01T16:04:00","modified_gmt":"2023-08-01T16:04:00","slug":"cisco-buys-internet-bgp-monitoring-firm-codebgp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.threatshub.org\/blog\/cisco-buys-internet-bgp-monitoring-firm-codebgp\/","title":{"rendered":"Cisco buys Internet BGP monitoring firm CodeBGP"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Aiming to bolster its assessment of Internet traffic health Cisco said it would buy  startup Border Gateway Protocol monitoring firm Code BGP for an undisclosed amount.<\/p>\n

Privately held Code BGP will slide into Cisco\u2019s ThousandEyes network intelligence product portfolio and bring a cloud-based platform that among other features,  maintains an inventory of IP address prefixes, peerings and outbound policies of an organization via configured sources, like BGP feeds. BGP tells Internet traffic what route to take, and the BGP best-path selection algorithm determines the optimal routes to use for traffic forwarding.<\/p>\n

Then, the system lets customers see and interact with this inventory in real-time through an open API and bring real-time detection of BGP hijacking, route leaks, and other BGP issues according to the company.  Adding such capabilities will let ThousandEyes further expand its BGP monitoring and incident analysis capabilities to maintain health of the Internet as well as key applications and services, according to Joe Vaccaro vice president of products for Cisco\u2019s ThousandEyes in a blog<\/a> about the acquisition. <\/p>\n

Cisco bought ThousandEyes in 2020 and has implemented the company\u2019s cloud-based Internet Insights software package across its product portfolio.  Most recently Cisco said ThousandEyes technology would be a key part of its Full Stack Observability<\/a> platform which is designed to collect and correlate data from application, networking, infrastructure, security, and cloud domains to provide a clear view of what\u2019s going on across the enterprise and make it easier for enterprises to spot anomalies, preempt and address performance problems, and improve threat mitigation.<\/p>\n

\u201cBGP is an essential technology that enables the Internet to function,\u201d Vaccaro wrote.   \u201cHowever, the complex nature of BGP makes detecting and troubleshooting incidents difficult\u2014particularly at the scale at which they occur,\u201d Vaccaro stated. <\/p>\n

This year alone, more than 6,000 incidents of BGP hijacks, route leaks, and other issues occurred across the many thousands of networks that make up the Internet, Vaccaro stated. <\/p>\n