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This book treats BGP security as a serious systems-engineering discipline rather than an introductory networking tutorial. It explains not only what BGP security technologies do but why they exist, how they work internally, how their components interact, how to design secure routing architectures around them, and how to implement and operate them reliably at production scale. The reader will learn the BGP threat landscape from first principles, the full RPKI stack including ROV and ASPA, prefix and AS-path filtering, route dampening, blackholing, monitoring and anomaly detection, incident response, and the operational lifecycle of routing security at Internet scale. The material is organized as a progressive reference: from foundational concepts and threat modeling through security architecture, individual technologies, end-to-end implementation with real router platforms and open-source daemons, automation and observability, and finally production hardening. Each chapter is built on primary sources, RFCs, operator experience, and real incidents, with working code examples in Go, Python, and Rust, complete configuration examples across FRRouting, BIRD, GoBGP, Cisco IOS-XR, Juniper Junos, and other widely deployed platforms, and realistic case studies of actual routing incidents.

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