Enterprise security teams invest heavily in protecting their applications, identities, cloud environments, and internal infrastructure. But there is one critical dependency most organizations still do not actively manage: the Internet itself.
Modern enterprises depend on external networks for nearly every critical business function — connecting employees, customers, cloud platforms, SaaS applications, supply chains, and digital services. When Internet routing fails because of network misconfigurations or insufficient protection against malicious activity, organizations can experience service disruption, degraded performance, operational outages, and downstream business risk — even when their own systems remain fully secure.
These incidents affect financial institutions, manufacturers, healthcare providers, retailers, critical infrastructure operators, and global enterprises every year. Yet most organizations still do not evaluate routing security when selecting or overseeing cloud, CDN, and connectivity providers.
As enterprise operations become increasingly cloud-dependent and digitally distributed, routing security is emerging as a critical resilience and third-party risk issue — not just a networking issue.
Routing security is part of supply chain risk. But today, there is no clear, enterprise-defined standard to address it. To bridge this gap, MANRS, an industry-led routing security initiative supported by the Global Cyber Alliance, has launched a working group that brings together enterprises and Internet infrastructure providers to define what “good” looks like — in a way that is practical, auditable, and usable in procurement. The questions we’re addressing include:
- Why routing security belongs within enterprise resilience and supply chain risk discussions
- How routing incidents can impact business continuity, customer trust, and revenue
- Where routing risk intersects with cloud, SD-WAN, CDN, and provider strategy
- What questions enterprises should begin asking providers and vendors
- How enterprise buyers can help strengthen the security and resilience of the Internet ecosystem
On 11 May 2026, eco’s topDNS Initiative, together with the Global Cyber Alliance and MANRS, hosted the 12th topDNS Best Practice webinar, focusing on Internet routing security as a critical but often overlooked enterprise supply chain risk.
As enterprises increasingly rely on the Internet as critical infrastructure, routing security can no longer be treated as someone else’s problem.
Will you help define these practices – or adapt to them later? Contact us if you’d like to join the MANRS+ Working Group. The group meets periodically and has its own email list. Membership in this MANRS+ Working Group is open to everyone. MANRS participation is not required.
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