Customer Security Resources
Although ARIN has implemented many security measures, we need your help in ensuring these methods keep your data safe. See below for some of the ways you can help protect your resources.
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Multifactor authentication (MFA) is a means of identifying a user through two separate pieces of information or identification. By combining the two proofs of identity that an unauthorized user is unlikely to possess, MFA provides an increased level of security for ARIN Online users. MFA is required on all ARIN Online accounts. »Learn more
An Application Programming Interface (API) key is a secret code that you can use to identify yourself to ARIN when you interact with us. You create an API key in ARIN Online, and then use the key in interactions with ARIN outside of ARIN Online. »Learn more
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Ensure that your account and contact information for your Internet number resources is up to date in ARIN Online. »Learn more
Enable DNS security (DNSSEC) to provide data authentication and data integrity for DNS query resolution using public key cryptography. »Learn more
Routing Security
ARIN encourages members of the Internet community to certify their resources through RPKI. Internet routing is vulnerable to hijacking, and the provisioning/use of certificates is one of first steps toward making routing more secure. »Learn more
Submit your routing data to ARIN’s Internet Routing Registry (IRR) to ensure that the routes to your network are recognized as authenticated. You can also obtain authorized routing information to use in your network routing decisions. »Learn more
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