I’m pleased to announce Cyclops, a tool for real-time routing anomaly detection and alerting for service providers and enterprise networks. Cyclops uses real time data from thousands of vantage points of RouteViews, RIPE-RIS, Abilene, Packet Clearing House and University of Colorado Bgpmon, making it the widest and fastest free tool to assess how the rest of the world is reaching your network. Cyclops has been developed over the last half-year as part of the PhD work of UCLA students that have a track record of building monitoring tools. In fact, one of these students is first author of the very first paper on prefix hijack notification, PHAS published in USENIX Security 2006.

Cyclops features include:
- real-time alerting of prefix hijacks and misconfigured BGP announcements
- alerting of next-hop changes, AS in the middle (transit) and new prefixes
- alerting of new AS neighbor (false link announcement/leakages)
- AS connectivity assessment
- Prefix origin assessment
- Anomaly listings (transient prefix, anomalous depeerings, bogus ASNs, bogon prefixes, long/short prefixes)

To register for Cyclops please visit:
http://cyclops.cs.ucla.edu/?l=reg

To start configuring your network go to:
http://cyclops.cs.ucla.edu/?v=ma&tab=1
(need to be logged in)

You need to tell cyclops what are your prefixes, your ASNes and your neighbor ASNs. Then let Cyclops do its magic.

Please do not hesitate to contact cyclops@cs.ucla.edu in case you have questions/comments/bug reports.

During Cyclops development there were constant interactions with network operators and the Nanog community. We believe we have now a solid base to push the tool to the next level and we are currently looking for industry partners that might be interested in running Cyclops inside their networks.

Thanks for being one of the first Cycloper!

In name of the Cyclops team,

–Ricardo V Oliveira