Interested in IPv6 security? Back in October 2012, the Packet Pushers podcast had a great show on the topic called “Healthy Paranoia Show 4:IPv6 Security Smackdown!” Guests included many of the people we’ve routinely interacted with about IPv6 at events and on mailing lists: Fernando Gont, security researcher Eric Vyncke, Cisco Distinguished Consulting Engineer and Read more…

Day 4 of the 86th meeting of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF)  hits all of our Deploy360 topics – IPv6, DNSSEC and Routing Resiliency/Security. General information about participating remotely can be found on the Remote Participation page as well as the IETF86 agenda – specific info for the groups we are following is included below. Read more…

As we mentioned previously, the handlers at the SANS Institute’s “Internet Storm Center (ISC)” have indicated that March will be their “IPv6 Focus Month”. To that end, they’ve started off the month with a list of IPv6 resources they have previously published at the ISC and their list does include some great content (some of which Read more…

Got an IPv6 security problem you’d like to share? A solution to an IPv6 security problem that you want to tell others about? If so, the team behind the Internet Storm Center (ISC) would love to share your stories as part of their IPv6 Focus Month they are planning for March 2013.  Johannes Ullrich of the Read more…

What should the appropriate IPv6 security policy be for residential customers?  How can they get the benefits of IPv6 while still ensuring that their home networks are secure?  These are the questions pursued in a new Internet-Draft available today: http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-v6ops-vyncke-balanced-ipv6-security The abstract and introduction explain quite well how this applies to “customer premise equipment (CPE)”: Read more…

Fernando Gont of SI6 Networks has been a VERY busy man lately!  He and his colleagues and co-authors have recently updated a whole host of Internet-Drafts related to IPv6 security.  In a post to the full-disclosure mailing list, Fernando provided his list that includes: Network Reconnaissance in IPv6 Networks Security Implications of IPv6 on IPv4 Read more…

Looking to understand how to securely deploy IPv6? Want a document you can provide to your security team or others concerned about IPv6? If so, we’ve recently added to our list of resources an excellent “Special Publication” from the U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST): Guidelines for the Secure Deployment of IPv6 Like most Read more…

What are the security issues of IPv6? With World IPv6 Launch now underway, what should security practitioners care about? The Australian edition of SC Magazine ran a piece last Friday called “IPv6 co-founder talks protocol security” where Robert Hinden lays out some of the main issues security professionals need to be concerned about, including: Unauthorized Read more…

The United States National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) created an excellent “Special Publication” related to IPv6 security called: Guidelines for the Secure Deployment of IPv6 Like most of NIST’s special publications, including their excellent guide to DNSSEC, the document begins with a lengthy tutorial about IPv6 and how it compares to IPv4.   The Read more…

Want to understand the security aspects of IPv6?  In about 8 hours, at 4:00pm US Eastern on June 20, 2012, security researcher Joe Klein will be giving a presentation on “IPv6 – Security Threat or Stronger Defenses?” The webinar/webcast/whatever-you-want-to-call-it is part of a series of information security seminars scheduled through BrightTALK.  We have no affiliation Read more…