IPv6 Transition Poses New Security Threats

Next-generation IP protocol comes with more security as well as some potential flaws of its own
By Kelly Jackson Higgins
DarkReading

Aardig artikel over IPv6, alhoewel de titel anders doet vermoeden. Een aantal alinea's spraken mij persoonlijk erg aan:

Cricket Liu, vice president of architecture for Infoblox, says the biggest threat will be organizations misconfiguring their IPv6 systems. "Until you understand it, you're not going to configure it right. So there are going to be a lot of mistakes, and [that will be] the source of a lot of vulnerabilities in the configurations."

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He says any security glitches with IPv6 aren't about the technology itself, but in how an organization uses the technology. "It depends on how you implement the technology. If organizations carefully plan and consider how to put things on the network with IPv6, they will benefit" from it, he says. That means mapping out what security controls should be in place for both IPv4 and IPv6 in the transition, he says.


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