IPv6 Implementation Likely To Bump On Security Issues

While IPv6 is bound to bring more power to IP networks, its deployment during the next decade or so might face some important security challenges. Eric Vyncke, in his book, IPv6 Security, exposes the reasons why the new protocol has a lot of improvements to make.

Several high-profile players in the industry have published many of the different holes existing in the new protocol, and if there is one group of people that have been very attentive to that, it is hackers. That gives them a head start over deployers. Moreover, when IPv6 will be deployed over networks that used to run IPv4, these networks may run short of the security requirements for the new protocol, rendering them more vulnerable. This orients us to the kind of additional preparation we need to have before deploying IPv6. Read more on the book's excerpt here, where you also get to download its first chapter.