The rise of IPv6 could give you some severe security headaches — even if you have no current plans to implement the new networking protocol.
That was the stark warning issued by Eric Vyncke, a security expert from Cisco, talking at the RSA Conference Europe in London this month. Here are seven ways IPv6 can make your organization less secure.
1. Effective rate limiting is hard to achieve
2. Reputation-based protection does not (yet) exist.
3. Logging systems may not work properly.
4. IPv6 may run by default.
5. SIEM systems may not work properly.
6. Simple log analysis using grep won’t work.
7. Implications of service provider NAT.