IPv6 is central to safeguarding the expansion of the internet, but the global deployment of the protocol raises its own security challenges, says Axel Pawlik. The global adoption of IPv6 is one of the ...

Security by obscurity is real. Sucuri's CTO found that while IPv4 servers can get compromised in minutes, IPv6 servers are safe from attack because no one is looking for them Security company Sucuri ...

After years of work in mitigating threats to the current version of networking protocols (Internet Protocol version 4- IPv4), network defenders can implement defense in depth by leveraging an array of ...

Predictions about when the world will end are about as consistent as the predictions about when IPv4 internet addresses will finally run out, but some IT security professionals say that is really the ...

IPv6 is starting to show up in around the Internet. Adoption is slow, but with the magic number of 4 billion- plus IPv4 addresses about to be reached, IPv6 will see a much faster pace of adoption as ...

The IPv6 protocol affects the security of your network even if you haven't deployed it internally. Here are the most important points every security team needs to understand about the protocol. If you ...

Knowingly or not, enterprises employ IPv6 for many of their internet connections, and that means CASBs should support the protocol, too, in order to enforce policies on all customer traffic. Here's ...

While I speak about IPv6 security, I often mention the little known fact that IPv6 is probably already in every large network. How can it be? Simply: because all modern OS (Vista, Windows 7, Mac OS/X, ...

Typically, we think of network IP addresses as a technical topic — not something a security director or security operations manager would be too concerned about. Not so fast…there are several reasons ...

IPv6 presents a security paradox. The capabilities IPv6 provides will enhance online security - but the shift to the new Internet address scheme may also present risks if not properly managed.

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) warns that moving from IPv4 to IPv6 is a process fraught with peril, which may explain why government agencies are so far behind their own ...

Thomas Edison, in 1882, opened a power station on Pearl Street in New York city to supply the densely populated Manhattan island with DC power [1]. DC was the logical power distribution standard at ...