In early 2019, as Technology Co-Chair of the Federal IPv6 Task Force, I participated in intensive policy discussions with federal cybersecurity leadership about a critical national security imperative ...

The U.S. government wants civilian and defense agencies to adapt their networks by mid-2008 to support IPv6-based traffic, but the lack of security products to support this transition is causing ...

Countries worldwide are implementing IPv6, yet security and funding concerns have slowed the transition’s pace in the U.S. government. Many information technology community leaders are concerned about ...

With only 10% of reserved IPv4 blocks remaining, the time to migrate to IPv6 will soon be upon us, yet the majority of stakeholders have yet to grasp the true security implications of this next ...

While the vast majority of networks today are based on the IPv4 protocol, the U.S. government is mandating that defense and civilian agencies are ready to accept IPv6-based traffic as well by June ...

The revelation that IPv6 is quietly waiting to be exploited comes as a shock to many customers—but existing solutions are able to remediate the risk. For example, Windows 7’s built-in firewall can ...

Employees working on Tobyhanna Army Depot's cybersecurity mission on April 26, 2019. (Photo by Thomas Robbins/Tobyhanna Army Depot) The National Security Agency (NSA) published guidance today to help ...

Agencies must answer 11 new questions before submitting their fiscal 2009 IT budgets requests. The Office of Management and Budget updated Circular A-11 budget guidance July 2 and added 11 new ...

Experts are reporting a rise in the number of attacks that take advantage of known vulnerabilities of IPv6, a next-generation addressing scheme that is being adopted across the Internet. IPv6 replaces ...

IPv6 address autoconfiguration, particularly through Stateless Address Autoconfiguration (SLAAC) and Duplicate Address Detection (DAD), is a critical component ensuring seamless network connectivity.

IPv6 was delivered with migration techniques to cover every conceivable IPv4 upgrade case, but many were ultimately rejected by the technology community, and today we are left with a small set of ...

Many businesses say they see no economic advantage to deploying IPv6 over their networks, but they soon may not have a choice, experts say Although many businesses say they see no economic advantage ...