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SECURITY 546

IPv6 Essentials

6 CPE Credits

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IPv6 may be far away for your network but operating systems and network devices will not hold back. Already, modern operating systems implement IPv6 by default. Windows 7, for example, ships with Teredo enabled by default. Your existing firewall may not block it. Learning more about IPv6 is essential to securing your network. This course is designed not just for implementers of IPv6, but also for those who just need to learn how to detect IPv6 and defend against threats unintentional IPv6 use may bring.

IPv6 is currently being implemented at a rapid pace in Asia in response to the exhaustion of IPv4 address space, which is most urgently felt in rapidly growing networks in China and India. Even if you do not feel the same urgency of IP address exhaustion, you may have to connect to these IPv6 resources as they become more and more important to global commerce.

This course will introduce network administrators and security professionals to the basic concepts of IPv6. While it is an introduction to IPv6, it is not an introduction to networking concepts. You should understand and be aware of the basic concepts of IPv4, and networking in general. It is an ideal refresher if you took SEC503 Intrusion Detection in Depth. However, you do not need to know IPv4 in the full detail in which it is presented in SEC503. The networking and IPv4 principles taught in SEC401 Security Essentials should prepare you for this course.

Valuable information to take back to work with me, as well as hands-on testing examples.
-Carol Jones, Office of Court Administration

Author Statement

The first time I heard about IPv6, I heard about things like "unlimited address space", and "all your traffic will be encrypted". However, I knew little about the meaning of these statements. As I delved deeper into IPv6 and started to deploy it in some of my networks, I found that much of what was said about IPv6 was more myth than reality. Implementing IPv6, and in particular securing IPv6, turned out to be a much larger challenge then I originally planned. While many networks are already "IPv6 ready", you as a network administrator are likely not. This course should make you "IPv6 ready" as well.

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SECURITY 546 :: IPv6 Essentials
SANS Network Security 2010 Las Vegas, NV September 19, 2010 - September 27, 2010
SANS Cyber Defense Initiative East 2010 Washington, DC December 10, 2010 - December 17, 2010
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