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IPv6 Network Security


  • secwest.net Vancouver Canada (map)

Description

IPv6 has been around "on paper" for a long time and the "migration deadline" is slowly getting closer as available IPv4 addresses shrink.

Depending on who you ask and how you look at it it can be considered either a minor or a major evolution from IPv4, especially on the security front.

We will present and discuss the protocol(s), their implementation, what the security changes are (good and bad), issues you will face during a migration, etc.

The lab sessions will enable you to understand IPv6 security in more details.

Topics

We will present:

  • IPv6

  • What changes from IPv4.

  • What the new IPv6 protocols are.

  • How they impact the overall security.

  • The new holes you'll poke into existing IPv4 deployments.

Prerequisites

For the lab exercises we will use scapy6, dynamips and wireshark. You have to bring your own laptop, running Linux (native or virtualized). Make sure the operating system is working properly especially the network component if you run it inside a VM. You don't have to pre-install the tools.

scapy6 is not supported on Win32 and has been tested only in very limited manner on *BSD/MacOs. We will not be able to debug during the dojo.

Prerequisite material

None in particular. The student should be "fluent" with tcpdump/wireshark output, understand basic TCP/IP routing and basic *NIX network commands.

 

Instructor: Nico Fischbach

Nico is a Senior Manager, in charge of the European Network Security Engineering team at COLT Telecom, a leading pan-European provider of end-to-end business communications services.

He holds an Engineer degree in Networking and Distributed Computing and is a recognized authority on Service Provider infrastructure security and denial-of-service attacks mitigation.

Nicolas is co-founder of Sécurité.Org a French speaking portal on computer and network security, of eXperts and mystique, an informal security research group and think tank, and of the French chapter of the Honeynet project.

He has presented at numerous technical and security conferences, teaches networking and security courses at various universities and engineering schools, and is a regular contributor to the french security magazine MISC. More details and contact information on his homepage.

 

Instructor: Guillaume Valadon

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