The integration and adoption of IPv6 in networks has been slow or
nonexistent in the industry. As an IT professional, if you were tasked with
drafting a brief on whether your organization should adopt IPv6, what
would your reasoning be for or against the adoption and why?
For your initial post, answer the question above. Take the following items
into consideration:
Why is it important for the internet community as a whole to adopt
IPv6 or transition to IPv6 technology before other users do?
Are there security concerns that validate the reasons not to adopt or
integrate IPv6?
Hi Class,
It is important to adopt IPv6 because it supports 128-bit addressing to
support 340 trillion IP addresses. IPV6 uses eight groups of hexadecimal
digits separated by colons. It can handle packets more efficiently, increase
security, and improve performance. The security concerns with IPv6 are the
human factor since we have decades of knowledge working with IPv4 so we
would think of our networks from the IPv4 perspective. Threat actors can
use an IPv6 proxy server to move laterally throughout an organization's
network without anyone knowing. Misconfigurations on the routers,
firewalls, and devices can create one concern. Another would be security
policy gaps since they might not be updated to support IPV6. Then the lack
of IPV6 experience since not many professionals would know it could lead
to incomplete security configurations.
https://www.varonis.com/blog/ipv6-security
https://www.networkworld.com/article/3254575/what-is-ipv6-and-why-aren-
t-we-there-yet.html
