February 15, 2011
by Sheila Frankel,
Abstract
Due to the exhaustion of IPv4 address space, and the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) mandate that U.S. federal agencies begin to use the IPv6 protocol, NIST undertook the development of a guide to help educate federal agencies about the possible security risks during their initial IPv6 deployment. Special Publication (SP) 800-119, Guidelines for the Secure Deployment of IPv6, describes and analyzes IPv6's new and expanded protocols, services, and capabilities, including addressing, DNS, routing, mobility, quality of service, multihoming, and IPsec. For each component, there is a detailed analysis of the differences between IPv4 and IPv6, the security ramifications and any unknown aspects. It characterizes new security threats posed by the transition to IPv6 and provides guidelines on IPv6 deployment, including transition, integration, configuration, and testing. It also addresses more recent significant changes in the approach to IPv6 transition.
Sheila Frankel will discuss the security-related aspects of IPv6 deployment and NIST's recommendations for secure IPv6 deployment.
About the speaker
Sheila Frankel is a computer scientist and computer security researcher in NIST's Computer Security Division. She is an active participant in the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) IPsec standardization effort, and was responsible for NIST's IPsec/IKE reference implementation and interactive Web-based interoperability tester. She is the author of a book on IPsec, "Demystifying the IPsec Puzzle" and author of several IPsec-related RFCs. She also contributed to IEEE's 802.11i wireless standardization. Currently, she is involved with the Federal Government’s transition to IPv6, the next generation Internet protocol, and is a co-author of NIST’s U.S. Government IPv6 Profile. She holds a Masters degree from New York University's Courant Institute.
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Tuesday, February 15, 2011 6:30 PM
Government Printing Office
Room A138
732 N. Capitol St.
Washington, DC, 20401
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