Dimensions
190 x 230 x 35mm
The authoritative and comprehensive guide to IPv6 security topics.
* Learn about the risks of running the IPv6 protocol without security
* Identify and avoid the major problems and pitfalls common when deploying IPv6
* Discover the techniques used by hackers, and see what Cisco products can defeat them.
* Master current best practices for securing IPv6 networks.
IPv6 Security teaches the reader about the security threats that exist when running the IPv6 protocol and how to secure an IPv6 network. This comprehensive guide to IPv6 security provides a broad range of coverage of threats, solutions, and planning strategies that any network professional tasked with networks security will find essential as the world's networks move over more aggressively to this new protocol. Topics are arranged to cover the threats first and then describe ways to combat these threats, providing the necessary background but getting to the solutions needed quickly and efficiently. Each section provides a brief understanding of the technology that has some security deficiencies, and then covers the threats against that part of the protocol and the potential risks. Then each section discusses how to protect against those threats. The second part of the book includes a review of protection mechanisms from Cisco, giving the reader cookie-cutter examples to follow that are in line with the current best practices for securing IPv6. This book brings together all the research that has been conducted to date on IPv6 security and consolidate all of these thoughts into one volume, providing a good mix of the concepts and the practice of IPv6 Security.
