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Why You Should Stay Away from Extending IPv4 Solutions
As we approach the 10 year anniversary of World IPv6 Launch, a parallel effort attempting to extend IPv4 addressing is taking place – introducing a series of complex technical, political, and logistical issues. With all the success occurring with the ongoing migration to IPv6 (49% IPv6 adoption in North America according to Google), we recommend you …
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Log4j and DoDIN APL Implications
I know there’s been a lot of internet traffic on Log4j – not to mention all the drama on broken fixes, but we wanted to offer a different perspective: what are the Log4j vulnerability implications for DoD Information Network Approved Products List (DoDIN APL) testing and certification? What is the Log4j Issue? I wish this …
Designing toward a Zero Trust strategy
Earlier this year, DISA released the zero trust reference architecture for the DoD. Per President Biden’s Executive Order on Improving the Nation’s Cybersecurity released this year, “the Federal Government must advance toward Zero Trust Architecture.” With motivations within the Federal Government and DoD to adopt zero trust, several of our clients have asked how zero …
DoD Mandating IPv6-only
It has been decades in the making, but the near future is crystal clear now: the DoD is mandating IPv6-only. This is different than previous pushes to move the Department to some level of IPv6 enablement – including IPv6/IPv4 dual-stack, etc. This new push comes with very specific actions. This directive also arrives at the …
IPv6 in the DoD finally?
Lots of IPv6-related things hit the news cycle in the last few weeks.Here are some of those news items: 2020 IPv6 OMB Mandate: stating all federal agencies must transition at least 20% of their networks to IPv6-only by end of FY 2023 the NIST IPv6 Profile updated to their Revision 1 of the US Government …
Network Simulation with EVE-NG Webinar
Our very own Jeremy Duncan lead a webinar today on Network Simulation with EVE-NG. Thanks again to Tyrone Wilson from Cover6 Solutions and all the folks part of the DC Cybersecurity Professionals Meetup group for hosting us. If you have any questions feel free to get in contact with us today here! For anyone who …
IPv6-only Your Network: Cheap and Easy
The new trend for IPv6 migrations lately is going fully to IPv6, or IPv6-only. This means that your transition plan is IPv4 one day, and then you change and roll-out a single IP stack: to IPv6. You may be thinking, “but how is that possible considering most of the Internet is IPv4-only still?” The answer …
IPv6 Enabled Enterprises Workshop
The National Cybersecurity Center Center of Excellence (NCCoE) hosted a great IPv6 workshop today. Spectacular and substantive discussion packed into a morning workshop on the stae of IPv6 deployment in the enterprise network. The workshop was MCed by Doug Montgomery from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). You can take a look at …
Simple Python for Network Engineers
If you are a network engineer in 2018, and still think that your career is safe being a Putty Bandit (AKA console monkey) for the foreseeable future, then you are sorely mistaken. In fact, Python is the language (part scripting, part programming) that will be automating your job in the next 10 years. So the …