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NEW DATES Erion are delighted to announce new dates for their advanced IPv6 training course focusing on deploying and securing IPv6 networks and systems.

Our Implementing and Securing IPv6 course provides you with all that you need in order to plan for, design, deploy and secure IPv6 in your network.

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Implementing and Securing IPv6 is of our most popular IPv6 training courses.

This is an advanced technical course that is ideal for all technologists interested in learning how to both deploy and secure IPv6. This course is constantly updated in line with the latest IPv6 standards and products. This course has over two decades of continuous development.

IPv6 training is becoming increasingly relevant in 2023 with the widespread use of IPv6 and the increasing deterioration of the legacy IPv4 Internet.

Deploying IPv6 not only future proofs your network but it also brings with it the opportunity for performance, functionality and operational improvements.

IPv6 is very different from IPv4.

The common belief that IPv6 is IPv4 with longer addresses is wrong. IPv6 is made up of many new features and functions which are often widely and subtly different from those in IPv4. Even IPv6 addresses are significantly different from IPv4 addresses, not just in size, but in how they are structured, their types, their attributes, how many their are and how they are used. It is crucially important when deploying and securing IPv6 to move away from legacy IPv4 thinking and fully appreciate the differences from IPv4.

Erion is the world’s leading IPv6 training company. With over two decades of experience of providing IPv6 training and IPv6 consultancy services, Erion has the world’s most comprehensive portfolio of IPv6 training courses. Erion’s courses cover all aspects of IPv6 on all major operating systems and platforms.

All Erion’s IPv6 training courses are Gold certified by the IPv6 Forum. Our IPv6 security courses are also IPv6 Security certified from the IPv6 Forum.

This course will be delivered by Erion’s chief consultant Dr David Holder.

Please contact us for further details.

I was honored to be invited to talk with Ed Horley and Scott Hogg on this week’s packetpushers podcast about Overcoming the Big Three Objections to IPv6 Adoption.

We discussed the three main objections that I face when engaging with Erion’s clients in IPv6 deployments and how I respond to them. In particular, we discussed the differences between business and technical objections and the importance of responding in terms that are meaningful to the audience.

I also suggested a number of important points that are useful to make when justifying IPv6 adoption projects.

We are pleased to announce a new and even more comprehensive version of our IPv6 Forensics training course. The new course is five days long rather than four and we have included even more material and exercises to an already extensive and detailed course.

This course is designed for network security professionals and network forensics practitioners who wish to learn about IPv6 forensics. Attendees first learn about the basic principles of forensics, before proceeding to examine all aspects of IPv6 to determine where and how to obtain IPv6 forensics evidence. The course also covers a considerable number of important security and forensics tools and shows how forensics practitioners can use those tools to analyse IPv6 incidents.

Each module includes step-by-step practical exercises showing how to use each tool and extensive practice analysing simulated incidents. These tools include; packet capture tools, flow capture tools, system and applicating logging tools, intrusion detection systems and security systems. The course also includes how to configure and use Elasticsearch to capture and analyse a large set of different IPv6 evidence ranging from flow data to application data.

As always with Erion courses, this course includes comprehensive manuals consisting of a course manual, an exercises manual and an exercise solutions manual (over 530 sides in total).

For full details of this course see the IPv6 Forensics 5 days course description. For upcoming public training events see our training schedule here. If you do not see a location or date that meets your requirements, then please contact us to discuss what we can do with you. This course is also available in a virtual classroom and as a closed on-site event.

In January, I was honored to be invited to speak on IPv6 security at the UK Network Operators Forum (UKNOF42). The UKNOF is a not-for-profit organisation seeking to improve co-ordination between IP network operators in the UK to enhance the efficiency and stability of the UK’s network infrastructure. Their events attract a wide-range of presenters mainly from the UK. They are an excellent opportunity to share knowledge and best practice with other network operators on network operations and security.

The full list of presentations can be found here.

My presentation (video/slides) was a comprehensive overview of IPv6 security, why it needs to be taken seriously, how it differs from IPv4, the problems it presents and current IPv6 security techniques and best practice.

On a recent flight to the US I sat next to the IT director for a global corporation. He asked me why I was travelling, to which I answered that I was giving the keynote presentation at an IPv6 conference held by the US Federal government. Without hesitation, his response was “IPv6 is not even on my radar”.

This set me thinking about blockers to IPv6 adoption and how we can address them.  First, I spoke about this at the UK IPv6 Council’s annual meeting in December 2017 (slides, video).

More recently I have expanded upon this important topic in two posts; one on the APNIC blog and one, to mark the World IPv6 Day anniversary, on the RIPE Labs blog.

After over twently years of working with IPv6 we have reached the point where not only is IPv6 mature, widely implemented and deployed, but also where the gradual deterioration in the legacy IPv4 Internet is becoming a driver for adopting IPv6. What remains is to demonstrate that the blockers to IPv6 adoption are not as significant as some believe. Take a look at my post and let me know what you think.

I was delighted to be invited to speak at this year’s Global IoT Summit in Bilbao Spain. The GIoTS is a gathering of many of the world’s foremost IoT experts and opportunity for those working in the area to meet and exchange ideas.

Cybersecurity is of particular importance to IoT, where numeruous low-powered devices are often interfacing with and controlling critical systems in our daily lives. It is essential that these systems are secured even though the resources available on each device for security are constrained by functionality, capacity and power.

My presentation, which you can find here, sought to provide an overview of the IoT cybersecurity challenges and technologies. I focused on IPv6-based IoT solutions implemented using 6LowPAN. 6LowPAN is rapidly becoming the primary networking technology for IoT systems.

Further information on the IEEE Global IoT Summit can be found here.

NEW DATES Erion are delighted to announce new dates for their advanced IPv6 training course focusing on deploying and securing IPv6 networks and systems.

Our Implementing and Securing IPv6 course provides you with all that you need in order to plan for, design, deploy and secure IPv6 in your network.

Implementing and Securing IPv6 is of our most popular IPv6 training courses.

This is an advanced technical course that is ideal for all technologists interested in learning how to both deploy and secure IPv6. This course is constantly updated in line with the latest IPv6 standards and products. This course has over 19 years of continuous development.

IPv6 training is becoming increasingly relevant in 2017 with the exponential growth in the deployment of IPv6 and the increasing deterioration of the legacy IPv4 Internet.

Deploying IPv6 not only future proofs your network but it also brings with it the opportunity for performance, functionality and operational improvements. For example, Facebook found that end users using IPv6 experience a 15% performance improvement over end users using IPv4. Also, in the long term, IPv6 is the only protocol suitable as a basis for the Internet of Things (IoT).

Furthermore, we already reaching the point where organisations are not only considering moving to IPv6-only networks but have already deployed such networks. Microsoft, Facebook, LinkedIn and Cisco are amongst those who have or are in the process of deploying IPv6-only networks.

IPv6 is very different from IPv4.

The common belief that IPv6 is IPv4 with longer addresses is wrong. IPv6 is made up of many new features and functions which are often widely and subtly different from those in IPv4. Even IPv6 addresses are significantly different from IPv4 addresses, not just in size, but in how they are structured, their types, their attributes, how many their are and how they are used. It is crucially important when deploying and securing IPv6 to move away from legacy IPv4 thinking and fully appreciate the differences from IPv4.

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Erion is the world’s leading IPv6 training company. With over 19 years experience of providing IPv6 training and IPv6 consultancy services, Erion has the world’s most comprehensive portfolio of IPv6 training courses. Erion’s courses cover all aspects of IPv6 on all major operating systems and platforms.

All Erion’s IPv6 training courses are Gold certified by the IPv6 Forum. Our IPv6 security courses are also IPv6 Security certified from the IPv6 Forum.

This course will be delivered by Erion’s chief consultant Dr David Holder.

Instructor Bio: Dr David Holder CEng FIET MIEEE

Dr Holder has over twenty-eight years’ experience in the IT industry in senior technical and management posts. He is currently the CEO and chief consultant at Erion Ltd, the world-leading IPv6 training and IPv6 consultancy company.

In his role at Erion, Dr Holder has had over nineteen years’ experience providing IPv6 consultancy to leading global organizations worldwide. He has assisted organizations to develop IPv6 strategies, enable IPv6 in their products, create IPv6 address schemas and deploy IPv6. His experience covers all major networking and operating system platforms. Clients include Alcatel Lucent, Arbor Networks, Atos Origins, Brocade, BT, Dell, Ericsson, HP, IBM, Sony and Sophos. He is the author of white papers, solution guides, books and training courses on IPv6 and related topics. Recent papers include two published by the UK telecommunications regulator Ofcom on IPv6 and CGN.

In addition to his role at Erion, Dr Holder is active in promoting IPv6 both in the UK and abroad where he is a regular speaker at IPv6 related conferences. He is the chairperson of the IPv6 Task Force Scotland, founder of the IPv6 Future Enabler conference and is a regular speaker at Global conferences on IPv6.

Dr Holder has a PhD in High-Frequency Semiconductor Physics and an Honors degree in Electronic Engineering. He is a Chartered Engineer, a Fellow of the Institute of Engineering Technology and a Member of the IEEE. He holds several industry qualifications.

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Erion’s David Holder is honoured to have been invited to give the keynote address at next week’s Fedv6 conference in Washington DC.

Fedv6 is the organisation working within the US government to promote and deploy IPv6. The Federal government has a long history of working towards the adoption of IPv6. Towards this end they set two goals; firstly, to IPv6 enable public services by 2012 and secondly to deploy IPv6 internally by 2014.

Many good things have come out of the USG’s IPv6 efforts. These include useful documentation, guidance and tools. Back in 2008, NIST created the USGv6 Profile. This is a profile for IPv6 within the US government. In 2009, the Federal Acquisitions Regulation (FAR) made IPv6 a requirement in all purchases except where there is an explicit waiver. This step helped avoid funds being wasted on products that could not support IPv6.

In addition to all of this, NIST created a web-site that monitored the deployment of IPv6 on public services such as web-sites, mail servers and DNS.

Further information about the Fedv6 taskforce and the progress of IPv6 within the US government can be found in Kevin L. Jones’ recent presentation at the North American IPv6 Task Force (NAv6TF).

For those interested in the pressing issue of IPv6 security and wanting a high-level overview of the challenges and security features of IPv6 then the video from Erion’s David Holder’s recent presentation at the UK IPv6 Council’s IPv6 Security Workshop is now available on YouTube. The slides and a brief summary of the presentation can be found here

If you want to learn more about IPv6 security and IPv6 in general then why not contact us for details of our IPv6 training and IPv6 consultancy or attend one of our IPv6 courses such as the one we are running in the UK in September.

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NEW Erion are delighted to announce a new advanced IPv6 training course focusing on network forensics for IPv6 networks and systems.

This course is designed from the ground up to provide forensic investigators and network security professionals with all that they need to carry out effective IPv6 forensic investigations. In today’s cyber security aware environment, network forensics is playing an ever increasing role in investigating incidents. The significant growth in IPv6 within enterprise networks, the Internet of Things and the widespread deployment of IPv6 on the global Internet means that many current and future incidents will involve network forensics in IPv6 environments.

The often complex and varied differences between IPv4 and IPv6 mean that there is a very real need for investigators to learn about IPv6 and adapt their existing skills for IPv6 networks as well as understanding where new tools and approaches are required.

This course covers all aspects of IPv6 network forensics and provides both a grounding in advanced network forensics techniques and in the IPv6 technologies and tools that are available to assist investigators. The course includes details of the relevant aspects of the IPv6 protocols, implementations and operations pertinent to gathering evidence

The IPv6 Forensics course is run over 4-days and contains twelve comprehensive modules. Each module has extensive hands-on practical exercises so that delegates can explorer and gain experience with the techniques and tools taught in the course.

Erion can provide this course on-site at your premises or you may wish to attend one of our public runs of the course. If you wish we can create a tailored IPv6 training programme for your organisation that includes modules from this and any other of our many IPv6 courses. We can also accompany the training with specialist IPv6 consultancy.

The full course description can be found here.

Please do not hesitate to contact us for further information.