Course 601: IPv6 Security Training

IPv6 is a IETF standard that allows the Internet to expand it's address space, provide better IP mobility, and enhance security. TONEX’s IPv6 Security training course provides a technical understanding of the IPv6 security.

IPv6 Security Fundamentals course provides a formal framework for IPv6 end-to-end security architecture and implementation issues. The course provides the essential needs in managing a IPv6 network audit and vulnerability assessment. It provides a formal framework for finding and eliminating IPv6 network security threats, ensuring that no vulnerabilities are overlooked.

The course also details what commercial, freeware, and shareware tools are available, how they work, and how to use them. By following the procedures outlined in the course, you can pinpoint what individual parts of your IPv6 network need to be hardened.

After attending this course, you will be able to:

• Understand the basics of IPv6
• Understand the basics of IPv6 Security
• Secure IPv6 networks against threats and attacks
  
• Analyze and react to denial-of-service (DoS) attacks
• Implement security standards and processes to protect your IPv6 network
  
• Create a secure IPv6 infrastructure

Introduction to IPv6

• IPv6 in a nutshell
• Larger address space
• Hierarchical addressing
• Stateless and stateful address configuration
• Built-in security
• Extensibility
• New IPv6 header
• Mobility
• Large address space
• IPv6 Header Format
• IPv4 Compatibility
• IPv6 Operation
• IPv6 Addressing Architecture
• ICMPv6 and Neighbor Discovery Protocol
• Using DNS and DHCP with IPv6
• Supporting Security and Mobility with IPv6
• Routing in IPv6 Networks
• Using IPv6 services
• IPv6 operation and Architecture
• Basic transition mechanisms
• Tunneling protocols create new risks
• IPv6 autoconfiguration

Introduction to IPSec and Mobile IP

• IPv4 security issues
• Denial of service attacks (DOS)
• Man-in-the-middle attacks
• ARP poisoning and ICMP redirect
  
• Port scanning as one of the best known reconnaissance Techniques IPv6 Features and benefits
• Authentication and Confidentiality
• IPsec architecture
• The Security Policy Database (SPD)
• Security Association Database (SAD)
• Peer Authorization Database (PAD)
• SA and Key Management
• IP Traffic Processing
• AH and ESP Headers AH and ESP security protocols
• Tunnel mode and transport mode
• Security policy (SP)
• Selector
• Security Association (SA), Key exchange protocols
• Security Protocols
• AH and ESP
• Security Parameter Index (SPI)
• Sequence Number
• Virtual Private Networking (VPN)
• Mobile IPv6
• Wireless IP mobility
• Roaming with IPv6
• Mobile IPv6 applied to Wireless LANs, MANS and WANs
• Basic Wireless LAN and cellular networks security
• Mobile IP protocols and design
• IPv6 deployment and migration
  

• IPv6 Security Essentials
• Fundamental Principles and Strategies
• Physical Security
• Encryption
• Digital Signatures
• Public Key Infrastructure
• Dealing with Technology Evolution
• Network Security Awareness
• Developing Security Policies, Assessments and Procedures
• IPv6 Security Considerations and Recommendations
• IPv6 Neighbor Discovery trust models and threats
  
• Implementing Security for IPv6, Cisco Documentation
  
• Security Implication of Mixed IPv4/IPv6 Network
  
• IPv6 end-to-end security
• IPv6 headers
  
• IPv6 Extension Headers
• Fragmentation
  
• Routing Header
  
• Privacy
  
• Managing privacy extensions
  
• IPsec, VPNs, IKE, PKI
• IPv6 autoconfiguration creates addressing complexity
  

IPv6 and IPv4 Threat Comparison

• Best-Practice Evaluation
• Overview of IPv4 Topology and Best-Practice Security Rules
• Threat Analysis Attacks with New Considerations in IPv6
• Reconnaissance
• Unauthorized Access
• Header Manipulation and Fragmentation
• Layer 3-Layer 4 Spoofing ARP and DHCP Attacks Broadcast Amplification Attacks (smurf)
• Routing Attacks
• Viruses and Worms
• IPv6 and IPv4 Threat Comparison
• Translation, Transition, and Tunneling Mechanisms
• Attacks with Strong IPv4 and IPv6
• Similarities
• Sniffing
• Application Layer Attacks
• Rogue Devices
• Man-in-the-Middle Attacks
• Flooding
  
• IPv6 and IPv4 Threat Comparison
• IPv6 Security Considerations
• Authorization for Automatically Assigned Addresses and Configurations
• Protection of IP Packets
• Host Protection from Scanning and Attacks
• Control of What Traffic is Exchanged with the Internet
• Reconnaissance Tools
  

IPv6 Network Vulnerabilities and Attacks

• Detailed analysis of IPv6 headers
• Elimination of NAT
• Denial of Service (DoS) and Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS)
• Ethernet LAN Security
• Frame Relay Network Security: Vulnerabilities and Mitigations
• ICMP Attacks
• IPv6 Spoofing
• ICMP, ICMP Attack, Ping Attack, Smurf Attack, PING Flood, Ping of Death
• Land Attack
• Network Security at the Data Link Layer (Layer 2) of LAN
• Network Security at the Network Layer (Layer 3: IP)
• Network Security at the Transport Layer (Layer 4: TCP and UDP)
• Pharming and Anti-pharming Mitigations and Technologies
• Phishing and Anti-phishing Mitigations and Technologies
• Port Scan Attack
• Public-Key or Asymmetric Cryptography
• RIP Routing Attacks
• Smurf Attack and Fraggle Attack
• SPAM and Anti-Spam Technologies
• Spyware and Anti-Spyware Mitigations and Technologies
• TCP Connecting Hijacking: MAN-In-The-Middle Attack
• TCP "SYN" Attack
• TCP/IP Network Vulnerability and Security
• UDP Flood Attack
• Widely Used Attack Tools
• Virus and Antivirus Technologies
• Top Information and Networking Threats

IPV6 Security Audit & Control

• Host- and Network-based Intrusion Detection
• Firewalls and Honeypots
• Vulnerability Scanners
• Computer Security Policies
• Password Managemen
• Incident Handling
• Information Warfare
• Encryption
• VPN's, PKI, and PGP
• Common Vulnerabilities in Wireless IPSec/VPN Deployments
• Firewall Test, Port Scan, Spy Ware and Security Audit
• Find Security Holes

IP VPN Services

• Attacking IPsec VPNs
• Check Point VPN Security Issues
• Microsoft PPTP
• VPN Services Countermeasures
  

IPv6 Risk Assessment and Auditing

• Host and Network Based Intrusion Detection
• Honeypots, Firewalls and Perimeter Protection
• Security Policy
• Information Warfare
• Web Security
• Network Fundamentals and IP Concepts and Behavior
• Cisco Router Filters
• Four Primary Threats for Perimeter Protection
• PGP, Steganography
• Anti-Viral Tools
• Windows (2000, XP, NT, 98) IPv6 Security Administration and Auditing
• IIS Security
• Unix IPv6 Security

Firewalls, Perimeter Protection, and VPNs

• IPv6 Stimulus/Response and Fragmentation
• Complex IP Transports and Services
• TCPdump, WINdump, Ethereal and Other Sniffers
• Static Packet Filtering
• Stateful Packet Filtering and Inspection
• Proxies
• Popular IPv6 Firewall Products
• Implementing Security with Cisco Routers
• Intrusion Detection
• Centralized Logging
• Firewall Log File Analysis
• Log File Alerting
• IPSec, SSL, and SSH
• Designing a Secure Perimeter
• Network and Host Based Auditing
  

Securing Unix/Linux and Microsoft Platforms in IPv6 Networks

• Network-Based Attacks
• Memory Attacks, Buffer Overflows
• File System Attacks, Race Conditions
• Trojan Horse Programs and Rootkits
• Monitoring and Alerting Tools
• Network Security Tools
• Policies and Operations
• DMZ: DeMilitarized Zone in Networks
• Layered Defenses of Network and Information Security