Another step toward the transition to IPv6 was taken when global security designers successfully tested security standards for the next generation of IP at a workshop conducted by ICSA Labs, an independent division of Verizon Business.
ICSA Labs focused its fourth-annual Internet Protocol Security (IPsec) forum, held recently in San Antonio, on testing how new products work with the latest security-related protocol, Internet Key Exchange version 2 (IKEv2).
The testing zeroed in on an emerging technology, IPv6, a next-generation protocol for the Internet with built-in security functionality. The current worldwide standard is IPv4.
The federal government has mandated that its agencies move to IPv6 by June 30. IPv6 can allow for many more Internet addresses, enabling more devices to connect to the Internet.
George Japak, managing director of ICSA Labs, said, “As IKEv2 and IPv6 work together in close combination, enhancements in these critical technologies will help to pave the way for a safer Internet.”
Vendors testing their products with IKEv2 were IBM, Microsoft, Nokia, SafeNet, SonicWALL, strongSwan Project, TAHI Project and Xpressent. Tests focused on certificate authentication, encryption and authentication algorithms, and use of an Internet protocol, known as MOBIKE, for remote users.
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