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RE: IPv6 support in IDS/IPS products

Subject: RE: IPv6 support in IDS/IPS products
Date: Thu, 3 Nov 2005 11:55:35 -0500
David -

I will pipe up for NFR.  Our Sentivist Smart sensors are natively capable of
"all of the above" at the sensor engine level.  Tunneling, full analysis,
everything.  And we've been doing it for a couple of years now.

I cannot provide a list of vendors who do this, but I will say that I was
told 7 months ago by an IPv6 expert that we were the only IPS vendor he was
aware of who did it "properly".  I don't know if that's actually/still true,
so I'd be very interested in seeing who else chimes in on this thread.

Not surprisingly, we find this feature to be very popular in the U.S.
government and overseas, particularly in Asia.  What we try to explain to
the rest of the world is that even if they don't think they are running
IPv6, parts of their network may still be at risk of a tunneled IPv6 attack.

-MAB

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(nfr)(security)
Michael A Barkett, CISSP
Vice President, Systems Engineering
(www.nfr.com) +1.240.632.9000 Fax: +1.240.747.3512 

-----Original Message-----
From: David Williams [mailto:dwilliamsd@gmail.com]
Sent: Sunday, October 30, 2005 9:53 AM
To: focus-ids@securityfocus.com
Subject: IPv6 support in IDS/IPS products

Hi list,

I've read that some IDS/IPS vendors can monitor IPv6, but not
completely.  For example, they might be able to alert on the
presence of IPv6 traffic, but they can't actually do full analysis
because they can't parse the headers correctly.  Especially for
things like IPv6 tunneled over IPv4, or IPv6 tunneled over IPv6, etc.

Does anybody have a list of which vendors support what, and to what
extent?

thanks,

D



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