New ISSA-BE event: IPv6 Security

Wednesday

Why should I care about IPv6 when IPv4 is still running just perfect for me? And why care about its security if we haven't even deployed it
yet?!?" Ignorance is bliss, until reality hits you like a bus. Example given when you find out that Windows Vista PC's have IPv6-in-IPv4 tunneling installed and enabled by default, your firewall is happily passing along the traffic unscreened and waving your intellectual property goodbye to some foreign destination far far away. You better prevent rude awakenings like this. Let us help you with that by inviting you to attend another very interesting ISSA Information Security Event!
This evening event will be held on Monday May 26th, 2008
Agenda :
1800h : Welcome with drinks and sandwiches
1830h : "Should I care about IPv6 Security?" (part 1) by Mr Eric Vyncke, Distinguished Engineer at Cisco Systems
1930h : short break
1945h : "Should I care about IPv6 Security?" (part 2) by Mr Eric Vyncke
2045h : closing drink
2200h : end of the event
This event is sponsored by Cisco and will be held on their premises in Diegem. More information about exact location, parking etcetera will
be provided in due time. Registration for the event is free but mandatory. In case there would be more registrations than available seats, ISSA members in good standing and trial members will be favoured over other people in a ratio of 70% (trial-)members to 30% non-members. Early registrants will have precedence over late registrants. Registration starts as of June 11th. Members as well as non-members register by e-mailing their contact details to mentioning "ISSA IPv6 Security Event Registration" in the subject line.
Free trial memberships can be set up through http://www.issa.org/Join.html - don't forget to choose "Brussels European" as Chapter Affiliation!
SPEAKERS' BIO'S AND ABSTRACTS OF THE PRESENTATIONS :
Mr Eric Vyncke, Distinguished Engineer at Cisco Systems
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Eric Vyncke graduated from the University of Liège, Belgium, in 1983 with a Master degree in Computer Science. He worked for a couple of companies like Siemens where he was the architect of the firewall product. Since 1997, he works for Cisco as a Distinguished Engineer by helping customers with security design and by assisting product design (notably security). His area of expertise includes the security
aspects of LAN switching, IP telephony and IPv6. He is a guest professor at a couple of Belgian Universities, participates regularly at the IETF (author of RFC 3585), ... He holds a CISSP certification. He is the main author of 'LAN Switch Security' and is currently
writing another book on IPv6 security.
Should I care about IPv6 Security?
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The session starts with a threat comparison between IPv4 and IPv6 networks with topics like scanning by worms, Neighbor Discovery, IP
spoofing, ... It also addresses some specific IPv6 issues like transition mechanisms (specially the tunneling techniques). The
transition mechanisms are shown to have latent threats even in networks not yet running IPv6. The good news is that there are now
mitigation techniques as well as security policy enforcements devices for IPv6.
We hope to welcome you on this very interesting security event!