Federal Computer Week invites you to join experts Lumeta and Cisco for an interactive 60 Min Webinar on IPv6 Transition Best Practices

IPv6 migration is more than just another OMB mandate, and it’s about more than adding more address space. IPv6 adoption provides agencies with the opportunity to address some of the inherent security flaws that have plagued IPv4 networks while creating a backbone that can meet the mobility, collaboration and performance requirements of next generation e-gov applications.  Improperly managed, this change-intensive migration could expose networks to new security and compliance risks, and result in significant time and cost overruns. The migration process presents security and compliance challenges, including unintentionally enabled IPv6 traffic, poorly implemented policies, and an initial reduction in security posture.

To plan IPv6 migration, without introducing risk into the infrastructure, organizations must “begin with the end in mind.”  This means that IT organizations need an accurate picture of their IPv4 network including network assets, and the connections across the enterprise or between enterprises and beyond. Agencies require network visibility to identify inadvertently enabled IPv6 resources, as well as to determine if connectivity between IPv6 devices and other resources creates vulnerabilities.  Understanding what devices and security controls are on the network – and how they are configured throughout the migration lifecycle – is critical for maintaining security while in the process of IPv6 migration.  All of these questions need to be answered as part of a thorough migration readiness assessment.

In this Webcast experts from Cisco will present critical migration success factors and best practices for assessing readiness and risk.  You’ll learn how to:

• Assess your orgianization’s current infrastructure and capabilities for migration.   
• Build a migration plan that accurately reflescts the current picture of the infrastructure—focusing on gaps between policy and defenses.
• Accurately estimate needed changes to the infrastructure including device upgrades.
• Limit unwanted IPv6 connectivity throughout the transition.