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Enhancing Network Security in IPv6 Transition: The Need for a New Security Model

This paper explores the necessity for a new security model in the transition to IPv6, addressing threats and challenges posed by transition mechanisms, including tunneling and coexistence issues. By analyzing current security mechanisms and proposing a revised model focusing on distributed security, end-to-end IPsec, and dynamic policy enforcement, an enhanced approach to network security is presented. The importance of comprehensive security measures, such as distributed firewalls, host-based security, and intrusion detection systems, is emphasized to mitigate security vulnerabilities in both IPv4 and IPv6 networks. The conclusion highlights the significance of developing optimized security policies, implementing robust security technologies, and conducting thorough security tests to safeguard network communication effectively.

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Enhancing Network Security in IPv6 Transition: The Need for a New Security Model

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  1. IPv6 Transition : Why a new security mechanisms model is necessary? Abidah Hj Mat Taib abidah@perlis.uitm.edu.my abidah@nav6.org Universiti Teknologi Mara, Perlis Malaysia

  2. Outline • Transition / coexistence • Security Threats • Threats due to Transition Mechanisms • Current Security Mechanisms • Current IPv4 Security Model • New Security Model • Conclusion

  3. Transition .. coexistence? IPv4IPv6 Security Considerations IPv6 Deployment IPv6 Specific Protocol Transition Mechanisms

  4. Threats due to Transition Mechanisms -- Dual stack • Applications on device can be subject to attack on both IPv4 and IPv6. • Need parallel filtering/detection rules for IPv4 and IPv6 packets. Internal network Internet IPv4 IPv6

  5. Security Threats • Similar threats in IPv4 & IPv6 networks. • Reconnaissance - exploit the site scope multicast address – flooding -- DoS • Misuse of routing headers – packets spoofed & redirect attacked packets to initiate DoS • Fragmentation related attacks • Misuse of ICMPv6 and multicast • ICMPv6 Stateless Auto-Configuration • Route Implanting with ICMPv6 Redirects (use fake Echo Request) • Smurf IPv6 – source is target, destination is local multicast address. Generates lots of local traffic that is sent to source) • Autoconfiguration and Neighbor Discovery Vulnerabilities

  6. Threats due to Transition Mechanisms -- Tunneling • Injection packet • Exploiting the tunnel interface • Bypassing ingress filtering checks • Complexity for configuring devices as well as logging and monitoring the traffic • IPv4 firewall has to open for protocol 41 (IPv6) and protocol 58 (ICMPv6) at the remote end of the tunnel.

  7. TunnelingMechanisms Security Issues

  8. Current Security Mechanisms

  9. Current IPv4 Security Model : network-based INTERNET IDS Edge Router Internal Network Stateful Firewall

  10. Current IPv4 Network-based Security Scheme • Peer – firewall – Internet – firewall – peer • Security policy enforced by firewalls • Blocking attackers from outside BUT no firewall blocking attack coming from the same LAN segment • Lack of secure end-to-end • IDS – to find potential security problems and to detect unauthorized intrusion and misuse of network resources.

  11. Current IPv4 Network-based Security Scheme .. cont… • Perimeter defense • IP firewalls, HTTP/HTTPS firewalls, content analysis: antivirus, anti spam, etc • Defense in depth and network segmentation • DMZ, layered architecture • TLS/SSL based business application and VPNs for remote access

  12. Revised Model - Host-based Security INTERNET Perimeter Firewall LAN-1 IDS Internal Network Edge Router LAN-2 LAN-3 Host-based firewalls / IDS

  13. New Security Model -Distributed mechanisms Centralized Security Policy Repositories INTERNET Perimeter Firewall LAN-1 IDS Internal Network Edge Router LAN-2 LAN-3 Host-based firewalls / IDS

  14. New Security Model • End-to-End IPsec • Distributed security with the communicating hosts providing the policy enforcement for their own communication. • Creating specific policies for securing comm. based on currently running appl. Rather than having a central enforcement point try and provide a single group-based policy. • Possible to create more dynamic security policies which can vary over time based on changing trust relationships.

  15. Distributed security endpoints • Consists of host-resident firewalls, intrusion detection, security patching, and security status monitoring – can be accomplished by kernel-mode processes within an OS. • A managed distributed host-based firewall system utilizing end-to-end IPsec can implement separate multi-level security policies with fine granularity. • Using end-to-end model, it is possible to divide users and servers into various trust groups and interest communities to implement separate security rules.

  16. Conclusion To design a new security mechanisms model • In depth understanding of IPsec • Define optimum security policies associated to network requirements • Build a comprehensive distributed firewalls to counter security issues in IPv4 as well as IPv6 • As well as IDS and IPS, logging/auditing • Security test using available attacking tools

  17. Bibliographies • Kaeo, et. al., 2006, IPv6 Network Security Architecture 1.0, NAv6tf, www.nav6tf.org. • Van Hauser, The Hackers Choice, 2006, http://www.thc.org . • J. Mohacsi, IPv6 Security:Threats and Solutions, http://www.6net.org/events/workshop-2005/mohacsi.pdf • P. Nikander, J. Kempf, and E. Nordmark, “IPv6 Neighbor Discovery (ND) Trust Models and Threats”, RFC3756, May 2004. • E. Davies, S. Krishnan and P. Savola, “IPv6 Transition/Co-existence Security Considerations”, draft-ietf-v6ops-security-overview-06.txt (work in progress), Oct 2006. • Alvaro Vives and Jordi Palet, IPv6 Distributed Security: Problem Statement, Proceedings of the 2005 Symposium on Applications and the Internet Workshops (SAINT-W’05), IEEE, 2005.

  18. THANK YOU Q & A

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