Creating demand for IPv6

Wed Oct 3 15:29:43 UTC 2007

On Wed, 3 Oct 2007, Mark Smith wrote:
>
> The value of network perimeterisation as a security measure, of which
> NAT is a method, is being questioned significantly by network security
> people. The obvious example of why it is being questioned is when the
> CEO brings their laptop inside the "gooey" centre, bypassing the "hard
> shell" corporate firewalling/NAT box, and infecting all the devices on
> the corporate network with the malware they've caught from their home
> broadband connection.

Universities have understood this for many years, with the termly influx
of infected student computers.

Tony.
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