Requirements for IPv6 Firewalls

Valdis.Kletnieks at vt.edu Valdis.Kletnieks at vt.edu
Mon Apr 21 17:20:40 UTC 2014


On Mon, 21 Apr 2014 12:10:31 -0400, Lee Howard said:

> "Methods used to meet the intent of this
> requirement may vary depending on the specific
> networking technology being used. For example,
> the controls used to meet this requirement may be
> different for IPv4 networks than for IPv6 networks."
> https://www.pcisecuritystandards.org/documents/PCI_DSS_v3.pdf
>
> Based on my experience with compliance auditors, they won't understand
> many of the words in this sentence, and will assume NAT and RFC1918.

So there's the *real* problem in a nutshell. People think we're supposed to
hobble our networks with crap design just because the auditors can't get their
industry's shit together.

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