(WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Secure64 Software Corporation’s (www.secure64.com) entire line of Domain Name System and DNS Security Extensions products have received IPv6 Forum (www.ipv6forum.com) ”IPv6 Ready” gold certification, offering assurance to government agencies and international markets making the switch from IPv4 to the next-generation Internet Layer protocol.
According to Secure64′s announcement this week, its DNS and DNSSEC products have gained third-party assurance of their availability and security. Its products include Secure64 DNS Signer, which fully automates DNSSEC key generation, key rollover, zone signing and re-signing processes, and Secure64 DNS Authority, an authoritative name server software product that is available at all times, even during network attacks or restarts.
“Secure64 has strived from the beginning to be the ‘gold standard’ in DNS software,” Secure64 chief executive officer and director Steve Goodbarn said in a statement. “Achieving this latest certification provides our federal and international customers with even greater confidence that our DNS products are state of the art, while providing the highest level of security and performance available.”
Within the US, the Office of Management and Budget issued a mandate requiring federal agencies to be IPv6-enabled on their network backbones by June 2008, and further recommending that agencies only procure new IT products that are IPv6 compliant.
Government implementation, however, has been challenged by the lack of IPv6-enabled security devices and software applications available in the commercial marketplace until now.
At 128 bits, IPv6 has a much larger address space than the current standard, IPv4, which is facing the threat of address exhaustion because of its small size. A number of industry organizations have been trying to draw attention to this issue recently.
Only growing from 2.4 to 4 percent in 2008, IPv6′s continued slow growth will result in there being no IPv4 address space left if IPv6 is not fully adopted within three years, according to online performance and monitoring provider Pingdom (www.pingdom.com).
It also provides more flexibility in allocating addresses and routing traffic, eliminating the need for network address translation.
Secure64 helps reduce deployment and administration costs, while eliminating errors that can cause domains to become unavailable. It is alsoscalable to extremely large, dynamic environments by safely keeping DNSSEC signing keys online while providing incremental zone signing and extremely high signing performance.
