Introduction to IPv6
Denis Smajlović
DEF CON 32 Creator Stage · Day 1 · Creator Stage
In his DEF CON 32 talk, "Introduction to IPv6," Denis Smajlović, a Principal Security Consultant at Nova Information Security, tackles the pervasive challenge of understanding **IPv6** within the cybersecurity community. Smajlović highlights a common struggle: many security professionals, including himself, find IPv6 intimidating and prefer to maintain infrastructure on the "legacy" **IPv4** protocol. The core premise of his presentation is that the complexity often attributed to IPv6 is, in fact, a byproduct of the numerous extensions, **NATing**, and other workarounds that have accumulated around IPv4 over decades, abstracting its original intent.