Anticipate Problems
Kevin Fream
America's Cyberist Helping Financial & Professional Services Avoid Loss, Improve Business, and Eliminate Doubt
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One of our cyberists is going to a client site because Cox is changing their IP address (like a phone number for any device).
If it's not changed before the deadline, the client won't have Internet and will be out of business.
People forget that ABC, NBC, CBS, and Fox News all reported that the Internet was running out of IP Addresses in 2011.
Basically, adding some extra digits created a new standard from IPV4 to IPV6. Every technology manufacturer and communications provider had to immediately provide alternate IPV6 addresses for every Internet connection.
IPV6 is the default communication protocol for every device today, but many technology people disable it and then wonder why everything is slow and doesn't work quite right.
Now there's a shell game going on with Internet service providers and web hosts scrambling to reassign limited and defunct IPV4 addresses as customers come and go.
IPV6 is faster and more secure, surpassing the old 4 billion device limit to 340 trillion trillion trillion.
Experts estimate in 24 months that IPV4 will be fully depleted and every device in the world must be replaced by IPV6.
Laggard organizations will be ostracized as out of touch and insecure, slowing down the whole Internet until at some point they can no longer connect.
Daily Mission:?Ask your IT support for a plan to convert to IPV6.
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