Yet with the gradual — some would say “glacial” — move to the Internet Protocol Version 6 (IPv6) address scheme, the Internet’s address space will grow from merely big to nearly infinite. The vastness of the address space will cause problems for many threat-intelligence firms, from allowing attackers to use a new address for every attack to causing a rapid expansion in the size of the database needed to track the data on various sources, says Tommy Stiansen, chief technology officer for Norse, a real-time threat intelligence provider.

via IPv6 To Complicate Threat-Intelligence Landscape — Dark Reading.