Embracing IPv6 With Zscaler: A Comprehensive Guide For Remote Users
Zscaler, Friday, August 15th, 2025
As the digital landscape evolves, so does the underlying infrastructure. IPv6 is steadily gaining traction. For organizations leveraging Zscaler, understanding how to seamlessly integrate IPv6 traffic from remote users while maintaining robust security is paramount.
This guide highlights Zscaler's commitment to IPv6 and discusses how Zscaler is fully equipped to service IPv6 traffic from your remote workforce, ensuring security policies are diligently enforced.
IPv6 versus IPv4
The modern Internet operates using two distinct IP addressing and routing protocols to identify devices and facilitate data transmission: IPv4 (Internet Protocol version 4) and IPv6 (Internet Protocol version 6). IPv4 employs a 32-bit addressing system, while IPv6 utilizes a significantly larger 128-bit addressing scheme. IPv6 was developed to address the looming exhaustion of available IPv4 addresses.