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Peter Holland
May 05, 2023Iron Contributor
IPv6 impossible travel wrong geo-ip data
we are seeing a lot of alerts and reports of impossible travel coming up since the IPv6 support added to 365. In all instances it seems that whatever Defender for Cloud Apps is using to geo-tag the s...
Ted_Sturr
Sep 28, 2023Copper Contributor
Peter Holland, I have noted the same thing. The IP6 GeoLocation services do not have consistent and accurate data. I plugged in the IPv6 address being reported from Microsoft as located in Levittown,, NY but in fact we are in MA. When I went to https://www.iplocation.net/ip-lookup to check out what they reported as the Geolocation, they list 7 different service results and 5 of the 7 where incorrect. Not very good odds and defeats the validity of using IP ranges in Conditional Access policies.