Manufacturer Usage Descriptions otherwise known as “MUD” facilitate’s device visibility and segmentation by allowing your network administrators to effortlessly identify a specific type of IoT device and then define the appropriate behaviors for that device. IoT manufacturers are able to disclose to us what devices are on the network, and what network policies they need for the devices to correctly function. This whitelist statement is something that customers can use to deploy access policies in their own networks without any guesswork.

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