{"id":2189,"date":"2017-03-14T15:52:16","date_gmt":"2017-03-14T13:52:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ofcourseimright.com\/?p=2189"},"modified":"2017-03-14T15:53:48","modified_gmt":"2017-03-14T13:53:48","slug":"mud-sliding-along","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/?p=2189","title":{"rendered":"MUD sliding along"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-2036\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ofcourseimright.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/mud-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"148\" height=\"98\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/mud-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/mud-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/mud-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/mud-1200x800.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 148px) 85vw, 148px\" \/>You may recall that I am working on a mechanism known as <a href=\"https:\/\/datatracker.ietf.org\/doc\/draft-ietf-opsawg-mud\/\">Manufacturer Usage Descriptions<\/a> (MUD).\u00a0 This is the system by which manufacturers can inform the network about how best to protect their products.\u00a0 The draft for this work is now about to enter &#8220;working group last call&#8221; at the IETF.\u00a0 This means that now would be a very good time for people to chime in with their views on the subject.<\/p>\n<p>In the meantime, MUD Maker has also been coming along. This is a tool that generates manufacturer usage descriptions.\u00a0 You can find the tool <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ofcourseimright.com\/mudmaker\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>MUD isn&#8217;t meant to be the whole enchilada of IoT security.\u00a0 Other tools are needed to authenticate devices onto the network, and to securely update them.\u00a0 And manufacturers have to take seriously not only their customers\u2019 needs, but what risk they may impose on others, as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pcworld.com\/article\/3132571\/hackers-create-more-iot-botnets-with-mirai-source-code.html\">Mirai<\/a> reminded us.\u00a0 Had MUD been around at the time, it\u2019s possible that Mirai would not have happened.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Your chance to try and chime in on Manufacturer Usage Descriptions, a way to protect IoT devices.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":172,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[87,545,536,9],"tags":[511,546,560,518],"class_list":["post-2189","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-internet","category-iot","category-mud","category-security","tag-iot","tag-iot-security","tag-mirai","tag-mud"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2189","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/172"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2189"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2189\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2191,"href":"https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2189\/revisions\/2191"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}