Cisco Systems, Inc.
Software usage description (SUD) for installable applications

Abstract:

This disclosure describes techniques for providing manufacturer usage description (MUD) solution to automatically update network access policy for client application software. The method may include embedding metadata in the application binary. The metadata may include MUD uniform resource identifiers (URIs) that may point to MUD files describing the application's network access requirements. The MUD files may be hosted by application vendor's MUD servers. The system may include a network policy server that is able discover the MUD URIs. The MUD URIs may be discovered based on extracting the MUD URIs from the metadata and/or being provision with the set of MUD URIs for trusted applications. The method may include enterprise wide policy and individual host policy for implementation of the MUD files.