NetBackup and Veritas Appliances Hardening Guide
- Top recommendations to improve your NetBackup and Veritas appliances security posture
- Introduction
- Keeping all systems and software updated
- Enabling multifactor authentication
- Increasing the appliance security level
- Implementing an immutable data vault
- Securing credentials
- Reducing network exposure
- Enabling encryption
- Enabling catalog protection
- Enabling malware scanning and anomaly detection
- Enabling security observability
- Restricting user access
- Configuring a sign-in banner
- Steps to protect Flex Appliance
- About Flex Appliance hardening
- Managing single sign-on (SSO)
- Managing user authentication with smart cards or digital certificates
- About lockdown mode
- Using network access control
- Using an external certificate
- Forwarding logs
- Creating a NetBackup WORM storage server instance
- Configuring an isolated recovery environment on a WORM storage server
- Protecting the NetBackup catalog on a WORM storage server
- Using a sign-in banner
- Steps to protect NetBackup Appliance
- About NetBackup Appliance hardening
- About single sign-on (SSO) authentication and authorization
- About authentication using smart cards and digital certificates
- Disable user access to the NetBackup appliance operating system
- About Network Access Control
- About data encryption
- FIPS 140-2 conformance for NetBackup Appliance
- About implementing external certificates
- About forwarding logs to an external server
- Creating the appliance login banner
- Steps to protect NetBackup
- About NetBackup hardening
- Configure NetBackup for single sign-on (SSO)
- Configure user authentication with smart cards or digital certificates
- Access codes
- Workflow to configure immutable and indelible data
- Add a configuration for an external CMS server
- Configuring an isolated recovery environment on a NetBackup BYO media server
- About FIPS support in NetBackup
- Installing KMS
- Workflow for external KMS configuration
- Validating KMS credentials
- Configuring KMS credentials
- Configuring KMS
- Creating keys in an external KMS
- Workflow to configure data-in-transit encryption
- Workflow to use external certificates for NetBackup host communication
- About certificate revocation lists for external CA
- Configuring an external certificate for the NetBackup web server
- Configuring the primary server to use an external CA-signed certificate
- Configuring an external certificate for a clustered primary server
- Configuring a NetBackup host (media server, client, or cluster node) to use an external CA-signed certificate after installation
- Configuration options for external CA-signed certificates
- ECA_CERT_PATH for NetBackup servers and clients
- ECA_TRUST_STORE_PATH for NetBackup servers and clients
- ECA_PRIVATE_KEY_PATH for NetBackup servers and clients
- ECA_KEY_PASSPHRASEFILE for NetBackup servers and clients
- ECA_CRL_CHECK for NetBackup servers and clients
- ECA_CRL_PATH for NetBackup servers and clients
- ECA_CRL_PATH_SYNC_HOURS for NetBackup servers and clients
- ECA_CRL_REFRESH_HOURS for NetBackup servers and clients
- ECA_DISABLE_AUTO_ENROLLMENT for NetBackup servers and clients
- ECA_DR_BKUP_WIN_CERT_STORE for NetBackup servers and clients
- MANAGE_WIN_CERT_STORE_PRIVATE_KEY option for NetBackup primary servers
- Guidelines for managing the primary server NetBackup catalog
- About protecting the MSDP catalog
- How to set up malware scanning
- About backup anomaly detection
- Send audit events to system logs
- Send audit events to log forwarding endpoints
- Display a banner to users when they sign in
About single sign-on (SSO) authentication and authorization
You can configure SSO with a supported external identity provider (IDP) that uses the SAML 2.0 protocol for exchanging authentication and authorization information. Note that you can configure an IDP with more than one Veritas product. For example, the same IDP can be configured with NetBackup and with APTARE.
Note the following requirements and limitations:
You must have a SAML 2.0 compliant identity provider configured in your environment.
Only identity providers that use AD or LDAP directory services are supported. ADFS (Active Directory Federation Services) is currently the only supported IDP for the NetBackup Appliance.
IDP configuration is managed by using the Main > Settings > Security > Authentication > SingleSignOn command. You can configure only one IDP for SSO.
SAML users cannot use the APIs. API keys are used to authenticate a user and therefore cannot be used with SAML-authenticated users.
SSO login is currently supported only to the NetBackup Appliance Web Console (web console).
Global logout is not supported.
SSO configuration is supported from the NetBackup Appliance Shell Menu (shell menu). The following describes an overview on how to configure and enable SSO for an appliance.
Table: Process overview for SSO configuration
Step | Task | Description |
|---|---|---|
1 | Obtain the IDP metadata XML file. | The SAML metadata that is stored in XML files is used to share configuration information between the IDP and the appliance. The IDP metadata XML file is used to add the IDP configuration to the appliance. The following options are available:
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2 | Configure SSO on the appliance. | Configure the appliance for SSO from the following shell menu view: Main > Settings > Security > Authentication > SingleSignOn |
3 | Authorize SSO users and user groups. | Configure appliance access for SSO users and user groups from the following shell menu view: Main > Settings > Security > Authorization You can grant administrator or AMS privileges to SSO users and user groups. |
To perform the complete SSO configuration process, see the following topic:
See Configure single sign-on (SSO) for a NetBackup Appliance.