NetBackup and NetBackup Appliances Hardening Guide
- Top recommendations to improve your NetBackup and NetBackup appliances security posture
- Introduction
- Keeping all systems and software updated
- Enabling multifactor authentication
- Enabling multiperson authorization
- Increasing the 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 multifactor authentication
- Managing multifactor authentication on a primary or a media server instance
- Managing multifactor authentication on a WORM storage server
- 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 using the web UI
- Protecting the MSDP catalog on a WORM storage server
- Using a sign-in banner
- Steps to protect NetBackup Appliance
- About NetBackup Appliance hardening
- About multifactor authentication
- 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 antimalware protection
- About forwarding logs to an external server
- Creating the appliance login banner
- Steps to protect NetBackup
- About NetBackup hardening
- About multifactor authentication
- Configure NetBackup for single sign-on (SSO)
- Configure user authentication with smart cards or digital certificates
- Workflow to configure multi-person authorization for NetBackup operations
- 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
- Configure 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
- Steps to protect NetBackup Flex Scale
- About NetBackup Flex Scale hardening
- About the security meter
- STIG overview for NetBackup Flex Scale
- FIPS overview for NetBackup Flex Scale
- Managing the login banner
- Changing the password policy
- Support for immutability in NetBackup Flex Scale
- Authenticating users using digital certificates or smart cards
- About system certificates on NetBackup Flex Scale
- Deploying external certificates on NetBackup Flex Scale
- About multifactor authentication
- Considerations before configuring multifactor authentication
- Configuring multifactor authentication for your user account
- Disabling multifactor authentication for your user account
- Enforcing multifactor authentication for all users
- Configuring multifactor authentication for your user account when it is enforced in the cluster
- Resetting multifactor authentication for a user
- About single sign-on (SSO) configuration
- Configuring isolated recovery environment (IRE)
- Steps to protect Access Appliance
- About Access Appliance hardening
- FIPS 140-2 conformance for Access Appliance
- Managing the login banner using the UI
- Managing the password policy using the UI
- Support for immutability in Access Appliance
- About system certificates on Access Appliance
- About single sign-on (SSO) configuration
- Configuring user authentication using digital certificates or smart cards
- About multifactor authentication
- Considerations when configuring multifactor authentication
- Configuring multifactor authentication for your user account
- Disabling multifactor authentication for your user account
- Enforcing multifactor authentication for all users
- Configuring multifactor authentication for your user account when it is enforced in the cluster
- Resetting multifactor authentication for a user
- Configuring an isolated recovery environment using the command line
- Forwarding logs to an external server
Add a credential for CyberArk
This type of credential allows you to access an external CMS server.
To add a credential for an external CMS server
- On the left, click Credential management.
- On the Named credentials tab, click Add.
- Select NetBackup and click Start.
On Add a credential page, provide the following properties:
Credential name
Tag
Description (for example: This credential is used to access the external CMS.)
- Click Next.
- Select CyberArk as the category.
- Provide the credential details for CyberArk server:
These details are used to authenticate the communication between the NetBackup primary server and the external CMS server:
Certificate - Specify the certificate file contents.
Private key - Specify the private key file contents.
CA Certificate - Specify the CA certificate file contents.
Passphrase - Enter the passphrase of the private key file.
CRL check level - Select the revocation check level for the external CMS server certificate.
CHAIN - The revocation status of all the certificates from the certificate chain are validated against the CRL.
DISABLE - Revocation check is disabled. The revocation status of the certificate is not validated against the CRL during host communication.
LEAF - The revocation status of the leaf certificate is validated against the CRL.
- Click Next.
- Add a role that you want to have access to the credential.
Click Add.
Select the role.
Select the credential permissions that you want the role to have.
- Click Next and follow the prompts to complete the wizard.