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
Configuring a NetBackup host (media server, client, or cluster node) to use an external CA-signed certificate after installation
A NetBackup host (media server or client) is configured to use an external certificate during installation or upgrade. You may choose to do the configuration after installation.
Use this section to configure a host to use an external certificate.
You can use this section to configure an external certificate for a cluster node.
The configuration steps include:
Defining the external certificate configuration options
See Configuration options for external CA-signed certificates.
Ensuring that automatic enrollment is enabled - ECA_DISABLE_AUTO_ENROLLMENT is set to TRUE - or enrolling the external certificate manually for the host
See Enrolling an external certificate for a remote host.
The enrolled certificate is used for communication between the host and the primary server domain that is listed in the SERVER configuration option on the host.
The enrolled certificate is used for host communication.
Ensure that the NetBackup domain is enabled to use external CA-signed certificates by configuring the NetBackup web server.
See Configuring an external certificate for the NetBackup web server.
It is recommended that you enroll an external certificate for the primary server host before you enroll one for other hosts.
See Configuring the primary server to use an external CA-signed certificate.
Ensure that the certificate revocation lists (CRLs) for the external CA are stored at the required location.
If CRL distribution point (CDP) is used, ensure that the URLs that are specified in the CDP are accessible.
To configure a host (media server or client) to use an external certificate
- Update the configuration file (
bp.conffile or Windows registry) with the required external certificate-specific parameters on the host:See Configuration options for external CA-signed certificates.
For Windows certificate store
Use the nbsetconfig command to configure the following parameters:
ECA_CERT_PATH
ECA_CRL_CHECK (optional)
ECA_CRL_PATH (optional)
ECA_CRL_PATH_SYNC_HOURS (optional)
ECA_CRL_REFRESH_HOURS (optional)
ECA_DR_BKUP_WIN_CERT_STORE (optional)
For file-based certificates
Use the nbsetconfig command to configure the following parameters:
ECA_CERT_PATH
ECA_PRIVATE_KEY_PATH
ECA_TRUST_STORE_PATH
ECA_KEY_PASSPHRASEFILE (optional)
ECA_CRL_CHECK_LEVEL (optional)
ECA_CRL_PATH (optional)
ECA_CRL_PATH_SYNC_HOURS (optional)
ECA_CRL_REFRESH_HOURS (optional)
Note:
If you have a Flex Appliance application instance, the certificate files must be stored in the following directories on the instance:
ECA_CERT_PATH, ECA_PRIVATE_KEY PATH, and ECA_TRUST_STORE_PATH:
/mnt/nbdata/hostcert/ECA_CRL_PATH:
/mnt/nbdata/hostcert/crl - Ensure that the ECA_DISABLE_AUTO_ENROLLMENT option is set to TRUE using the nbgetconfig command. This ensures that automatic enrollment is enabled.
If the option is disabled and you want to manually enroll the certificate, run the following command on the host to enroll an external certificate with the primary server domain that is defined in the SERVER configuration option on the host:
nbcertcmd -enrollCertificate
For more details on the command, refer to the NetBackup Commands Reference Guide.