Veritas NetBackup™ Appliance Security Guide

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Product(s): Appliances (3.1)
  1. About the NetBackup appliance Security Guide
    1.  
      About the NetBackup appliance Security Guide
  2. User authentication
    1. About user authentication on the NetBackup appliance
      1.  
        User types that can authenticate on the NetBackup appliance
    2. About configuring user authentication
      1.  
        Generic user authentication guidelines
    3.  
      About authenticating LDAP users
    4.  
      About authenticating Active Directory users
    5.  
      About authenticating Kerberos-NIS users
    6.  
      About the appliance login banner
    7. About user name and password specifications
      1.  
        About STIG compliant password policy rules
  3. User authorization
    1.  
      About user authorization on the NetBackup appliance
    2. About authorizing NetBackup appliance users
      1.  
        NetBackup appliance user role privileges
    3.  
      About the Administrator user role
    4.  
      About the NetBackupCLI user role
  4. Intrusion prevention and intrusion detection systems
    1.  
      About Symantec Data Center Security on the NetBackup appliance
    2.  
      About the NetBackup appliance intrusion prevention system
    3.  
      About the NetBackup appliance intrusion detection system
    4.  
      Reviewing SDCS events on the NetBackup appliance
    5.  
      Running SDCS in unmanaged mode on the NetBackup appliance
    6.  
      Running SDCS in managed mode on the NetBackup appliance
    7.  
      Overriding the NetBackup appliance intrusion prevention system policy
    8.  
      Re-enabling the NetBackup appliance intrusion prevention system policy
  5. Log files
    1.  
      About NetBackup appliance log files
    2.  
      Viewing log files using the Support command
    3.  
      Where to find NetBackup appliance log files using the Browse command
    4.  
      Gathering device logs with the DataCollect command
    5.  
      Log Forwarding feature overview
  6. Operating system security
    1.  
      About NetBackup appliance operating system security
    2.  
      Major components of the NetBackup appliance OS
    3.  
      Disabled service accounts on the NetBackup appliance
    4.  
      Vulnerability scanning of the NetBackup appliance
  7. Data security
    1.  
      About data security
    2.  
      About data integrity
    3.  
      About data classification
    4. About data encryption
      1.  
        KMS support
  8. Web security
    1.  
      About SSL certification
  9. Network security
    1.  
      About IPsec Channel Configuration
    2.  
      About NetBackup appliance ports
  10. Call Home security
    1.  
      About AutoSupport
    2. About Call Home
      1.  
        Configuring Call Home from the NetBackup Appliance Shell Menu
      2.  
        Enabling and disabling Call Home from the NetBackup Appliance Shell Menu
      3.  
        Configuring a Call Home proxy server from the NetBackup Appliance Shell Menu
      4.  
        Understanding the Call Home workflow
    3. About SNMP
      1.  
        About the Management Information Base (MIB)
  11. IPMI security
    1.  
      Introduction to IPMI configuration
    2.  
      Recommended IPMI settings
    3.  
      Replacing the default IPMI SSL certificate
  12. STIG compliance
    1.  
      OS STIG hardening for NetBackup appliances
    2.  
      Unenforced STIG hardening rules
  13. Appendix A. Security release content
    1.  
      NetBackup Appliance security release content

About the NetBackup appliance intrusion detection system

The appliance intrusion detection system (IDS) consists of a custom Symantec Data Center Security (SDCS) policy that runs automatically at startup. The IDS policy is a real-time policy for monitoring significant system events and critical configuration changes, while optionally taking remediation actions on events of interest.

The following list contains some of the events that the IDS policy monitors:

  • User logons, logouts, and failed log on attempts

  • Sudo commands

  • User addition, deletion, and password changes

  • User group addition, deletion, and member modifications

  • System auto-start option changes

  • Modifications to all system directories and files, including core system files, core system configuration files, installation programs, and common daemon files

  • NetBackup services start and stop

  • Detected system attacks from UNIX rootkit file/directory detection, UNIX worm file/directory detection, malicious module detection, suspicious permission change detection, and so on

  • Audit of all the NetBackup Appliance Web Console and NetBackup Appliance Shell Menu activity, including shell operations for maintenance, root, and NetBackupCLI users.