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 certificate revocation lists for external CA
Certificate revocation list (CRL) for an external certificate authority (CA) contains a list of digital certificates that the external CA has revoked before the scheduled expiration date and should no longer be trusted.
NetBackup supports PEM and DER formats for CRLs for external CA.
CRLs for all CRL issuers or external CAs are stored in the NetBackup CRL cache that resides on each host.
During secure communication, each NetBackup host verifies the revocation status of the peer host's external certificate with the CRL that is available in the NetBackup CRL cache, based on the ECA_CRL_CHECK configuration option.
See ECA_CRL_CHECK for NetBackup servers and clients.
The NetBackup CRL cache is updated with the required CRLs using one of the following CRL sources:
ECA_CRL_PATH configuration option | A NetBackup configuration option (from See ECA_CRL_PATH_SYNC_HOURS for NetBackup servers and clients. |
CRL distribution point (CDP) | If you have not specified ECA_CRL_PATH, NetBackup downloads the CRLs from the URLs that are specified in the peer host certificate's CDP and caches them in the NetBackup CRL cache. See How CRLs from CDP URLs are used. NetBackup supports downloading CRLs from HTTP and HTTPS URLs that are specified in CDP. |
The NetBackup CRL cache contains only the latest copy of a CRL for each CA (including root and intermediate CAs).
The bpclntcmd -crl_download service updates the CRL cache during host communication in the following scenarios irrespective of the time interval set for the ECA_CRL_PATH_SYNC_HOURS or ECA_CRL_REFRESH_HOURS options:
When CRLs in the CRL cache are expired
If CRLs are available in the CRL source (ECA_CRL_PATH or CDP), but they are missing from the CRL cache
Note:
Once the bpclntcmd -crl_download service updates the CRLs in the CRL cache, it does not download the CRLs for the same CA for the next 15 min even though a valid download scenario has occurred. If you want to update the CRL within 15 min, terminate the bpclntcmd -crl_download service.