NetBackup™ Security and Encryption Guide
- Read this first for secure communications in NetBackup
- Communication failure scenarios
- Increasing NetBackup security
- Security deployment models
- Auditing NetBackup operations
- About audit events
- Section I. Identity and access management
- About identity and access management
- AD and LDAP domains
- Access keys
- API keys
- Auth.conf file
- Role-based access control
- Smart card or digital certificate
- Single Sign-On (SSO)
- Enhanced Auditing
- NetBackup Access Control Security (NBAC)
- Configuring NetBackup Access Control (NBAC)
- Configuring Access Control host properties for the master and media server
- Access Control host properties dialog for the client
- Troubleshooting Access Management
- Windows verification points
- UNIX verification points
- Verification points in a mixed environment with a UNIX master server
- Verification points in a mixed environment with a Windows master server
- About determining who can access NetBackup
- Viewing specific user permissions for NetBackup user groups
- Section II. Encryption of data-in-transit
- NetBackup CA and NetBackup certificates
- About the Security Management utilities
- About host management
- Adding shared or cluster mappings
- Allowing or disallowing automatic certificate reissue
- About global security settings
- About host name-based certificates
- About host ID-based certificates
- Using the Certificate Management utility to issue and deploy host ID-based certificates
- About NetBackup certificate deployment security levels
- Setting up trust with the master server (Certificate Authority)
- About reissuing host ID-based certificates
- About Token Management for host ID-based certificates
- About the host ID-based certificate revocation list
- About revoking host ID-based certificates
- Host ID-based certificate deployment in a clustered setup
- About deployment of a host ID-based certificate on a clustered NetBackup host
- Migrating NetBackup CA
- Configuring data-in-transit encryption (DTE)
- Configure the DTE mode on a client
- Modify the DTE mode on a backup image
- How DTE configuration settings work in various NetBackup operations
- External CA and external certificates
- About external CA support in NetBackup
- Configuration options for external CA-signed certificates
- ECA_CERT_PATH for NetBackup servers and clients
- About certificate revocation lists for external CA
- About certificate enrollment
- Configuring an external certificate for the NetBackup web server
- About external certificate configuration for a clustered master server
- Regenerating keys and certificates
- NetBackup CA and NetBackup certificates
- Section III. Encryption of data at rest
- Data at rest encryption security
- About NetBackup client encryption
- Configuring standard encryption on clients
- About configuring standard encryption from the server
- Configuring legacy encryption on clients
- About configuring legacy encryption from the client
- About configuring legacy encryption from the server
- Additional legacy key file security for UNIX clients
- NetBackup key management service
- About FIPS enabled KMS
- Installing KMS
- Configuring KMS
- About key groups and key records
- Overview of key record states
- Configuring NetBackup to work with KMS
- About using KMS for encryption
- KMS database constituents
- Command line interface (CLI) commands
- About exporting and importing keys from the KMS database
- Troubleshooting KMS
- External key management service
- Configuring KMS credentials
- Configuring KMS
- Creating keys in an external KMS
- Working with multiple KMS servers
- Data at rest encryption security
- FIPS compliance in NetBackup
- NetBackup web services account
- Running NetBackup services with non-privileged user (service user) account
- Immutability and indelibility of data in NetBackup
- Backup anomaly detection
- Malware detection
- NetBackup Web UI Malware scanning workflow configuration
Configure smart card authentication with domain
If you want to map smart cards or certificates with AD or LDAP domain for user validation, add the AD or the LDAP domains that are associated with your NetBackup users. See the NetBackup Security & Encryption Guide.
Note:
Ensure that you complete the role-based access control (RBAC) configuration for the NetBackup users before you configure smart card or certificate authentication.
See Configuring RBAC .
To configure NetBackup to authenticate users with a smart card or digital certificate
- Sign in to the NetBackup web UI.
- At the top right, select Settings > Smart card authentication.
- Turn on Smart card authentication.
- Select the required AD or LDAP domain from the Select the domain option.
- Select a Certificate mapping attribute: Common name (CN) or Universal principal name (UPN).
- Optionally, enter the OCSP URI.
If you do not provide the OCSP URI, the URI in the user certificate is used.
- Click Save.
- To the right of CA certificates, click Add.
- Browse for or drag and drop the CA certificates and click Add.
Smart card authentication requires a list of trusted root or intermediate CA certificates. Add the CA certificates that are associated with the user digital certificates or the user smart cards.
Certificate file types must be
.crt
,.cer
,.der
,.pem
, orPKCS #7
format and less than 64KB in size. - On the Smart card authentication page, verify the configuration information.
- Before users can use a digital certificate that is not installed on a smart card, the certificate must be uploaded to the browser's certificate manager.
See the browser documentation for instructions or contact your certificate administrator for more information.
- When users sign in, they now see an option to Sign in with certificate or smart card.
If you do not want users to have this sign-in option yet, turn off Smart card authentication. (For example, if all users do not yet have their certificates configured on their hosts.). The settings that you configured are retained even if you turn off smart card authentication.
For such users, the domain name and domain type are smart card.