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
- Default RBAC roles
- NetBackup interface access for OS Administrators
- Smart card or digital certificate
- Single Sign-On (SSO)
- NetBackup Access Control Security (NBAC)
- Configuring NetBackup Access Control (NBAC)
- Configuring Access Control host properties for the primary 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 primary server
- Verification points in a mixed environment with a Windows primary server
- About determining who can access NetBackup
- Viewing specific user permissions for NetBackup user groups
- Minimizing security configuration risk
- Configuring multifactor authentication
- Configuring multi-person authorization
- 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 primary 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
- Configure an external certificate for the NetBackup web server
- About external certificate configuration for a clustered primary 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
- KMS operations using command-line interface (CLI)
- 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
- Ciphers used in NetBackup for secure communication
- FIPS compliance in NetBackup
- Disable FIPS mode for NetBackup
- NetBackup web services account
- Running NetBackup services with non-privileged user (service user) account
- Running NetBackup commands with non-privileged user account
- Immutability and indelibility of data in NetBackup
- Anomaly detection
- Section IV. Malware scanning
- Introduction
- How to setup Malware scanning
- Instant Access configurations
- Malware tools configurations
- Scan host configurations
- Prerequisites for a scan host
- Configuring scan host
- Configuring a scan host pool
- Managing a scan host
- Performing malware scan
- Managing scan tasks
- Malware scan configuration parameters
- Troubleshooting
Perform a malware scan
To perform a malware scan
- On left, click Detection and reporting > Malware detection.
- On the Malware detection page, click Scan for malware.
- In the Search by option, select one of the following:
Backup images
Assets by policy type
Assets by workload type
Note:
NetBackup supports VMware assets for malware scan of backup images only with MSDP.
For more information on the options for scanning, refer to the following on-demand scan:
See Backup images.
Following steps are applicable for scanning Assets by policy type and Assets by workload type.
- From the Client/Asset table, select a Client/Asset to scan.
- Click Next.
Note:
(Applicable only if Search by option is selected as Assets by policy type) If the selected client in the previous step supports multiple policy types, then user has an option of selecting a single policy type for scanning.
- For the Start date/time and End date/time verify the date and the time range or update it.
Note:
According to selection criterion, scan gets initiated to maximum of 100 images.
- In the Scanner host pool, Select the appropriate host pool name.
- (Applicable only for the NAS-Data-Protection policy type) In the Volume field, Select volume backed up for NAS devices.
Volume-level filtering only fetches the top-level directories of the NAS-Data-Protection volume backup. Volume-level filtering is applicable only if the top-level directory is a volume. In such a case, you can select individual backup images with the Backup images option in the Search by option.
- From the Current status of malware scan, select one of the following:
Not scanned
Not infected
Infected
All
- Click Scan for malware.
There are more than 100 images in your search. Unable to scan more than 100 images. Adjust the date range and try again.
- After the scan is initiated, the Malware Scan Progress is displayed. Following are the status fields:
Not scanned
Not infected
Infected
Failed
Note:
When we hover on failed status, the tool tip displays the reason for failed scan.
The backup images which failed in validation, are ignored. Malware scanning is supported for the backup images that are stored on storage with instant access capability for the supported policy type only.
Pending
In progress