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 SSL certification

The Secure Socket Layer (SSL) protocol creates an encrypted connection between the appliance web server and the LDAP server or other local servers. This type of connection allows for a more secure information transfer without the problems of eavesdropping, data tampering, or message forgery. To enable SSL on your NetBackup Appliance Web Console, you need an SSL certificate that identifies you and installs it on the appliance web server.

The appliance uses self-signed certificates for client and host validation. The key algorithm that is used to generate the SSL certificate key is SHA-256 with RSA. All low strength ciphers, such as SSLv2 and Diffie-Hellman are disabled.

Note:

Vulnerability reports such as SSL Certificate Cannot Be Trusted and SSL Self-Signed Certificate can be ignored, because the appliance is designed to use self-signed certificates.

You can also set the SSL certificates for an LDAP PAM Authentication module to establish a secure connection between the appliance LDAP PAM module and the LDAP server.

Third-party certificates

You can manually add and implement third-party certificates for the web service support. The appliance uses the Java Keystore (JKS) as the repository for security certificates. The certificates are used for SSL encryption.

To implement third-party certificates that you have created, contact Veritas Technical Support for assistance and inform the representative to reference the following documents:

  • Article 000103435 (for appliance software versions up to 2.6.1.2)

  • Article 000108157 (for appliance software versions 2.7.1 and later)