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
RBAC features
The NetBackup web user interface provides the ability to apply role-based access control in your NetBackup environment. Use RBAC to provide access for the users that do not currently have access to NetBackup. Or, for current NetBackup users with administrator access you can provide limited access and permissions, based on their role in your organization.
For information on access control methods for the NetBackup Administration Console and access control and auditing information for root users and administrators, refer to the NetBackup Security and Encryption Guide.
Table: RBAC features
Feature | Description |
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Roles allow users to perform specific tasks | Add users to one or more default RBAC roles or create custom roles to fit the role of your users. Add a user to the Administrator role to give full NetBackup permissions to that user. See Default RBAC roles. |
Users can access NetBackup areas and the features that fit their role | RBAC users can perform common tasks for their business role, but are restricted from accessing other NetBackup areas and features. RBAC also controls the assets that users can view or manage. |
Auditing of RBAC events | NetBackup audits RBAC events. |
DR ready | RBAC settings are protected with the NetBackup catalog. |
Enhanced Auditing or authorization (auth.conf) configurations still available for older interfaces | Enhanced Auditing is supported across all interfaces. You can continue to use the authorization (auth.conf) configurations with the NetBackup Administration Console and the CLIs. With these older interfaces you can manage access to workflows that are not yet supported in the NetBackup web UI and NetBackup APIs. Note that the auth.conf file does not restrict access to the NetBackup web UI or the NetBackup APIs. |