NetBackup and Veritas Appliances Hardening Guide
- Top recommendations to improve your NetBackup and Veritas appliances security posture
- Steps to protect Flex Appliance
- Managing multifactor authentication
- Managing single sign-on (SSO)
- About lockdown mode
- Configuring an isolated recovery environment using the web UI
- Steps to protect NetBackup Appliance
- About single sign-on (SSO) authentication and authorization
- About authentication using smart cards and digital certificates
- About data encryption
- About forwarding logs to an external server
- Steps to protect NetBackup
- About multifactor authentication
- Configure NetBackup for single sign-on (SSO)
- Configure user authentication with smart cards or digital certificates
- Workflow to configure multi-person authorization for NetBackup operations
- 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
- Workflow for external KMS configuration
- 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 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
- About protecting the MSDP catalog
- How to set up malware scanning
- About backup anomaly detection
Enforcing multifactor authentication
You can enforce multifactor authentication for users in the Flex Appliance Console, so that they must configure it by the date that you select.
Note:
Remote AD and LDAP user groups are not supported when multifactor authentication is enforced. Once you enforce it, users in these groups can no longer sign in.
You cannot enforce multifactor authentication for the hostadmin user in the Flex Appliance Shell.
Before you can enforce multifactor authentication, the following prerequisites must be met:
The appliance date and time must be set with NTP.
You and at least one other user must have the security administrator role. At least one of the users with the security administrator role must be a local user.
You must have multifactor authentication configured on your account.
To enforce multifactor authentication
- Sign in to the Flex Appliance Console as a security administrator. Click the Settings icon in the top-right corner of the page and then click Enforce multifactor authentication.
- On the Multifactor authentication enforcement page, click Enforce.
- Select a start date within the next 90 days.
Caution:
Once you enforce multifactor authentication, you can't cancel the enforcement or extend the start date past 90 days.
- Click Enforce.
If you need to change the start date, return to the Multifactor authentication enforcement page and click .