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
- 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 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
- 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
- Configuring 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
- 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
- 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
- Backup anomaly detection
- Section IV. Malware scanning
Ciphers used in NetBackup
This section lists the ciphers that NetBackup uses for secure communication.
Table: Ciphers used in NetBackup for web access
Product | Local account password encryption | Web access | |
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Connections | Enabled transmission ciphers | ||
NetBackup 10.x | NetBackup typically does not use local accounts. Instead, accounts that are defined on the local OS or an external identity provider (SAML, AD, or LDAP) are used. | TLSv1.2 | Web Services (ports 443 and 1556): ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_128_GCM_SHA256 DHE_RSA_WITH_AES_128_GCM_SHA256 ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 DHE_RSA_WITH_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 Secure communications (control and data channels): ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 RabbitMQ (port 13781): ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 DHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 |
Table: Ciphers used in NetBackup for authentication
Product | Local account password encryption | Authentication services connections | ||
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Active Directory Domain Controllers | LDAP authentication | Ciphers | ||
NetBackup 10.2 | NetBackup typically does not use local accounts. Instead, accounts that are defined on the local OS or an external identity provider (SAML, AD, or LDAP) are used. | If configured, NetBackup uses Openldap to connect directly to LDAP or AD servers. Both LDAP and LDAPS (LDAP over TLS) are supported | Simple authentication | ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 DHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 ECDHE-RSA-AES256-SHA384 ECDHE-RSA-AES256-SHA DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA |
Table: Ciphers used in NetBackup for data at rest encryption
Product | Local account password encryption | Data at rest encryption | |
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Hardware or software-based encryption | Ciphers | ||
NetBackup 10.x | NetBackup typically does not use local accounts. Instead, accounts that are defined on the local OS or an external identity provider (SAML, AD, or LDAP) are used. | Software based except for tape drive encryption | MSDP: AES-256-CTR Legacy cloud connector and Advanced Disk Crypt: AES-256-CFB Client encryption (selected by customer): AES-128-CFB (default) BF-CFB DES-EDE-CFB AES-256-CFB Tape drive encryption (hardware-based): AES-256 |