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
- 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
- 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
- Anomaly detection
- Section IV. Malware scanning
- Introduction
- Malware tools
- Configurations
- Performing malware scan
- Managing scan tasks
- Malware scan configuration parameters
Actions for malware scanned images
Once you scan the backup images for malware detection, a tabular data is available on the Malware detection home page. See View the malware scan status.
For each backup image, the following quick configuration are available:
Expire all copies
- On the left, select Detection and reporting > Malware detection.
- For the desired scan result, select Expire all copies from the Actions menu.
- Confirm to expire all the copies of the selected backup image.
Note:
This option is available only for infected scan results.
View infected files
- On the left, select Detection and reporting > Malware detection.
- For the desired scan result, select View infected files from the Actions menu.
Note:
This option is available only for infected scan results and scan type 'Recovery'.
- In the Infected files table, search or the desired file, if needed.
- If needed, click Export list.
Note:
A list of infected files from the selected malware scanning result is exported in
.csv
format. The file name is of following format:backupid_infected_files_timestamp.csv
Export infected files list
- On the left, select Detection and reporting > Malware detection.
- For the desired malware affected, select Export Infected files list from the Actions menu.
Note:
A
.csv
file contains backup time, names of the infected files and virus information.
Export unscannable files list
- On the left, select Detection and reporting > Malware detection.
- For the desired malware affected, select Export unscannable files list from the Actions menu.
Note:
A
.csv
file contains the list of files which are skipped by the malware scanner due to issues such as file input/output error, encrypted (password protected) files and so on.
Cancel malware scan
- On the left, select Detection and reporting > Malware detection.
- For desired scan result, click Cancel malware scan from the Actions menu.
Note:
You can cancel the malware scan only from in progress and pending states.
- Click Cancel scan to confirm.
Note:
The status changes to Cancellation in progress.
Note:
The
is not supported for scan results with scan type 'Recovery'.Rescan image
- On the left, select Detection and reporting > Malware detection.
- For desired scan result, click Rescan image from the Actions menu.
- Click Rescan to confirm.
- In case of bulk rescan, when you select one or more image with different or empty scanner host pool, you need to select a new scanner host pool.
Click Rescan image
From the Select a malware scanner host pool pop-up select a new scan host pool.
Note:
New scan host pool is applicable for all the selected images for this rescan.
Click Rescan to confirm.
Rescan (and resume) is not supported for scan results with scan type recovery.
- In case of rescan of failed/cancelled jobs, scanning would be triggered from the point of failure (resumed) instead of complete scan under the following conditions:
If the value of Date of scan is more then 48 hours, then the job would not be resumed and full scan would be initiated. This is to ensure that malware signatures used for scan does not differ significantly.
Supported for Standard/MS-Windows backup images which has large number of files (>500k) or more than one stream in case of DNAS.
Instant Access must have succeeded for the failed job.
Resume would identify first IA capable copy to scan, which can be different from the copy selected for the initial scan request.
Once resumed existing scan result would be moved from failed to pending and subsequently to in-progress state. And progress update could continue from the point of failure. In case of complete rescan new scan result would be displayed. If user needs to perform a complete scan, then it can be triggered using on demand scan options.
Delete scan results
- On the left, select Detection and reporting > Malware detection.
- For scan results which are in failed or cancelled state can be deleted manually from UI by clicking the Delete scan results option from the Actions menu.
- Click Yes to confirm the deletion of the selected scan results.
Note:
In one go a maximum of 20 scan results can be selected for deletion.
View details
- On the left, select Detection and reporting > Malware detection.
- Details for backup images with individual batch level can be viewed by clicking the View details option from the Actions menu.
Note:
The View details option is available only for scan results which are in failed or in progress state.
- On the View details page, from the action menu, you can Copy failure details or Copy the scan results to the clipboard.
- Click Close.