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
- Minimizing security configuration risk
- 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
- KMS operations using command-line interface (CLI)
- 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
- How to setup Malware scanning
- Instant Access configurations
- Malware tools configurations
- Scan host configurations
- Prerequisites for a scan host
- Configuring scan host
- Configuring a scan host pool
- Managing a scan host
- Performing malware scan
- Managing scan tasks
- Malware scan configuration parameters
- Troubleshooting
Clean file recovery for virtual workload (VMware)
To restore from malware-affected images, you must have the Administrator role or equivalent RBAC permissions.
To recover a VMware asset that is affected by malware, refer to the following procedure:
VMware single file restore from recovery point (with agent and agentless)
- On left pane select Workload > VMware.
- Search and click on the virtual machine to be recovered.
- On the Recovery points tab, select the date for recovery point.
- Select Allow the selection of recovery points that are malware-affected. This option only displays if there are recovery points that contain malware-affected images.
Note:
To restore from malware-affected recovery points, you must have the Administrator role or equivalent RBAC permissions.
- Click Recover and select the type of recovery as Restore files and folders. Then follow the prompts.
Note:
NetBackup now provides support for VMware single file restore clean recovery by selecting the Allow recovery of files infected by malware option in the Recovery options. This option overrides the default behavior.
For more details on recovering a VM, see the NetBackup for VMware Administrator's Guide.
To recover a specific recovery point that is affected by malware, refer to the following procedure:
Single file restore using recovery flow (with agent)
- On the left, click Recovery.
- Under Regular recovery, click Start recovery.
- Select the following properties:
Policy type
The type of policy that is associated with the backup you want to restore.
Select the policy type as VMware.
Source client
The client that performed the backup. Under the Virtual machines search tab, select the virtual machine and click Apply.
Destination client
The client to which you want to restore the backup.
Restore type
The type of restore that you want to perform. The restore types that are available depend on the policy type that you choose.
Note:
Clean recovery is supported only for normal backups.
- Click Next.
- Edit the Date range.
Or, click Use backup history to view and select specific images. Click Apply to add the selected images for recovery.
Note:
The table displays all the backup image details for selected time frame. You can filter and sort the images based on the malware scan results, schedule type, policy type or policy name.
- To include any malware-infected images in the recovery, select Allow the selection of images that are malware-affected.
- On the left, expand the Source client directory. Select any directories that you want to restore. Or in the right pane, select any files or directories. Click Next.
- Select the recovery target.
- To restore any files that are malware-infected, click Allow recovery of files infected by malware. Otherwise, NetBackup only restores the files that are scanned and free from malware.
- Select any other recovery options that you want. Then click Next.
- Review the recovery settings and then click Start recovery.