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
About file hash search with malware hash
For a NetBackup domain that is not managed by Alta View and with a configured file hash server, NetBackup version 10.5.0.1 or later provides the feature of file hash search with malware hash.
This feature complements the existing malware scanning service and provides the capabilities of identifying malware from backup images. When malware scan reports an infected status, an automated file hash search job navigates through the NetBackup images to identify an IOC (indicator of compromise).
When a malware is found by malware scanning, the file hash value (SHA-256) of the malware is stored in Enterprise Media Manager (EMM) database if no matching record exists in the database.
Every 8 hours, the most recent malware hash values (max 10,000 records) from the database are submitted to the triggered file hash search job request with MALWARE as the search tag. The result of the file hash search job is available in the Activity monitor of NetBackup Web UI. An audit message that contains the file hash search job ID and file hash search request ID is also generated. The message can be found under the Audit Events tab of Security events menu in the Security pane of NetBackup Web UI. Use the FILE_HASH_SEARCH_INTERVAL_SECONDS option to configure the interval between search jobs that are triggered.
Every 24 hours, the records stored in NetBackup database that have not been updated for the past 30 days are removed for maintenance purpose. Use the MALWARE_HASH_RETENTION_DAYS option to configure the number of days when a malware hash is treated as outdated.
See Malware hash configuration parameters.
Note the following:
The file hash search computation is supported for the following types of backup policies:
NAS-Data-Protection
Windows
Standard
The file hash search job may report a matching malware if there is any for the backup images of the above types of backup policies.