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Cyber vault hardening

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These are the additional recommendations to harden an ONTAP cyber vault. Please consult the ONTAP hardening guide below for more recommendations and procedures.

Cyber vault hardening recommendations

  • Isolate the cyber vault's management planes

  • Do not enable data LIFs on the destination cluster as they are an additional attack vector

  • On the destination cluster, limit intercluster LIF access to the source cluster with a service policy

  • Segment the management LIF on the destination cluster for limited access with a service policy and a bastion host

  • Restrict all data traffic from the source cluster to the cyber vault to allow only the ports required for SnapMirror traffic

  • Where possible, disable any unneeded management access methods within ONTAP to decrease the attack surface

  • Enable audit logging and remote log storage

  • Enable multi-admin verification and require verification from an admin outside your regular storage administrators (e.g. CISO staff)

  • Implement role-based access controls

  • Require administrative multifactor authentication for System Manager and ssh

  • Use token based authentication for scripts and REST API calls

Please refer to the ONTAP hardening guide, Multi-admin verification overview and ONTAP multifactor authentication guide for how to accomplish these hardening steps.