Defining Applications

To define an application:

1. Log on to the CipherTrust Manager GUI as administrator.

2. Open Application Data Protection.

3. In the left pane, click Applications. The list of applications is displayed on the screen.

4. On the Applications page, click Create Application. The Create Application wizard is displayed. Follow the steps to complete the setup.

   1. Add General Info

   2. Configure Parameters

   3. Create and Associate Policy

   4. Confirmation

Add General Info

1. Specify a unique Name for the application.

2. Select Connector Type from the drop-down list. Currently, only DPG is supported.

3. Click Next to go to the Settings screen.

Before proceeding to next steps ensure that the NAE interface with TLS, verify client cert, user name taken from client cert, auth request is optional mode is created on the CipherTrust Manager. Refer to CipherTrust Manager Interfaces for detailed instructions.

Configure Parameters

1. On the Settings screen, configure the following parameters.

   1. Network Configuration Parameter

      Field	Description	Mandatory	Default
      NAE Interface Port	Select interface of the NAE server. Only the interfaces with TLS, verify client cert, user name taken from client cert, auth request is optional mode are supported. The firewall rules for this interface must allow communication.	Yes	No default

      After selecting the NAE interface, you can choose to ignore rest of the configurations steps and instead use default values to define your application. To do so, click Next.

   2. SSL Configuration

      Field	Description	Mandatory	Default
      Select a local CA	Select the CA to authenticate the user defined in the Common Name. The CA must be associated with the interface selected in the previous step.	No	CipherTrust Root CA
      Verify SSL Certificate	Flag to enable client to verify the IP address/hostname against the Common Name (CN) or the Subject Alternative Name (SAN) in the server certificate presented by the CipherTrust Manager when communicating over NAE-XML.	No	Disabled
      TLS to Appserver	Allows DPG and the Application Server to communicate over TLS. If enabled, following parameters are required: — TLS Enabled: Defines whether to enable TLS. Set to true to allow DPG to communicate with the upstream server over TLS. Set to false to use TCP. — TLS Skip Verify: If set to false, DPG verifies the upstream server certificates.	No	By default, TLS Enabled and TLS Skip Verify parameters are enabled

   3. CSR Parameters

      Field	Description	Mandatory	Default
      Common Name	Select the user from the drop-down list. This is the DPG user who will interact with CM over NAE-XMl. Note: The selected user must exist in the root domain.	No	No default
      City	Name of the city.	No	No default
      Country	Name of the country.	No	No default
      State	Name of the state.	No	No default
      Organization Name	Organization name.	No	No default
      Organization Unit	Organization unit.	No	No default
      Email	Valid email id.	No	No default
      Certificate Duration	Validity period of a client certificate.	No	730

   4. Logging

      Field	Description	Mandatory	Default
      Log Level	The level of logging to determine verbosity of clients logs. Options — ERROR — WARN — INFO — DEBUG	No	WARN
      Log Type	Type of the log. The log type for DPG is Console.	Not configurable	Console

   5. Connection Configuration

      Field	Description	Mandatory	Default
      Maximum Idle Connection	Specifies the maximum number of idle (keep-alive) connections for all hosts. A value of 0 means no limit.	No	10000
      Maximum Idle Connection Per Host	Specifies the maximum idle (keep-alive) connections to keep for each host.	No	10000
      Dial Timeout	Specifies the maximum duration (in seconds) the DPG server will wait for a connection with the Application Server to succeed.	No	10
      Dial Keep Alive	Specifies the interval (in seconds) between keep-alive probes for an active network connection.	No	10
      Connection Idle Timeout	The time a connection is allowed to be idle in the connection pool before it gets automatically closed.	No	600000
      Connection Retry Interval	The amount of time to wait before trying to reconnect to a disabled server.	No	600000
      Connection Timeout	Connection timeout value for clients.	No	60000
      Connection Read Timeout	Read timeout value for clients.	No	7000
      Use Persistent Connections	Whether the persistent connections is enabled. Options — true — false	No	True
      Size of Connection Pool	The maximum number of connections that can persist in connection pool.	No	300
      Load Balancing Algorithm	Determines how the client selects a Key Manager from a load balancing group. Options — round-robin — random	No	round-robin
      Cluster Synchronization Delay	The total amount of time to spend trying to make requests on keys go to the same device the key create or latest key modify went.	No	170
      Heartbeat Interval	Time interval (in seconds) after which the client needs to send heartbeat notification to the CipherTrust Manager to get updated policies and configurations.	No	300
      Heartbeat Timeout Count	Number of missed heartbeats after which the client mark a CipherTrust Manager inactive.	No	-1

      Tip

      Heartbeat is a mechanism that notifies a client about any change in policies and configurations. The client sends the heartbeat to the CipherTrust Manager indicating that it is alive. In response, the CipherTrust Manager notifies client about any changes in the configurations and policies.To know more about the heartbeat parameters, refer to Heartbeat Configuration.

   6. Local Encryption Parameters

      Field	Description	Mandatory	Default
      Symmetric Key Cache Enabled	Determines whether the symmetric key caching feature is enabled.	Not configurable	Always enabled
      Symmetric Key Cache Expiry	Determines the minimum amount of time a key can be cached.	No	43200

2. Click Next to go to Policy page.

Create and Associate Policy

1. On the DPG Policy page, click Create Endpoint.

2. On the Create Endpoint screen, perform the following steps:

   1. Enter the API URL. This is the URL of the application for which the DPG will protect the data.

   2. Select Method from the drop-down list. Supported methods are:

      • POST

      • GET

      • PUT

      • PATCH

      • DELETE

      Note

      You must configure JSON path/URL parameters separately for each method.

   3. Click Create Token to configure JSON path/URL. For same method, you can configure Request and Response simultaneously.

   4. On the Create Token in Request, enter/select the following details.

      Field	Description
      Name	Specify the complete JSON path/URL parameters to be protected/revealed.
      Location	Location of the data. Possible options — JSON: If data to protect is in JSON body — URL: If data to be protected is in URL parameters.
      Operation	Cryptographic operation to be performed. Possible options — Protect — Reveal
      Protection Policy	Policy used to protect/reveal a piece of data. Select Protection policy form the drop-down list. Refer to Configuring Protection Polices for details.

      Caution

      If a set of data is already protected with a protection policy, ensure to reveal the data with the same protection policy.

   5. Click Create. The newly created policy is listed on the DPG Policy page.

   Now, to configure JSON path/URL parameters for other methods, click Create Endpoint and repeat steps 1 to 5 else, click Next to go to the Confirmation screen.

   The below diagrams show that different methods require separate endpoint configurations.

   

   

Confirmation

1. On the Create Application page, verify the application details. The Confirmation screen displays general information, settings, and DPG policy.

2. If you want to modify any detail, click Edit and update the details.

3. Click Create. At this step, a Registration Token is returned. The clients will use this token to get themselves registered on the CipherTrust Manager.

4. Click Close to exit the setup. The newly defined application is added to the list of Applications.