Configuration

This section describes the licensing, software, and hardware requirements.

Licensing

CipherTrust Intelligent Protection is not a licensed product. However, you must acquire the following licenses in order to use it:

• CipherTrust Manager

• CipherTrust Data Discovery and Classification

• CipherTrust Transparent Encryption

Supported Data Stores

For the data store, CipherTrust Intelligent Protection only supports the following:

Supported Editors

This section lists the editors that have been tested to work fine with CipherTrust Intelligent Protection on Windows and Linux platforms.

Windows

Linux

Software Requirements

The Remediation system consists of the following products. The table below lists the minimum versions of the software packages that are required for CipherTrust Intelligent Protection:

Hardware Requirements

When using Standard Policies, remediation is performed using a secondary copy of the file. Therefore, CipherTrust Intelligent Protection requires free disk space equal to the size of the largest file targeted for remediation.

Configure CipherTrust Manager

See the CipherTrust Manager documentation for details.

• Set up CipherTrust Manager with CipherTrust Data Discovery and Classification and CipherTrust Transparent Encryption

• Generate a Registration token required for CTE registration

Configure CTE

See the CTE documentation for details.

• Install supported CTE agent on a system where data needs to be protected, using the standard installation process

  Warning

  The option to enable LDT for CIFS/SMB based GuardPoints should be disabled on the CTE Windows agent for CIP.

  

• Complete the registration process using the token created with CipherTrust Manager

  Note

  The CTE client name MUST match the DDC Data Store IP Address or hostname. So be consistent while registering, use either use IP Address or hosname only as client name.

• Check the status of the CipherTrust Transparent Encryption client on CM to verify that the registration process has completed and the node is healthy.

• Configure the VI/VIM editor to prevent creation of temporary files, as it might conflict with the CIP functionality.

  Disable the creation of temporary files using the following settings in $HOME/.vimrc:

  • set nobackup: Prevents creation of backup files.

  • set nowritebackup: Prevents creation of backup files while editing files.

  • set noswapfile: Prevents creation of swap files.

Configure the Hosts file

If a customer does not have a centralized DNS server, the CTE agent may not be able to resolve the TDP Knox server's hostname. Therefore, for a CipherTrust Intelligent Protection TDP Knox cluster setup with HA enabled, you need to enter all of the Knox's nodes IP addresses and hostnames in the /etc/hosts file.

Following is an example of a hosts file setup for host name resolution:

Configure DDC

Install the DDC Agent on the same system that contains the local file system for the Data Store.

To configure the DDC agent:

1. Install the DDC agent using the installer binary.

2. At the prompt, type the following:

   • # er2-config -interactive

3. For the active node hostname or IP address, provide the CipherTrust Manager IP address to register the DDC agent with CipherTrust Manager.

   Note

   DDC requires connecting to the DDC Active node. If more than one CM node is in the cluster, activate DDC on the preferred node and obtain its IP address, as described in the DDC deployment guide.

   

4. Restart the DDC agent service on the VM, type:

   • # er2-agent -stop

   • # er2-agent -start

The DDC agent logs show the successful connection with CipherTrust Manager. Log path:

/var/lib/er2/agent.log

Configure CipherTrust Intelligent Protection

Following configuration are required to set up the environment for CipherTrust Intelligent Protection (CIP)

Configure TDP

1. Install the VM using the Thales Data Platform OVA file.

2. Follow the standard instructions and install Hadoop, Ambari and related services.

See the Thales Data Platform Installation Guide for more information on setting up and configuring Hadoop with an Ambari configuration.

Following are the required services on Thales Data Platform for the CIP:

• Phoenix Query Server

• Spark2

• Livy

Configure Knox

The Knox server uses SSL for secure communication and authentication. Make the following changes in the Knox server under Advanced topology:

<service>
  <role>LIVYSERVER</role>
  <url>http://<Livy-node>:8999</url>
</service>
<service>
  <role>AVATICA</role>
  <url>http://<PQS-1>:8765</url>
  <url>http://<PQS-2>:8765</url>
</service>

Hadoop – Console Configuration

Perform the following from the Hadoop console:

1. Copy hbase-site.xml file on Hbase Master node:

   • from: /etc/hbase/3.1.5.1-316/0/hbase-site.xml

   • to: /etc/spark2/3.1.5.1-316/0/

2. Create a directory in HDFS (e.g. /ddc) and grant read/write permissions for the following directories:

   • sudo -u hdfs hadoop fs -mkdir /ddc

   • sudo -u hdfs hadoop fs -chmod 0777 /ddc

   • sudo -u hdfs hadoop fs -chmod 0777 /user

   The /user directory name is fixed and cannot be changed. The /ddc directory is

   Note

   not fixed and can be changed.

Configure Connection Manager (CipherTrust Manager)

A Knox server is required for connecting with the PQS server. Configure Knox in the CM Connection Manager:

1. From the dashboard, click Access Management > Connections.

2. If the Knox server is not already configured, you must configure it manually:

   • Click Add Connection.

   • Click TDP.

   • Provide the hostname for the Thales Data Platform.

   • Enter the port: 8443.

   • Click Upload Certificate.

   • Upload the Knox Certificate.

Configure PQS (CTE)

The Apache Phoenix Query Server (PQS) is the metadata server for all of the remediation based GuardPoints. It communicates with the CipherTrust Transparent Encryption core services.

1. In CTE, click Admin Settings > PQS Services. The Knox setting is automatically fetched from the server.

2. Enter the PQS URI and schema. For the URI, input: /gateway/default/avatica

3. Click Save Changes.

Configure Hadoop Services (DDC)

To configure HDFS and Livy:

1. In DDC, click Settings > Hadoop Services. The Knox service should be pre-populated from DDC.

2. For the HDFS server, enter the URI as: /gateway/default/webhdfs/v1.

3. For Folder, enter the directory name, for example, /ddc, that you created in Hadoop – Console Configuration on the previous page, where DDC will store all of the remediated information.

4. For the Livy server, enter in the URI of the server as: /gateway/default/livy/v1.

5. Click Save Changes.

   Note

   Once configured, do not modify the Services or you will lose access to all of your collected data. Make sure the TDP node meets the system requirements for DDC.