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Assessment Title
Rule Text
The Infoblox Grid Master must be configured as a stealth (hidden) domain DNS service member to protect the Key Signing Key (KSK) residing on it.
Description
Discussion Text
The private keys in the KSK and Zone Signing Keys (ZSK) key pairs must be protected from unauthorized access. If possible, the private keys should be stored offline (with respect to the internet-facing, DNSSEC-aware name server) in a physically secure, non-network-accessible machine along with the zone file master copy.
This strategy is not feasible in situations in which the DNSSEC-aware name server has to support dynamic updates. To support dynamic update transactions, the DNSSEC-aware name server (which usually is a primary authoritative name server) must have both the zone file master copy and the private key corresponding to the ZSK (ZSK-private) online to immediately update the signatures for the updated resource record (RR) sets. The private key corresponding to the KSK (KSK-private) can still be kept offline.
On Infoblox, Domain Name System Security Extension (DNSSEC) ZSKs are stored on either a Hardware Security Module or the Infoblox Grid Master. By configuring the Grid Master as "stealth" to prevent client communications to the Infoblox Grid Master and ensuring the Grid Master uses an encrypted management tunnel to update DNS members serving DNSSEC signed zones, the DNSSEC keys are protected.
This strategy is not feasible in situations in which the DNSSEC-aware name server has to support dynamic updates. To support dynamic update transactions, the DNSSEC-aware name server (which usually is a primary authoritative name server) must have both the zone file master copy and the private key corresponding to the ZSK (ZSK-private) online to immediately update the signatures for the updated resource record (RR) sets. The private key corresponding to the KSK (KSK-private) can still be kept offline.
On Infoblox, Domain Name System Security Extension (DNSSEC) ZSKs are stored on either a Hardware Security Module or the Infoblox Grid Master. By configuring the Grid Master as "stealth" to prevent client communications to the Infoblox Grid Master and ensuring the Grid Master uses an encrypted management tunnel to update DNS members serving DNSSEC signed zones, the DNSSEC keys are protected.
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