Configuring LDAP authentication

Kaspersky CyberTrace supports LDAP user authentication to allow logging in as a domain user. This section explains how to configure this type of authentication by using Kaspersky CyberTrace Web.

Kaspersky CyberTrace supports the use of Active Directory only if the domain controller is running Windows. The use of Active Directory with Linux-based domain controllers is possible, but not guaranteed.

The LDAP section allows you to perform the following actions:

• Enable LDAP authentication
• Test the connection to the LDAP server
• Specify connection settings
• Configure accounts filtering

Enabling LDAP authentication

To enable LDAP authentication,

Click the LDAP auth enabled toggle button.

The LDAP server will now be used for user authentication.

When LDAP authentication is enabled, you still can interact with Kaspersky CyberTrace under a local user account.

Testing the connection to the LDAP server

Go through the procedure below to make sure that a connection to the LDAP server is established.

To test the connection to the LDAP server:

1. Click the Test connection with LDAP link.

   The Test connection with LDAP window opens.

2. Specify the following settings:
   • User name for test connection
   • User password for test connection
3. Click Test.

A connection test can be performed only if you specified all the necessary settings for connecting to the server.

Connection settings

In the Connection settings section of the LDAP tab, you can specify the following settings:

• IP address or FQDN (fully qualified domain name) and port of the LDAP server

  This setting is stored in the AuthenticationServer > ConnectionString element of the kl_feed_service.conf file.

• SSL-secured connection

  You can enable the use of a secure connection to the LDAP server by using Kaspersky CyberTrace Web.

  This setting is stored in the useEncryption attribute of the AuthenticationServer > ConnectionString element of the kl_feed_service.conf file.

  On Linux, if secure connection is enabled, Kaspersky CyberTrace uses certificates from /etc/ssl/certs to authenticate the LDAP server.

• Path to the LDAP database

  The path to the database containing user accounts that can access Kaspersky CyberTrace.

Accounts filtering

The Accounts filtering section contains filtering rules for administrator and analyst accounts.

You can configure the following properties:

• Account format

  You can select one of two formats:

  • User Principal Name

    If this option is selected, users must provide a user name that is not an email address when performing authentication (for example user, but not user@domain.com).

  • SAM Account Name

    If this option is selected, users must provide a user name in the following format when performing authentication: Domain\User.

• Administrator accounts filter

  The filter for LDAP user accounts that defines which users must be assigned the Administrator role depending on their common name in Active Directory.

  If this value is not specified, all users who login using LDAP authentication and pass the analyst account filter will be assigned the Analyst role.

  This setting is stored in the AuthenticationServers > AdministratorAccountsFilter element of the kl_feed_service.conf file.

• Analyst account filter

  The filter for LDAP user accounts that defines which users must be assigned the Analyst role depending on their common name in Active Directory.

  If this value is not specified, all users who login using LDAP authentication and do not pass the administrator account filter will be assigned the Analyst role.

  This setting is stored in the AuthenticationServers > AnalystAccountsFilter element of the kl_feed_service.conf file.

  As an example, in the figure below the filters are configured so that the users who are members of the Admins group will be assigned the Administrator role, and the users who are members of either the Operators or the Analysts group will be assigned the Analyst role.

  

  Example of accounts filters

If the AdministratorAccountsFilter and AnalystAccountsFilter elements of the kl_feed_service.conf file contain values, and the user that is trying to log in is not included in any of the specified groups, Kaspersky CyberTrace will return an error and deny access to the web user interface for this user.

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