AppD Security Questions

[SSEAL]

Good afternoon,

I am very new to AppDynamics and have a lot of questions.

I am in the middle of setting up on-premises, self-hosted virtual appliances directly to ESXi hosts.

I have the hosts and am attempting to configure them and have the following questions.

I've also reviewed the online documentation for securing the platform, but do not see any references to any of my questions.  https://docs.appdynamics.com/appd/onprem/24.x/25.2/en/secure-the-platform

Where may I find information for the following?

1.  Enabling FIPS and its related settings?

2.  Enabling FIPS and its related settings on private synthetic agents?

3.  How to set up smart card authentication?

Any information you may provide is greatly appreciated.

Thank you,

Stuart

[livehybrid · Accepted solution]

Hi @SSEAL 

Regarding FIPS - Check out https://help.splunk.com/en/appdynamics-on-premises/analytics/25.4.0/analytics/configure-analytics/co... and see if this helps.

Regarding Smartcard auth - This isnt something natively supported however you might have some success by using an idP which would act as the broker for the authentication - Check out https://docs.appdynamics.com/accounts/en/global-account-administration/access-management/configure-s... for details on configurating SSO, from here you would need to determine if one of the idP can support your smartcard auth process. Do you already use an idP with your smartcards that can support SAML?

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[SSEAL]

Thank  you for the information.  It did provide some insight to FIPS and SmartCard.