Two-Factor Authentication for CyberArk Privileged Account Security Solution

These instructions assume that you already have Active Directory authentication working with CyberArk Privileged Account Security Solution. Use Duo's LDAP proxy with CyberArk instead of RADIUS when you want to continue using LDAP group lookup to assign privileges in CyberArk Privileged Account Security.

First Steps

To integrate Duo with your CyberArk Privileged Account Security Solution environment, you will need to install a local proxy service on a machine within your network. Before proceeding, you should locate (or set up) a system on which you will install the Duo Authentication Proxy. The proxy supports Windows and Linux systems (in particular, we recommend Windows Server 2012 R2 or later, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 or later, CentOS 6 or later, or Debian 6 or later).

Then you'll need to:

1. Sign up for a Duo account.
2. Log in to the Duo Admin Panel and navigate to Applications.
3. Click Protect an Application and locate CyberArk Privileged Account Security LDAP/RADIUS in the applications list. Click Protect this Application to get your integration key, secret key, and API hostname. See Getting Started for help.

Install the Duo Authentication Proxy

The Duo Authentication Proxy can be installed on a physical or virtual host. We recommend a system with at least 1 CPU, 200 MB disk space, and 4 GB RAM (although 1 GB RAM is usually sufficient).

Configure the Proxy

After the installation completes, you will need to configure the proxy.

The Duo Authentication Proxy configuration file is named authproxy.cfg, and is located in the conf subdirectory of the proxy installation. With default installation paths, the proxy configuration file will be located at:

The configuration file is formatted as a simple INI file. Section headings appear as:

[section]

Individual properties beneath a section appear as:

name=value

The Authentication Proxy may include an existing authproxy.cfg with some example content. For the purposes of these instructions, however, you should delete the existing content and start with a blank text file. We recommend using WordPad or another text editor instead of Notepad when editing the config file on Windows.

Configure the Proxy for Your Primary Authenticator

In this step, you'll set up the Proxy's primary authenticator — the system which will validate users' existing passwords. The primary authentication source for Duo LDAP must be another LDAP directory. In most cases, this means configuring the Proxy to communicate with Active Directory.

Active Directory

To use Active Directory/LDAP as your primary authenticator, add an [ad_client] section to the top of your config file. Add the following properties to the section:

Required

search_dn=DC=example,DC=com

Optional

security_group_dn=CN=DuoVPNUsers,OU=Groups,DC=example,DC=com

For example:

[ad_client]
host=1.2.3.4
host_2=1.2.3.5
service_account_username=duoservice
service_account_password=password1
search_dn=DC=example,DC=com
security_group_dn=CN=DuoVPNUsers,OU=Groups,DC=example,DC=com

For advanced Active Directory configuration, see the full Authentication Proxy documentation.

Configure the Proxy As a LDAP Server

Next, you need to set up the Authentication Proxy to handle LDAP authentication requests. To do so, create a ldap_server_auto section with the following properties:

Required

A completed config file, using Active Directory as the primary authenticator, should look something like:

[ad_client]
host=1.2.3.4  
service_account_username=ServiceAcct  
service_account_password=Password1  
search_dn=cn=Users,dc=example,dc=com  

[ldap_server_auto]
ikey=DIXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
skey=XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
api_host=api-XXXXXXXX.duosecurity.com
failmode=safe  
ssl_key_path=ldap_server.key  
ssl_cert_path=ldap_server.pem
exempt_primary_bind=false
exempt_ou_1=CN=ServiceAcct,CN=users,DC=example,DC=com
allow_searches_after_bind=false

Make sure to save your configuration file when done.

Start the Proxy

net start DuoAuthProxy

net stop DuoAuthProxy & net start DuoAuthProxy

# /opt/duoauthproxy/bin/authproxyctl start

# /opt/duoauthproxy/bin/authproxyctl status

# /opt/duoauthproxy/bin/authproxyctl restart

If you modify your authproxy.cfg configuration after initial setup, you'll need to stop and restart the Duo Authentication Proxy service or process for your change to take effect.

Configure the LDAP Directory in CyberArk Privileged Account Security Solution

Configure Password Vault Web Access

1. Log on to Password Vault Web Access via your browser as the predefined Administrator user. This is typically accessed at https://yourvaultserver/PasswordVault.

2. Click on ADMINISTRATION at the top to navigate to the "System Configuration" page. Then, click on LDAP Integration in the "Component Settings" table.

3. Go to LDAP → Directories → the AD directory currently used for Privileged Account Security access. Verify that the BindUserName is set to the full DN of the service account user (e.g. CN=ServiceAcct,CN=users,DC=example,DC=com) and that it matches the exempt_ou_1 value you configured in the ldap_server_auto section of your Duo proxy server's authproxy.cfg file earlier .

4. Go to LDAP → Directories → the AD directory currently used for Privileged Account Security access → Hosts. Right-click Hosts and select Add Host.

5. In the Properties table, the required information about the Duo LDAP proxy host (example shows adding Duo Authentication Proxy host to the "Duo LDAP" existing directory with the IP 10.1.10.101 using LDAP/389):

   ServerName	The IP address or fully-qualified DNS host name of your Duo Authentication Proxy server.
   ServerPort	Duo Authentication Proxy server port for incoming LDAP requests. Default port is '389' for CLEAR and STARTTLS and '636' for LDAPS. If using STARTTLS or LDAPS then the ssl_cert_path and ssl_key_path options must be configured in the Authentication Proxy LDAP configuration above.
   SSLConnect	Select No for LDAP or Yes for LDAPS and STARTTLS.

6. Right-click the new Duo LDAP Proxy host in the "Hosts" tree and select Move Up. Repeat until the Duo host is the first one in the list.

7. Click Apply in the upper left, and then click OK.

   

For additional information please refer to the "LDAP Authentication" section in the "CyberArk Privileged Account Security Installation Guide".

Test Your Setup

Navigate to the Privileged Account Security web login page and click the LDAP directory option to which you added the Duo LDAP proxy host.

Enter your Active Directory username and password. When you enter your username and password, you will receive an automatic push or phone callback. Alternatively you can add a comma (",") to the end of your password, followed by a Duo passcode.

For example, given a username 'bob', with password 'password123' and a Duo passcode '123456', you would enter:

username: bob
password: password123,123456

In addition, you may also enter the name of an out-of-band factor in lieu of a passcode. You may choose from the following factor names:

Returning to the previous example, if you wanted to use Duo Push (rather than a passcode) to authenticate, you would enter:

username: bob
password: password123,push

You can also specify a number after the factor name if you have more than one device enrolled. So you can enter phone2 or push2 if you have two phones enrolled and you want the Duo Push or phone call request to go to your second phone instead.

Troubleshooting

Need some help? Take a look at our CyberArk Knowledge Base articles or Community discussions. For further assistance, contact Support.

Next Steps

To further secure access to the CyberArk Privileged Account Security Solution, you can remove any LDAP hosts that aren't Duo LDAP proxy hosts or disable alternate authentication methods. See the "Authenticating to the Privileged Account Security Solution" section in the "CyberArk Privileged Account Security Installation Guide" for guidance.

Network Diagram

1. Primary authentication initiated to CyberArk Privileged Account Security
2. CyberArk Privileged Account Security sends authentication request to Duo Security’s authentication proxy
3. Primary authentication using Active Directory
4. Duo authentication proxy connection established to Duo Security over TCP port 443
5. Secondary authentication via Duo Security’s service
6. Duo authentication proxy receives authentication response
7. CyberArk Privileged Account Security access granted