Client Side Encryption Prerequisite steps

Prerequisites

This document will guide you through the prerequisite steps needed to get ready for deploying the CSE service in your environment. 

Specific steps for this section include:

• Sync your Google Workspace tenant with Virtru
• Follow steps to install and provision the Virtru CKS server (Optional)
• Gather the required information from your IDP
• Generate SSL Certificates
• Provision CSE Server
• Configure firewall rules
• Configure DNS
• Next steps

Sync your Google Workspace tenant with Virtru

If you have not already done so, please follow this guide to sync your Google Workspace domain with Virtru, this is a prerequisite for provisioning your Virtru CKS and CSE servers:

https://support.virtru.com/hc/en-us/articles/360006721433-Install-Virtru-for-Google-Workspace-Domains-to-Perform-a-Sync-Admin-Guide-

Gather the required information from your IDP

https://support.google.com/a/answer/10743588?hl=en&ref_topic=10742486

Generate SSL Certificates 

As part of the CSE configuration, you will need to include a SSL Certificate and Private key for the domain which will be used for CSE. This step should be completed before you start the CSE deployment.

It is required that you use certificate partner in order to obtain the CA Signed SSL Certificate & Key. 

It is important to know what the FQDN will be for the CSE domain, Virtru recommends using https://csesrv.yourdomain.com - this will be the FQDN used in the generation of the Certificate and Key.

Your SSL Certificate will be a combined value of your Certificate, Intermediate, and Root cert(s) that you obtain from your CA in a server.cert file. 

If your certs are provided to you by your CA in separate files use the following command to combine them into the expected server.cert file format. 

• cat [path-to-certificate] [path-to-intermediate-cert-1] ... [path-to-root-cert] > server.cert

Your SSL Private key will be the same key that you used to request your certs in a server.key file.

• cat [path-to-private-key] > server.key

CSE service install options

Provision CSE Server

• CKS and CSE must be on separate hosts (CKS Optional) 

• Docker supported version of Linux
  • https://docs.docker.com/engine/install/

• Cloud based or on-premise

  • Example: AWS, GCP

• Minimum specs: 2 cpu, 4gb RAM, 40gb hard drive

• Install docker based on your linux distro
  • Quick install 
    

    sudo curl -sSL https://get.docker.com/ | sh

Helm install Kubernetes cluster

Follow our Kubernetes Cluster guide

Configure firewall rules

• CSE:

  • Inbound:

    • Open on port 443

      • Needed for:

        • Traffic from end users in Drive

        • (Requests come from the end users desktops directly, nothing from Google)

    • SSH on port 22 (optional)

      Note:

      As a Google requirement, inbound traffic to the CSE server does need to be accessible and open due to the reasons stated above.

  • Outbound

    • Open on port 443

      • Needed for:

        • Download of Docker image

        • Access to Virtru ACM endpoints

          • api.virtru.com/acm
          • api.virtru.com/accounts
        • Access to Customer hosted CKS server (CKS Optional)
          • cks.customer.com

Configure DNS

• CSE:

  • Create an A record that points to the server hosting the application. Needs to be fully qualified domain name, publicly accessible, and needs a CA signed SSL certificate.

    • Example:

      • csesrv.customer.com

  • Optional: Only needed if following customer identity management, 

    • Create a CNAME record for the .well-known/cse-configuration file. This record must be named cse.customer_domain because this is where Google has configured Docs to look for these files.

Next steps:

Installation steps server

Installation steps Kubernetes

CSE Firewall Access Diagram (with CKS)

CSE Firewall Access Diagram (without CKS)