Features

Note

This aims to be a quick overview of the main supported features of The Bastion, focusing on use cases. For a better introduction about the basic features, please refer to the front page of the documentation.

Warning

Documentation might not be present yet for all the features below.

  • Personal and group access schemes with group roles delegation to ensure teams autonomy without security trade-offs

  • SSH protocol break between the ingress and egress connections (see other security measures)

  • Self-reliance achieved through virtually no external dependencies (see other security measures)

  • Interactive session recording (in standard ttyrec files)

  • Non-interactive session recording (stdout and stderr through ttyrec)

  • Extensive logging support through syslog for easy SIEM consumption

  • Supports MOSH on the ingress connection side

  • Supports scp passthrough, to upload and/or download files from/to remote servers

  • Supports netconf SSH subsystem passthrough

  • Supports Yubico PIV keys attestation checking and enforcement on the ingress connection side

  • Supports realms, to create a trust between two bastions of possibly two different companies, splitting the authentication and authorization phases while still enforcing local policies

  • Supports SSH password autologin on the egress side for legacy devices not supporting pubkey authentication, while still forcing proper pubkey authentication on the ingress side

  • Supports telnet password autologin on the egress side for ancient devices not supporting SSH, while still forcing proper SSH pubkey authentication on the ingress side

  • Supports HTTPS proxying with man-in-the-middle authentication and authorization handling, for ingress and egress password decoupling (mainly useful for network device APIs)