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Identity & Access

Short-Lived Credentials

Also: ephemeral credentials, temporary tokens

Credentials that expire after minutes or hours, so a stolen one stops working quickly.

In more detail

Issuing a fresh token per task shrinks the window in which a leak matters and removes the long-lived secret that attackers search for. Cloud identity federation and workload identity are common ways to do this.

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