Credential rotation
Replacing a leaked key or password with a fresh one, rather than only hiding the old one.
Learn it through a story
- The Group Project Repo (Cybersecurity for Juniors 2, Ch 3)
Related terms
- Containment Isolating an infected device to stop an attack from spreading further.
- Credential The username-and-password (or similar) pair that lets you into an account.
- Credential reuse Using the same password on more than one account.
- Credential stuffing Automatically trying leaked email-password pairs from one breach against many other sites.
- CTF (Capture The Flag) A legal competition built around finding planted security flaws in purpose-built systems.
- CVSS Common Vulnerability Scoring System, a standard way of rating vulnerability severity.