113. How do you revoke leaked credentials?

In this episode, we discuss what to do if you accidentally leak your AWS credentials during a live stream. We explain the difference between temporary credentials and long-lived credentials, and how to revoke each type. For temporary credentials, we recommend using the AWS console to revoke sessions or creating an IAM policy to deny access. For long-lived credentials, you must deactivate and rotate the credentials. We also touch on using tools like HashiCorp Vault to manage credentials securely.

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🔖 Chapters:

00:00 Introduction to the scenario of accidentally leaking credentials during a live stream
01:24 Why leaked temporary credentials can still do damage before they expire
02:51 Explaining you cannot directly invalidate temporary credentials like you can access keys
03:18 How to modify the IAM role permissions for the temporary credentials
06:33 IAM Console option to revoke sessions for a specific role
08:21 Rotating long-lived credentials
09:14 Implications of using HashiCorp Vault to handle AWS credentials
09:52 Conclusions and call to action


In this episode, we mentioned the following resources:

Gist with example policy: https://gist.github.com/lmammino/02fe...
Revoking IAM role temporary security credentials (official AWS docs): https://docs.aws.amazon.com/IAM/lates...


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