How to Stop Expired Secrets from Disrupting Your Operations

Originally published by Aembit.

Written by Dan Kaplan.

 

You and your team have just received that dreaded late-night alert: “Authentication failure in production.” Your team’s carefully built service is down, not because of a sophisticated ransomware attack or some complex virus, but something far more mundane: an expired API key that nobody remembered to rotate.

In modern cloud-native environments, authentication isn’t just about users logging in, it’s about machines, serv…