Lexicon

Least-Privilege Credential

Kind: technique

Layer: Security Core

Record: lexicon:least-privilege-credential

Canonical: Lexicon

A technique for issuing each caller a credential that grants only the operations it performs.

Listed in Lexicon terms, after Secret Rotation and before Centralize Policy.

Category

  • Security Privacy Compliance

Refactors

  • Secret Sprawl
  • Least Privilege

Linked from

  • Anti-patterns
  • Security / Privacy / Compliance / Governance