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Rotate Access Keys

LOW

Source

Trivy

Frameworks

CIS AWS 1.2

CIS AWS 1.4

AVD-AWS-0146

Access keys should be rotated at least every 90 days

Regularly rotating your IAM credentials helps prevent a compromised set of IAM access keys from accessing components in your AWS account.

Impact

Compromised keys are more likely to be used to compromise the account

Links

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/prescriptive-guidance/latest/patterns/automatically-rotate-iam-user-access-keys-at-scale-with-aws-organizations-and-aws-secrets-manager.html

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