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CompTIA Security+ study material · question 304 of 611

What property of a secrets manager most reduces the value of a leaked credential?

  1. Auditing every retrieval
  2. Issuing short-lived, automatically rotated credentials
  3. Storing secrets separately from application code
  4. Encryption of the vault at rest
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Answer: B. Issuing short-lived, automatically rotated credentials

A short lifetime means the window in which a stolen secret is useful closes on its own.

Source: OWASP Secrets Management Cheat Sheet (OWASP) — OWASP Secrets Management Cheat Sheet › Rotation

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