Tag: Temporary Credentials

Organizations are increasingly providing access to corporate resources from employee laptops and are required to apply the correct permissions to these computing devices to make sure that secrets and sensitive data are adequately protected. The combination of Amazon Web Services (AWS) long-term credentials and a YubiKey security token for multi-factor authentication (MFA) is an option […]

Now, your applications and federated users can complete longer running workloads in a single session by increasing the maximum session duration up to 12 hours for an IAM role. Users and applications still retrieve temporary credentials by assuming roles using AWS Security Token Service (AWS STS), but these credentials can now be valid for up […]

It seems that the topic of using temporary security credentials has been coming up at lot recently. Several weeks ago Rich Mogull expressed his chagrin for not using temporary credentials in his post titled, “My $500 Cloud Security Screw-up”. And over the weekend Scott Adams published a Dilbert comic poking fun of Dilbert not understanding […]