📖What it means

Replacing a credential on a schedule so that a leaked one stops being useful. A credential that is never rotated is permanently valuable to whoever finds it.

📖Easily confused with

[{"term": "Revoke", "distinction": "Rotation replaces a secret routinely; revoking withdraws authority deliberately."}]

📖Also called

- key rotation
- re-issue
- refresh

📖Filed under

Category: general.

Service: Security.