Identity and Access Management

Workload Identities vs Long-Lived Credentials

Why a long-lived static credential embedded in a workload — an API key, a service-account key file, a hardcoded secret — is a persistent, high-value target, and how a workload identity mechanism (short-lived tokens bound to the workload's attested runtime context) removes the need to provision or store one at all, along with where that mechanism still needs correct scoping and does not fully apply.