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IBM Cloud Key

Description#

General#

  • Documentation: https://cloud.ibm.com/docs
  • Summary: IBM Cloud provides a large variety of managed cloud services. The Identity and Access Management (IAM) tab of the IBM Cloud dashboard displays all the information on users rights and API keys created. An IBM cloud key can give access to infrastructure API and to resources.
  • IPs allowlist: Restrictions on IP addresses can be set in the IAM/settings tab of IBM Cloud dashboard.
  • Scopes: Scopes associated to each API key can be fine tuned in the IAM tab by creating roles and groups.

Revoke the secret#

Secrets can be revoked from the same tab.

Check for suspicious activity#

IBM Cloud offers a managed service to detect suspicious activities among the account resources. See documentation for more details.

Details for Ibm platform api key#

  • Family: Api

  • Category: Cloud Provider

  • Company: IBM Cloud

  • High recall: False

  • Validity check available: True

  • On-premise instances exist: False

  • Only valid secrets raise an alert: True

  • Minimum number of matches: 1

  • Occurrences found for one million commits: 48.07

  • Prefixed: False

  • PreValidators:

- type: FilenameBanlistPreValidator  banlist_extensions: []  banlist_filenames: []  check_binaries: false  include_default_banlist_extensions: true  ban_markup: false- type: FilenameBanlistPreValidator  banlist_extensions:  - ^crt$  - ^pem$  banlist_filenames:  - package-lock\.json  check_binaries: false  include_default_banlist_extensions: false  ban_markup: false- type: ContentWhitelistPreValidator  patterns:  - ibm

Examples#

- text: ibm_platform_key=-_mSsEDVnuVh07HNSddnQx_b6CacPsxmCwaVm9P_VWxR  apikey: -_mSsEDVnuVh07HNSddnQx_b6CacPsxmCwaVm9P_VWxR- text: |    toto    ibm    +-_mSsEDVnuVh07HNSddnQx_b6CacPsxmCwaVm9P_VWxR    hrello my  apikey: -_mSsEDVnuVh07HNSddnQx_b6CacPsxmCwaVm9P_VWxR- text: ibm_platform_key=-_mSsEDVnuVh07HNSddnQx_b6CacPsxmCwaVm9P_VWxR  apikey: -_mSsEDVnuVh07HNSddnQx_b6CacPsxmCwaVm9P_VWxR  filename: some_file.md