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IBM COS HMAC Credentials

Description#

General#

  • Documentation: https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/cloud-object-storage
  • Summary: IBM Cloud provides a large variety of managed cloud services. The Cloud Object Storage service provides the data layer for IBM Cloud applications. HMAC credentials are used to access the Cloud Object Storage API. See this page for more info about IBM Cloud Object Storage credentials.
  • IPs allowlist: As of the time of writing this documentation, this feature is not yet supported.
  • Scopes: Scopes associated with each set of credentials can be tuned by selecting the Role associated with the credentials (see documentation.

Revoke the secret#

HMAC credentials can be revoked:

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 cos hmac credentials#

  • Family: Api

  • Category: Cloud Provider

  • Company: IBM

  • High recall: False

  • Validity check available: True

  • On-premise instances exist: False

  • Only valid secrets raise an alert: True

  • Minimum number of matches: 2

  • Occurrences found for one million commits: 4.42

  • Prefixed: False

  • PreValidators:

- type: FilenameBanlistPreValidator  banlist_extensions: []  banlist_filenames: []  check_binaries: false  include_default_banlist_extensions: true  ban_markup: false- type: ContentWhitelistPreValidator  patterns:  - ibm  - appdomain\.cloud  - mybluemix- type: ContentWhitelistPreValidator  patterns:  - key- type: ContentWhitelistPreValidator  patterns:  - secret

Examples#

- text: |    host = "something.cloud-object-storage.cloud.ibm.com"    accessKeyId = "6df60a98c029135cb873d67ce725a12a"    secretAccessKey = "aca12fd185fafde23f03a6e981122b0e25cf124f43fcb62f"  client_id: 6df60a98c029135cb873d67ce725a12a  client_secret: aca12fd185fafde23f03a6e981122b0e25cf124f43fcb62f- text: host = "something.cloud-object-storage.cloud.ibm.com" accessKeyId = "6df60a98c029135cb873d67ce725a12a" secretAccessKey = "aca12fd185fafde23f03a6e981122b0e25cf124f43fcb62f"
  client_id: 6df60a98c029135cb873d67ce725a12a  client_secret: aca12fd185fafde23f03a6e981122b0e25cf124f43fcb62f  filename: some_file.md