persistence-audit

Detecting hidden persistence vectors involves systematically scanning authentication flows, machine identities, and CI/CD configurations to uncover unauthorized access paths. This process evaluates six categories: OAuth tokens, service accounts, CI/CD pipelines, IdP, audit trails, and endpoint workloads to ensure complete security eradication.

Rotating credentials fails to remove attacker access when hidden persistence vectors like stale OAuth grants or forgotten service accounts remain active. Attackers exploit these unauthorized trust paths to re-enter a system, bypassing standard credential rotation and maintaining silent post-compromise persistence.

Auditing OAuth grants and service accounts requires context-aware scanning of authentication flows and machine identities across a codebase or architecture. This systematic evaluation identifies unauthorized access paths within identity provider configurations and ensures stale trust relationships are eradicated.

Yes, persistence auditing supports specialized context-aware modes for PR diffs and architecture specs. This ensures thorough security coverage during code reviews by evaluating authentication flows and automation configurations directly within the proposed changes before deployment.

Hardening CI/CD pipelines against post-compromise persistence requires scanning automation configurations and CI/CD secrets to detect unauthorized access paths. This systematic approach evaluates pipeline trust relationships and ensures complete security eradication of hidden machine identities during incident response.

You need a systematic persistence audit during incident response immediately after a suspected breach and credential rotation. It verifies that all trust paths are removed, ensuring an attacker cannot re-enter via forgotten service accounts, stale OAuth grants, or modified audit trails.