Episode 32 — Reduce token and session risk with strong lifecycle and revocation discipline
This episode focuses on token and session lifecycle management, because cloud breaches often succeed not by breaking MFA but by stealing and reusing sessions, refresh tokens, or long-lived access paths. You’ll define access tokens, refresh tokens, session cookies, and session state, then connect their lifetimes and renewal rules to practical risk: the longer a token lives and the broader its scope, the more valuable it is to an attacker. We’ll cover best practices such as short lifetimes for high-privilege sessions, strong reauthentication triggers, explicit logout and revocation workflows, and monitoring for token reuse from unexpected contexts. A scenario walks through a user who completes MFA once, then has a session token stolen via endpoint compromise; you’ll practice choosing controls that limit replay, force revalidation, and revoke quickly without locking out legitimate users during an incident. Produced by BareMetalCyber.com, where you’ll find more cyber audio courses, books, and information to strengthen your educational path. Also, if you want to stay up to date with the latest news, visit DailyCyber.News for a newsletter you can use, and a daily podcast you can commute with.
