Azure audit keyvault secrets need rotation remediation

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Using CLI

To remediate the issue of expiring secrets in Azure using Azure CLI, you can follow these steps:

Login to your Azure account using Azure CLI by running the following command:

az login

Once you are logged in, you need to identify the secrets that are about to expire. You can do this by running the following command:

az keyvault secret list --vault-name <your-key-vault-name> --query "[?attributes.exp != null && attributes.exp < now()]"

This command will list all the secrets that are about to expire in your key vault.

Now that you have identified the secrets that need rotation, you can rotate them by creating new versions of the secrets with updated values. You can do this by running the following command:

az keyvault secret set --vault-name <your-key-vault-name> --name <your-secret-name> --value <your-new-secret-value>

Replace <your-key-vault-name>, <your-secret-name> and <your-new-secret-value> with the appropriate values.

Once you have created new versions of all the secrets that were about to expire, you can delete the old versions of the secrets by running the following command:

az keyvault secret delete --vault-name <your-key-vault-name> --name <your-secret-name> --version <your-old-secret-version>

Replace <your-key-vault-name>, <your-secret-name> and <your-old-secret-version> with the appropriate values.

Repeat steps 3 and 4 for all the secrets that were about to expire.
Finally, you can verify that all the secrets have been rotated successfully by running the following command:

az keyvault secret list --vault-name <your-key-vault-name> --query "[?attributes.exp != null && attributes.exp < now()]"

This command should return an empty list, indicating that all the secrets have been rotated successfully.By following these steps, you can remediate the issue of expiring secrets in Azure using Azure CLI.

Using Python

To remediate the issue of expiring secrets in AZURE using Python, you can follow these steps:

Install the azure-identity and azure-keyvault-secrets packages using pip.
```
pip install azure-identity azure-keyvault-secrets
```

Import the required libraries in your Python code.

from azure.identity import DefaultAzureCredential
from azure.keyvault.secrets import SecretClient
from datetime import datetime, timedelta

Set up the authentication credentials using the DefaultAzureCredential class.
```
credential = DefaultAzureCredential()
```

Create a SecretClient object using the Azure Key Vault URL and the authentication credentials.

keyvault_url = "https://<your-key-vault-name>.vault.azure.net/"
secret_client = SecretClient(vault_url=keyvault_url, credential=credential)

Retrieve the list of secrets from the Key Vault using the list_properties_of_secrets method of the SecretClient object.
```
secrets = secret_client.list_properties_of_secrets()
```
Iterate over the list of secrets and check if any of them are about to expire (i.e., the expires_on property is less than the current time plus a buffer period). If a secret is about to expire, retrieve its current value using the get_secret method of the SecretClient object, update its value, and then set the updated value using the set_secret method of the SecretClient object.
```
buffer_period = timedelta(days=7)  # Set a buffer period of 7 days
for secret in secrets:
    if secret.expires_on <= datetime.utcnow() + buffer_period:
        secret_value = secret_client.get_secret(secret.name).value
        # Update the secret value here
        secret_client.set_secret(secret.name, secret_value)
```
Run the Python script periodically (e.g., daily) using a task scheduler or a cron job to ensure that secrets are rotated before they expire.

These steps should help you remediate the issue of expiring secrets in AZURE using Python.

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