Changing a secret value does not complete an integration's credential rotation. Every consumer must move safely to the new credential.

Inventory applications, scheduled work, background workers, and connection owners before planning the change.

Define any permitted overlap, the verification steps, and a recovery route. Keep routine rotation separate from the response to a suspected compromise.

Verify a harmless end-to-end business operation, rather than stopping after a successful login. Check that old consumers are no longer relying on the retired value.

Assign continuing ownership and record exceptions. Rotation is an application change whose success is observable service behavior, not merely a new value saved in a settings screen.

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