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Emergency containment

Stop access safely while preserving a recovery path and evidence.

Containment is appropriate when an identity, credential, host, integration, or trust anchor may be compromised.

First actions

  1. Confirm the affected tenant, people, credentials, hosts, and time window.
  2. Preserve at least one independent administrative recovery path.
  3. Contain the narrowest safe scope in Tenvyr.
  4. Revoke active credentials or access where supported.
  5. Verify that new SSH authentication fails.
  6. Export and preserve relevant audit events.

Do not begin by deleting evidence or removing the only remaining administrator.

Choose the scope

IncidentInitial containment
One user or SCIM identityContain the actor; revoke credentials and sessions
Exposed enrollment tokenLet it expire or consume safely; investigate any host created from it
Exposed SCIM tokenRotate the connector token immediately
Compromised OIDC secretReplace it in Tenvyr, test, then revoke it at the provider
One suspect hostRemove it from access scope and revoke/contain its host identity
Suspect host-group CABegin trust rotation for that host group
Policy errorDisable or narrow the policy and inspect affected grants

Validate containment

Check both control and data paths:

  • Tenvyr rejects new access requests or credential issuance;
  • direct OpenSSH authentication no longer accepts the affected identity;
  • agents continue reporting where evidence collection requires it;
  • SIEM delivery still works; and
  • emergency administrators can still reach the host.

Recover deliberately

Recovery is a new authorization decision. Establish root cause, rotate affected secrets or trust, review identity state, and re-enable the smallest scope first. Document who approved restoration and which tests were completed.

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