Authentication
Enforce standard authentication for external data source connections. Use when integrating, configuring, or reviewing connections from AI systems to external databases, APIs, or data services.
Install
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Security review
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- ✓ Prompt-injection patterns
- ✓ Secret / credential exfiltration
- ✓ Dangerous shell & filesystem operations
- ✓ Untrusted network calls
- ✓ Known-malicious package signatures
What it can access
- ✓ Network access No
- ✓ Filesystem access No
- ✓ Shell / process execution No
- ✓ Environment & secrets No
- ✓ Dynamic code execution No
From automated source analysis of v0.1.0. “Used” means the capability is present in the source — more access means more to trust, not that it’s unsafe.
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Declared compatibility
Compatibility is declared by the source manifest. End-to-end runtime verification is coming, see below.
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Authentication for External Data Sources
Security Requirement
External data sources MUST require that the principal (user or service) connecting to them is identified and authenticated. The authentication MUST use standard protocols.
Standard Authentication Protocols
| Protocol | Use Case | |---|---| | OAuth 2.1 / OIDC | Web APIs, REST services, cloud data sources | | SPIFFE/SPIRE + mTLS | Service-to-service connections within infrastructure | | SAML | Federated enterprise data sources | | Kerberos | On-premise databases and services (Active Directory environments) | | Client certificates (mTLS) | Machine-to-machine data source access |
What Is Not Acceptable
- Unauthenticated connections to data sources containing any data
- Shared credentials used by all services
- Credentials embedded in connection strings in source code
- Long-lived API keys without rotation (see
api_keys/avoid-api-keys)
Implementation Checklist
- [ ] Identify all external data sources accessed by the AI system
- [ ] Require authentication for every data source connection
- [ ] Use standard authentication protocols (OAuth, mTLS, Kerberos)
- [ ] Use unique credentials per service or workload (no shared credentials)
- [ ] Store credentials in a secret management system
- [ ] Rotate credentials on a regular schedule
- [ ] Log authentication events (successes and failures)
Source & license
This open-source skill is cataloged on AgentStack and links to its original source — we do not rehost the code.
- Author: RedHatProductSecurity
- Source: RedHatProductSecurity/prodsec-skills
- License: Apache-2.0
Install and usage instructions live in the source repository linked above.
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Versions
- v0.1.0 Imported from the upstream source.