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ECO-NET-NET-004

Name: Redundant authentication calls

Category: NET

Family: NET

Primary layer: network

System layers: network

Description

Repeated auth calls waste CPU and network and add latency.

Impact

  • confidence: 0.6
  • notes: High when per-request introspection is used.
  • type: latency

Detection

  • languages:
  • infra
  • method: trace

Remediation

  • guidance: Cache tokens/keys; prefer local validation when safe.
  • tradeoffs: Must respect revocation semantics.

Pattern examples

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Remediation examples

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