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43 Hardware-key break-glass super-admin

The 20 Break-glass admin + offline backup codes account's second factor is a hardware security key that lives in a sealed safe — never in a drawer, never in daily use. Registering the key is the easy part: the control is the custody around it, so the key is removed only in a witnessed ceremony and any authentication with it fires an alert, because an account nobody uses has no legitimate sign-in.

Caveats

This is a process control — it is carried out offline, so there is no Admin Console walkthrough to show.

Ongoing maintenance

How to verify

  1. Run the drill: retrieve the sealed key, sign in with it, confirm super-admin access, then re-seal. Log the drill with witnesses per the custody rules.

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