Mitigation of risk of denial of services for protected resources

A non-transitory computer-readable medium coupled to one or more processors and having instructions stored thereon which, when executed by the one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to perform operations, the operations comprising:

• receiving, at an automation tool, a request to change an old log-in credential of an account to a new log-in credential for use in authenticating to access a resource of resources provided at a data center, wherein the request is received from an entity authenticated at the automation tool, and wherein the automation tool is configured to execute resource management operations over the resources;
• determining, at the automation tool, whether to validate the new log-in credential by determining whether a tracked number of attempts to access the resource by the account has reached a threshold lock policy value for the resource;
• and
• in response to invalidating the new log-in credential by determining that the tracked number of attempts to access the resource exceeds the threshold lock policy value, denying, by the automation tool, changing the old log-in credential to the new log-in credential.

A system comprising

• a computing device;
• and
• a computer-readable storage device coupled to the computing device and having instructions stored thereon which, when executed by the computing device, cause the computing device to perform operations, the operations comprising:
• receiving, at an automation tool, a request to change an old log-in credential of an account to a new log-in credential for use in authenticating to access a resource of resources provided at a data center, wherein the request is received from an entity authenticated at the automation tool, and wherein the automation tool is configured to execute resource management operations over the resources;
• determining, at the automation tool, whether to validate the new log-in credential by determining whether a tracked number of attempts to access the resource by the account has reached a threshold lock policy value for the resource;
• and
• in response to invalidating the new log-in credential by determining that the tracked number of attempts to access the resource exceeds the threshold lock policy value, denying, by the automation tool, changing the old log-in credential to the new log-in credential.