DASF-67 — Federate authentication

Source: official compendium, Databricks AI Mitigation Controls, row 69. Snapshot: 2026-10-22; source revision: DASF v 2.1.

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Intent and implementation

OAuth token federation is a simpler and more secure method for authenticating to Databricks, especially for automated workloads. Token federation allows applications to authenticate to Databricks using tokens from your trusted IdP, eliminating the need to store Databricks secrets like static tokens or passwords. Databricks OAuth token federation enables your users and applications to securely access Databricks AI APIs using tokens from your identity provider (IdP). Workloads authenticate to Databricks as a service principal in the Databricks account, using workload identity tokens issued by the automation environment. The Databricks SDKs and Databricks CLI automatically fetch these workload identity tokens and exchange them for Databricks OAuth tokens, which eliminates the need manage and rotate Databricks secrets.

Source metadata

• Category: Access and Authentication
• System component: Operations and Platform
• Databricks responsibility: Databricks — Configuration
• Product reference: Customer configured, Databricks enforced
• Feature/control: Control
• Security Analysis Tool reference: Features available to implement control and manually verify
• Novelty: Traditional Control/Capability

Databricks responsibility labels do not establish who enforces this control on another platform. Name a local owner and verify it.

Implementation references

• AWS documentation
• AZURE documentation
• GCP documentation

Risks linked by the risk table

• DASF-R-1.1
• DASF-R-2.1
• DASF-R-2.2
• DASF-R-2.3
• DASF-R-2.4
• DASF-R-3.1
• DASF-R-6.1
• DASF-R-7.1
• DASF-R-7.2
• DASF-R-8.2
• DASF-R-8.4
• DASF-R-9.1
• DASF-R-9.2
• DASF-R-9.5
• DASF-R-9.6
• DASF-R-9.7
• DASF-R-9.9
• DASF-R-9.10
• DASF-R-9.11
• DASF-R-9.12
• DASF-R-10.3
• DASF-R-10.4
• DASF-R-12.7
• DASF-R-13.1
• DASF-R-13.2
• DASF-R-13.3
• DASF-R-13.6
• DASF-R-13.7
• DASF-R-13.8
• DASF-R-13.9
• DASF-R-13.12
• DASF-R-13.13
• DASF-R-13.14
• DASF-R-13.16
• DASF-R-13.17
• DASF-R-13.18
• DASF-R-13.19
• DASF-R-13.20
• DASF-R-13.22
• DASF-R-13.23
• DASF-R-13.24
• DASF-R-13.27
• DASF-R-13.28
• DASF-R-13.29
• DASF-R-13.31
• DASF-R-13.34

The control table separately reports: DASF-R-1.1, DASF-R-2.1, DASF-R-2.2, DASF-R-2.3, DASF-R-2.4, DASF-R-3.1, DASF-R-6.1, DASF-R-7.1, DASF-R-7.2, DASF-R-8.2, DASF-R-8.4, DASF-R-9.1, DASF-R-9.2, DASF-R-9.5, DASF-R-9.6, DASF-R-9.7, DASF-R-9.9, DASF-R-9.10, DASF-R-9.11, DASF-R-9.12, DASF-R-10.3, DASF-R-10.4, DASF-R-12.7, DASF-R-13.1, DASF-R-13.2, DASF-R-13.3, DASF-R-13.6, DASF-R-13.7, DASF-R-13.8, DASF-R-13.9, DASF-R-13.12, DASF-R-13.13, DASF-R-13.14, DASF-R-13.16, DASF-R-13.17, DASF-R-13.18, DASF-R-13.19, DASF-R-13.20, DASF-R-13.22, DASF-R-13.23, DASF-R-13.24, DASF-R-13.27, DASF-R-13.28, DASF-R-13.29, DASF-R-13.31, DASF-R-13.34. See source issues for differences.

Verification

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Source-reported framework mappings

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