---
id: DASF-67
type: control
source_version: "3.0"
valid_as_of: 2026-10-22
---

# DASF-67 — Federate authentication

Source: [official compendium, Databricks AI Mitigation Controls, row 69](https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1lD5nKC1QNoUTDXdMp31NA9eKcUYGjhtC34MCfQpqpGo/edit#gid=780486953&range=A69:AB69). 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](https://docs.databricks.com/aws/en/dev-tools/auth/oauth-federation)
- [AZURE documentation](https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/databricks/dev-tools/auth/oauth-federation)
- [GCP documentation](https://docs.databricks.com/gcp/en/dev-tools/auth/oauth-federation)

## Risks linked by the risk table

- [DASF-R-1.1](https://mathborgess.github.io/ai-security-wiki/wiki/risks/1.1.md)
- [DASF-R-2.1](https://mathborgess.github.io/ai-security-wiki/wiki/risks/2.1.md)
- [DASF-R-2.2](https://mathborgess.github.io/ai-security-wiki/wiki/risks/2.2.md)
- [DASF-R-2.3](https://mathborgess.github.io/ai-security-wiki/wiki/risks/2.3.md)
- [DASF-R-2.4](https://mathborgess.github.io/ai-security-wiki/wiki/risks/2.4.md)
- [DASF-R-3.1](https://mathborgess.github.io/ai-security-wiki/wiki/risks/3.1.md)
- [DASF-R-6.1](https://mathborgess.github.io/ai-security-wiki/wiki/risks/6.1.md)
- [DASF-R-7.1](https://mathborgess.github.io/ai-security-wiki/wiki/risks/7.1.md)
- [DASF-R-7.2](https://mathborgess.github.io/ai-security-wiki/wiki/risks/7.2.md)
- [DASF-R-8.2](https://mathborgess.github.io/ai-security-wiki/wiki/risks/8.2.md)
- [DASF-R-8.4](https://mathborgess.github.io/ai-security-wiki/wiki/risks/8.4.md)
- [DASF-R-9.1](https://mathborgess.github.io/ai-security-wiki/wiki/risks/9.1.md)
- [DASF-R-9.2](https://mathborgess.github.io/ai-security-wiki/wiki/risks/9.2.md)
- [DASF-R-9.5](https://mathborgess.github.io/ai-security-wiki/wiki/risks/9.5.md)
- [DASF-R-9.6](https://mathborgess.github.io/ai-security-wiki/wiki/risks/9.6.md)
- [DASF-R-9.7](https://mathborgess.github.io/ai-security-wiki/wiki/risks/9.7.md)
- [DASF-R-9.9](https://mathborgess.github.io/ai-security-wiki/wiki/risks/9.9.md)
- [DASF-R-9.10](https://mathborgess.github.io/ai-security-wiki/wiki/risks/9.10.md)
- [DASF-R-9.11](https://mathborgess.github.io/ai-security-wiki/wiki/risks/9.11.md)
- [DASF-R-9.12](https://mathborgess.github.io/ai-security-wiki/wiki/risks/9.12.md)
- [DASF-R-10.3](https://mathborgess.github.io/ai-security-wiki/wiki/risks/10.3.md)
- [DASF-R-10.4](https://mathborgess.github.io/ai-security-wiki/wiki/risks/10.4.md)
- [DASF-R-12.7](https://mathborgess.github.io/ai-security-wiki/wiki/risks/12.7.md)
- [DASF-R-13.1](https://mathborgess.github.io/ai-security-wiki/wiki/risks/13.1.md)
- [DASF-R-13.2](https://mathborgess.github.io/ai-security-wiki/wiki/risks/13.2.md)
- [DASF-R-13.3](https://mathborgess.github.io/ai-security-wiki/wiki/risks/13.3.md)
- [DASF-R-13.6](https://mathborgess.github.io/ai-security-wiki/wiki/risks/13.6.md)
- [DASF-R-13.7](https://mathborgess.github.io/ai-security-wiki/wiki/risks/13.7.md)
- [DASF-R-13.8](https://mathborgess.github.io/ai-security-wiki/wiki/risks/13.8.md)
- [DASF-R-13.9](https://mathborgess.github.io/ai-security-wiki/wiki/risks/13.9.md)
- [DASF-R-13.12](https://mathborgess.github.io/ai-security-wiki/wiki/risks/13.12.md)
- [DASF-R-13.13](https://mathborgess.github.io/ai-security-wiki/wiki/risks/13.13.md)
- [DASF-R-13.14](https://mathborgess.github.io/ai-security-wiki/wiki/risks/13.14.md)
- [DASF-R-13.16](https://mathborgess.github.io/ai-security-wiki/wiki/risks/13.16.md)
- [DASF-R-13.17](https://mathborgess.github.io/ai-security-wiki/wiki/risks/13.17.md)
- [DASF-R-13.18](https://mathborgess.github.io/ai-security-wiki/wiki/risks/13.18.md)
- [DASF-R-13.19](https://mathborgess.github.io/ai-security-wiki/wiki/risks/13.19.md)
- [DASF-R-13.20](https://mathborgess.github.io/ai-security-wiki/wiki/risks/13.20.md)
- [DASF-R-13.22](https://mathborgess.github.io/ai-security-wiki/wiki/risks/13.22.md)
- [DASF-R-13.23](https://mathborgess.github.io/ai-security-wiki/wiki/risks/13.23.md)
- [DASF-R-13.24](https://mathborgess.github.io/ai-security-wiki/wiki/risks/13.24.md)
- [DASF-R-13.27](https://mathborgess.github.io/ai-security-wiki/wiki/risks/13.27.md)
- [DASF-R-13.28](https://mathborgess.github.io/ai-security-wiki/wiki/risks/13.28.md)
- [DASF-R-13.29](https://mathborgess.github.io/ai-security-wiki/wiki/risks/13.29.md)
- [DASF-R-13.31](https://mathborgess.github.io/ai-security-wiki/wiki/risks/13.31.md)
- [DASF-R-13.34](https://mathborgess.github.io/ai-security-wiki/wiki/risks/13.34.md)

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

## Verification

Project adaptation: **get_control** returns a concrete evidence request, a proposed test, and an acceptance condition. A control description or product feature is not evidence of deployment or effectiveness.

## Source-reported framework mappings

These are the mappings in this snapshot, with their original edition labels. They are references, not proof of conformity or independent validation.

| Framework | Source mapping |
|---|---|
| MITRE ATLAS as of Q3 2024 | no mapping |
| MITRE ATTACK as of Q3 2024 | M1036 Account Use Policies<br>M1027 Password Policies |
| OWASP LLM Top 10 2025 | LLM01.1: Prompt Injection<br>LLM02.1: Insecure Output Handling<br>LLM03.CEV.5: Training Data Poisoning<br>LLM06.3: Sensitive Information Disclosure<br>LLM07.4,5, 6: Insecure Plugin Design<br>LLM08.5, 7: Excessive Agency |
| OWASP ML Top 10 v0.3 | ML02:2023 Data Poisoning Attack<br>ML03:2023 Model Inversion Attack<br>ML04:2023 Membership Inference Attack<br>ML05:2023 Model Theft<br>ML08:2023 Model Skewing<br>ML09:2023 Output Integrity Attack<br>ML10:2023 Model Poisoning |
| ISO 42001:2023 Controls Objectives and Controls (Annex A) | no mapping |
| ISO 27001:2022 Information Security Control Reference (Annex A) | A.5.16 Identity management<br>A.8.5 Secure authentication |
| NIST - 800- 53 - Rev 5 | IA-2:Identification and Authentication (Organizational Users), <br>IA-5:Authenticator Management, <br>IA-12:Identity Proofing, <br>SC-12:Cryptographic Key Establishment and Management,<br>SC-23:Session Authenticity |
| HITRUST Security for AI Systems | Access to the AI system -&gt; Restrict access to data used for AI<br>Access to the AI system -&gt;  Restrict access to AI models<br>Access to the AI system -&gt; Restrict access to the AI engineering environment and AI code |
| ENISA’s Securing ML Algorithms | Apply a RBAC Model, Respecting the Least Privileged Principle.<br>Ensure ML Applications Comply with Identity Management, Authentication, and Access Control Policies. |
| EU AI ACT | Article 9 Risk management system<br>Article 26 Obligations of deployers of high-risk AI systems |
| NIST CSF 2.0 | PR.AA-01<br>PR.AA-02<br>PR.AA-03<br>PR.AA-06<br>PR.IR-01 |
| AIUC-1 | no mapping |

## Related

- [Methodology](https://mathborgess.github.io/ai-security-wiki/wiki/methodology.md)
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