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Security Practices for Delta Sharing

Andrew Weaver, et al, share some advice:

When you enableĀ Delta Sharing, you configure the token lifetime for recipient credentials. If you set the token lifetime to 0, recipient tokens never expire.

Setting the appropriate token lifetime is critically important for regulatory, compliance and reputational standpoint. Having a token that never expires is a huge risk; therefore, it is recommended using short-lived tokens as best practice. It is far easier to grant a new token to a recipient whose token has expired than it is to investigate the use of a token whose lifetime has been improperly set.

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