The access token represents a grant to access Arctic Wolf resources. It contains information about the identity of the caller (application) as well as control information form the token itself, for instance, date it was issued and expiration. This token is also responsible for holding all scopes that would be used by our system to validate actions attempted to be taken against Arctic Wolf resources.

There is an expiration associated to this token. The expiration time will be set during token creation on the server side. After the token expires, the server will respond with HTTP/1.1 401 unauthorized indicating to the caller to authenticate again with a new access token.