diff --git a/manifests/machineconfigserver/clusterrole.yaml b/manifests/machineconfigserver/clusterrole.yaml
index a5bf7e869f..ade58935b2 100644
--- a/manifests/machineconfigserver/clusterrole.yaml
+++ b/manifests/machineconfigserver/clusterrole.yaml
@@ -7,3 +7,6 @@ rules:
 - apiGroups: ["machineconfiguration.openshift.io"]
   resources: ["machineconfigs", "machineconfigpools"]
   verbs: ["*"]
+- apiGroups: [""]
+  resources: ["configmaps", "secrets"]
+  verbs: ["get", "list", "watch"]
diff --git a/manifests/machineconfigserver/daemonset.yaml b/manifests/machineconfigserver/daemonset.yaml
index 1b79b0501f..c32634f287 100644
--- a/manifests/machineconfigserver/daemonset.yaml
+++ b/manifests/machineconfigserver/daemonset.yaml
@@ -49,3 +49,9 @@ spec:
       - name: certs
         secret:
           secretName: machine-config-server-tls
+      # See https://github.com/openshift/enhancements/pull/443
+      # This will only exist in 4.7+ clusters by default.
+      - name: provisioning-token
+        secret:
+          secretName: provisioning-token
+          optional: true
diff --git a/pkg/operator/assets/bindata.go b/pkg/operator/assets/bindata.go
index 40df9bd44e..0e6aa808c9 100644
--- a/pkg/operator/assets/bindata.go
+++ b/pkg/operator/assets/bindata.go
@@ -1284,6 +1284,9 @@ rules:
 - apiGroups: ["machineconfiguration.openshift.io"]
   resources: ["machineconfigs", "machineconfigpools"]
   verbs: ["*"]
+- apiGroups: [""]
+  resources: ["configmaps", "secrets"]
+  verbs: ["get", "list", "watch"]
 `)
 
 func manifestsMachineconfigserverClusterroleYamlBytes() ([]byte, error) {
@@ -1445,6 +1448,12 @@ spec:
       - name: certs
         secret:
           secretName: machine-config-server-tls
+      # See https://github.com/openshift/enhancements/pull/443
+      # This will only exist in 4.7+ clusters by default.
+      - name: provisioning-token
+        secret:
+          secretName: provisioning-token
+          optional: true
 `)
 
 func manifestsMachineconfigserverDaemonsetYamlBytes() ([]byte, error) {
diff --git a/pkg/server/api.go b/pkg/server/api.go
index 086f8bc9f0..c643b3a645 100644
--- a/pkg/server/api.go
+++ b/pkg/server/api.go
@@ -27,7 +27,9 @@ const (
 
 type poolRequest struct {
 	machineConfigPool string
-	version           *semver.Version
+	// The provisioning token, see https://github.com/openshift/enhancements/pull/443
+	token   string
+	version *semver.Version
 }
 
 // APIServer provides the HTTP(s) endpoint
@@ -114,7 +116,10 @@ func (sh *APIHandler) ServeHTTP(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request) {
 	poolName := path.Base(r.URL.Path)
 	useragent := r.Header.Get("User-Agent")
 	acceptHeader := r.Header.Get("Accept")
-	glog.Infof("Pool %s requested by address:%q User-Agent:%q Accept-Header: %q", poolName, r.RemoteAddr, useragent, acceptHeader)
+	q := r.URL.Query()
+	token := q.Get("token")
+	tokenProvided := token != ""
+	glog.Infof("Pool %s requested by address:%q User-Agent:%q Accept-Header: %q TokenPresent: %v", poolName, r.RemoteAddr, useragent, acceptHeader, tokenProvided)
 
 	reqConfigVer, err := detectSpecVersionFromAcceptHeader(acceptHeader)
 	if err != nil {
@@ -126,14 +131,20 @@ func (sh *APIHandler) ServeHTTP(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request) {
 
 	cr := poolRequest{
 		machineConfigPool: poolName,
+		token:             token,
 		version:           reqConfigVer,
 	}
 
 	conf, err := sh.server.GetConfig(cr)
 	if err != nil {
 		w.Header().Set("Content-Length", "0")
-		w.WriteHeader(http.StatusInternalServerError)
-		glog.Errorf("couldn't get config for req: %v, error: %v", cr, err)
+		if IsForbidden(err) {
+			w.WriteHeader(http.StatusForbidden)
+			glog.Infof("Denying unauthorized request: %v", err)
+		} else {
+			w.WriteHeader(http.StatusInternalServerError)
+			glog.Errorf("couldn't get config for req: %v, error: %v", cr, err)
+		}
 		return
 	}
 	if conf == nil {
diff --git a/pkg/server/cluster_server.go b/pkg/server/cluster_server.go
index 23c1afc52f..15b782a3cb 100644
--- a/pkg/server/cluster_server.go
+++ b/pkg/server/cluster_server.go
@@ -6,12 +6,16 @@ import (
 	"fmt"
 	"io/ioutil"
 	"path/filepath"
+	"time"
 
 	yaml "github.com/ghodss/yaml"
 	ctrlcommon "github.com/openshift/machine-config-operator/pkg/controller/common"
+	"github.com/pkg/errors"
 	corev1 "k8s.io/api/core/v1"
+	apierrors "k8s.io/apimachinery/pkg/api/errors"
 	metav1 "k8s.io/apimachinery/pkg/apis/meta/v1"
 	"k8s.io/apimachinery/pkg/runtime"
+	"k8s.io/client-go/kubernetes"
 	rest "k8s.io/client-go/rest"
 	clientcmd "k8s.io/client-go/tools/clientcmd"
 	clientcmdv1 "k8s.io/client-go/tools/clientcmd/api/v1"
@@ -33,6 +37,8 @@ const (
 var _ = Server(&clusterServer{})
 
 type clusterServer struct {
+	client kubernetes.Interface
+
 	// machineClient is used to interact with the
 	// machine config, pool objects.
 	machineClient v1.MachineconfigurationV1Interface
@@ -52,16 +58,51 @@ func NewClusterServer(kubeConfig, apiserverURL string) (Server, error) {
 		return nil, fmt.Errorf("Failed to create Kubernetes rest client: %v", err)
 	}
 
+	client, err := kubernetes.NewForConfig(restConfig)
+	if err != nil {
+		return nil, errors.Wrapf(err, "creating core client")
+	}
+
 	mc := v1.NewForConfigOrDie(restConfig)
 	return &clusterServer{
+		client:         client,
 		machineClient:  mc,
 		kubeconfigFunc: func() ([]byte, []byte, error) { return kubeconfigFromSecret(bootstrapTokenDir, apiserverURL) },
 	}, nil
 }
 
+// authorizeRequest checks the provided token
+func (cs *clusterServer) authorizeRequest(cr poolRequest) (bool, error) {
+	s, err := cs.client.CoreV1().Secrets("openshift-machine-config-operator").Get(context.TODO(), "provisioning-token", metav1.GetOptions{})
+	if err != nil {
+		if !apierrors.IsNotFound(err) {
+			return false, errors.Wrapf(err, "Fetching provisioning-token")
+		}
+		// If the cluster doesn't have a `provisioning-token` secret, we don't require it.
+		return true, nil
+	}
+	// Unconditionally sleep to mitigate brute force attacks
+	time.Sleep(1 * time.Second)
+	if cr.token != string(s.Data["token"]) {
+		return false, nil
+	}
+	return true, nil
+}
+
 // GetConfig fetches the machine config(type - Ignition) from the cluster,
 // based on the pool request.
 func (cs *clusterServer) GetConfig(cr poolRequest) (*runtime.RawExtension, error) {
+	authorized, err := cs.authorizeRequest(cr)
+	if err != nil {
+		return nil, err
+	}
+	if !authorized {
+		return nil, &configError{
+			msg:       "Provided token is invalid",
+			forbidden: true,
+		}
+	}
+
 	mp, err := cs.machineClient.MachineConfigPools().Get(context.TODO(), cr.machineConfigPool, metav1.GetOptions{})
 	if err != nil {
 		return nil, fmt.Errorf("could not fetch pool. err: %v", err)
diff --git a/pkg/server/server.go b/pkg/server/server.go
index c439cdeaf7..cf559fc038 100644
--- a/pkg/server/server.go
+++ b/pkg/server/server.go
@@ -37,6 +37,27 @@ type kubeconfigFunc func() (kubeconfigData []byte, rootCAData []byte, err error)
 // appenderFunc appends Config.
 type appenderFunc func(*igntypes.Config, *mcfgv1.MachineConfig) error
 
+// configError is returned by the GetConfig API
+type configError struct {
+	msg       string
+	forbidden bool
+}
+
+// configError returns the string
+func (e *configError) Error() string {
+	return e.msg
+}
+
+// IsForbidden says if err is an configError with forbidden set
+func IsForbidden(err error) bool {
+	switch t := err.(type) {
+	case *configError:
+		return t.forbidden
+	default:
+		return false
+	}
+}
+
 // Server defines the interface that is implemented by different
 // machine config server implementations.
 type Server interface {
diff --git a/pkg/server/server_test.go b/pkg/server/server_test.go
index 81e57441e5..37673ed9f5 100644
--- a/pkg/server/server_test.go
+++ b/pkg/server/server_test.go
@@ -20,6 +20,7 @@ import (
 	"github.com/stretchr/testify/assert"
 	corev1 "k8s.io/api/core/v1"
 	metav1 "k8s.io/apimachinery/pkg/apis/meta/v1"
+	k8sfake "k8s.io/client-go/kubernetes/fake"
 
 	mcfgv1 "github.com/openshift/machine-config-operator/pkg/apis/machineconfiguration.openshift.io/v1"
 	ctrlcommon "github.com/openshift/machine-config-operator/pkg/controller/common"
@@ -243,6 +244,8 @@ func TestClusterServer(t *testing.T) {
 		t.Fatalf("unexpected error while unmarshaling machine-config: %s, err: %v", mcPath, err)
 	}
 
+	basecs := k8sfake.NewSimpleClientset()
+
 	cs := fake.NewSimpleClientset()
 	_, err = cs.MachineconfigurationV1().MachineConfigPools().Create(context.TODO(), mp, metav1.CreateOptions{})
 	if err != nil {
@@ -254,6 +257,7 @@ func TestClusterServer(t *testing.T) {
 	}
 
 	csc := &clusterServer{
+		client:         basecs,
 		machineClient:  cs.MachineconfigurationV1(),
 		kubeconfigFunc: func() ([]byte, []byte, error) { return getKubeConfigContent(t) },
 	}
@@ -320,6 +324,36 @@ func TestClusterServer(t *testing.T) {
 	if !foundEncapsulated {
 		t.Errorf("missing %s", daemonconsts.MachineConfigEncapsulatedPath)
 	}
+
+	// Test https://github.com/openshift/enhancements/pull/443
+	provisioningSecret := &corev1.Secret{
+		ObjectMeta: metav1.ObjectMeta{Name: "provisioning-token"},
+		Data: map[string][]byte{
+			"token": []byte("somesecrettoken"),
+		},
+	}
+	basecs.CoreV1().Secrets("openshift-machine-config-operator").Create(context.TODO(), provisioningSecret, metav1.CreateOptions{})
+
+	// Do a request without a token
+	res, err = csc.GetConfig(poolRequest{
+		machineConfigPool: testPool,
+	})
+	assert.Error(t, err)
+
+	// Incorrect token
+	res, err = csc.GetConfig(poolRequest{
+		token:             "someothertoken",
+		machineConfigPool: testPool,
+	})
+	assert.Error(t, err)
+
+	// Valid token
+	res, err = csc.GetConfig(poolRequest{
+		token:             "somesecrettoken",
+		machineConfigPool: testPool,
+	})
+	assert.Nil(t, err)
+	assert.NotNil(t, res)
 }
 
 func getKubeConfigContent(t *testing.T) ([]byte, []byte, error) {