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Discussion on: Security Authentication vs. Authorization: What You Need to Know

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Alex Sarafian

Well explained. I'm the simplest terms, authentication is about confirming who you are and authorization is about checking what you can do.

Security is unfortunately a word that usually gets to contain everything about what people don't understand. Pic, certificates, process access, authentication+authorizations as one and every error that directly or not seems to deny access.

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Joy Winter

Glad you like it!