Defining authentication and authorization

Authentication and authorization are key components of IAM and how we enforce the principle of least privilege.

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Figure 5.1 – Authentication and authorization comparison

Authentication is defined as the verification and validation of who you are. This is generally accomplished with a username and password. For additional security verification, we should use multi-factor authentication to make sure that the person entering in the username and password is who they say that they are. This aligns...