{"id":285,"date":"2025-09-29T01:10:02","date_gmt":"2025-09-29T01:10:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/pierrerj\/?p=285"},"modified":"2025-09-29T01:10:02","modified_gmt":"2025-09-29T01:10:02","slug":"authentication-vs-authorization","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/pierrerj\/2025\/09\/29\/authentication-vs-authorization\/","title":{"rendered":"Authentication VS. Authorization"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright size-large is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/tse4.mm.bing.net\/th\/id\/OIP.n3KFwzKeII8ZZ4DLqNdCgAHaCd?rs=1&amp;pid=ImgDetMain&amp;o=7&amp;rm=3\" alt=\"\" style=\"width:290px;height:auto\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p>Authentication is basically how a system makes sure you are really who you say you are. For example, when you log into your bank\u2019s app with your username and<br>password, or even your fingerprint, the system checks that information against what it has on file (Microsoft, 2023). Authorization comes right after that, deciding what you\u2019re<br>allowed to do once you\u2019re logged in (IBM, 2022). Using the same bank example, you might only be able to see your own account details, while a bank employee with special access could view multiple customer accounts.<br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Authentication is basically how a system makes sure you are really who you say you are. For example, when you log into your bank\u2019s app with your username andpassword, or even your fingerprint, the system checks that information against what it has on file (Microsoft, 2023). Authorization comes right after that, deciding what you\u2019reallowed to&#8230; <\/p>\n<div class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/pierrerj\/2025\/09\/29\/authentication-vs-authorization\/\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":30657,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wds_primary_category":0},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/pierrerj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/pierrerj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/pierrerj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/pierrerj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/30657"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/pierrerj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=285"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/pierrerj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":289,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/pierrerj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285\/revisions\/289"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/pierrerj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/pierrerj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/pierrerj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}