What Is Authentication?
Search Security, Wednesday, November 1,2023
Authentication is the process of determining whether someone or something is who or what they say they are.
Authentication technology provides access control for systems by checking to see if a user's credentials match the credentials in a database of authorized users or a data authentication server. In doing this, authentication ensures that systems, processes and enterprise information are secure.
There are several authentication types. For user identity, users are typically identified with a user ID; authentication occurs when the user provides credentials, such as a password, that match their user ID.