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Authentication options in Azure - Azure Tutorial
From the course: Azure Essential Training for Developers
Authentication options in Azure
- Authentication and authorization are often confused for each other. Authentication and authorization are related, but they're not the same thing. It's worth exploring what each is and isn't so that you can properly secure your Azure applications. Authentication answers the question are you the person you're claiming to be? When you need to use services online, like your bank's online portal, or your email, you're usually asked to provide proof that you are, in fact, who you say you are before you can proceed. This is the authentication process and it's achieved in a few different ways. The standard method is to confirm that a set of credentials, like a username and password, match a known user in the application's records. If it does, an application can be mostly confident that the correct person is logging in by providing sufficient proof of their identity. If it doesn't, an application must interpret that mismatch as…
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