Glossary term
What is Authentication and authorization?
In Apex Flow Academy, "Authentication and authorization" means: Authentication asks who you are. Authorization asks what you are allowed to do. It is taught in Node.js: Build the Back End and APIs and Cybersecurity and Ethical Hacking: Fundamentals. Related terms include Session token, Origin and CORS, Salt and Environment variable.
- 2 courses teach it
- plain-word definition
The facts
What is Authentication and authorization?
Authentication asks who you are. Authorization asks what you are allowed to do. (From Node.js: Build the Back End and APIs. 1 other course defines it for their own subject, so each definition follows.)
What does Authentication and authorization mean in Node.js: Build the Back End and APIs?
Authentication asks who you are. Authorization asks what you are allowed to do.
What does Authentication and authorization mean in Cybersecurity and Ethical Hacking: Fundamentals?
Authentication proves who you are. Authorization decides what you are allowed to do once the system knows who you are.
Where is Authentication and authorization taught?
Authentication and authorization is defined in Node.js: Build the Back End and APIs and Cybersecurity and Ethical Hacking: Fundamentals.
Node.js: Build the Back End and APIsCybersecurity and Ethical Hacking: Fundamentals
Which terms are related to Authentication and authorization?
Next to Authentication and authorization in the course glossaries: Session token, Origin and CORS, Salt, Environment variable, Hash, Rate limit, Migration, Smoke test, Cross-site scripting (XSS) and Session.
Session tokenOrigin and CORSSaltEnvironment variableHashRate limitMigrationSmoke testCross-site scripting (XSS)Session
The hard questions, answered straight
Bold questions people really ask. Each answer comes from the course data or a settled Academy fact.
Do I need experience before I learn Authentication and authorization?
It depends on the course. Each course that teaches it lists its own prerequisites, and all are listed at intermediate and beginner level:
- Node.js: Build the Back End and APIs: Basic JavaScript: variables, functions, objects, arrays, conditions and loops.
- Cybersecurity and Ethical Hacking: Fundamentals: No security, networking or programming experience is needed.