Security concepts · Question 4 of 12
A user signs in successfully with a password and an app code. The system then decides whether she may open the personnel file. What is this second step called?
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Answer
- D Authorization
Explanation
Authentication (who are you?) is followed by authorization (what may you do?). It is based on roles, rules or attributes. Accounting then records what was actually done.