Level 4: Reliability, security & cloud · L4.4 Security architecture
Authentication vs authorization, sessions vs tokens
Distinguish authN/authZ and sessions vs JWTs.
11 min · Pro
What you take away
- Authentication proves who you are; authorization decides what you may do — and the second has to be checked per object, not once at the edge.
And 3 more inside the class, in Pro.
How the class is laid out
- The problem
- The simple version
- Where the truth lives
- Authorization is the one that gets skipped
- Check your understanding