Saturday, 19 May 2012

Authentication, Authorization and Accounting

AAA

Authentication

Authentication refers to the method of proving that you are somebody using to prove that you are who you are. For eg, you are a student user of your school website. Therefore you log in with your student account and password to validate yourself.

Authorization
Authorization refers to what data can you access or what you can do in a network. For eg, as a student, I can log in to the school website and access course study materials.

Accounting
Accounting is a factor that accounts the action that you have taken in a network. For example, I accessed the school website 10 times a day to access my school study materials.
Posted by at

2 comments:

  1. Nur Hummairah19 May 2012 at 10:47

    hahaha this is so not 200 words! but oh well, at least you were nice enough to explain each and every A. It's so clear and easy to understand. Thanks for making it short and nice :)

    ReplyDelete
  2. Jack11 July 2014 at 08:52

    After reading your post on Authentication, Authorization and Accounting, I have learned something more about Authentication, Authorization and Accounting. With the detailed explanation and examples, it helped me understand something more about AAA.
    public key infrastructure

    ReplyDelete

Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom)