Digital Identity Authorization Authentication - ghdrako/doc_snipets GitHub Wiki

One of the key purposes of an identity system is to authenticate that the subject is who they claim to be and authorize requests to access a resource.

• subject - in ex. person, organization, software program, machine
• resource - in ex. web page, a piece of data in a database, or even a credit-card transaction
• identity record in ex. account
• authenticate that the subject
• authorize requests to access a resource