The Evolution of Cloud-Native Authorization

Authentication in the Age of SaaS and Cloud

Let's start with the differences between authentication and authorization. People tend to lump these concepts together as auth, but they're two distinct processes.

Authentication describes the process of finding out that you are who you say you are. In the past, we used user IDs and passwords. These days it's much more common to use magic links or multi-factor authentication, etc. but, it's the same process.