Lesson 1.2
Authentication versus authorization
Authentication is who you are; authorization is what you may do. Broken access control is consistently the most common serious finding.
Taught byAlina CostaDocker · Kubernetes · CI/CD · Application security
Overview
Authentication is who you are; authorization is what you may do. Broken access control is consistently the most common serious finding.
What this lesson covers
- Separate identity from permission checks
- Enforce authorization on the server, every time
- Catch insecure direct object references
This lesson sits in Thinking About Threats, part of Practical Web Security. It assumes what came before it and leads directly into the next lesson in the module.
In this lesson you will:
- Separate identity from permission checks
- Enforce authorization on the server, every time
- Catch insecure direct object references