Authen­tifi­ca­tion

This is a process where the pur­ported iden­tity of a person or device is checked based on one or sev­eral spe­cific char­ac­ter­is­tics (e. g. pass­word, chip card or finger print).

See also: Two-factor authen­tifi­ca­tion (2FA), Autho­ri­sa­tion