Event Driven Applications

• Why is access control important?

  • providing more controls on who has the access to do things

• Describe an application that would need access control.

  • like a blog site, only the auther and admin has the right to delete some blogs

• What is a role used for?

  • use to determine the accessibility for a certain user

• Why is role based access control more scalable than discretionary or mandatory access control?

  • the roles are associating to each users and it can be easily scaled and managed with users

Document the following Vocabulary Terms

• Authorization: the process to check user’s identity

• Role Based Access Control: the capabilities and permissions are assigned to each users as their roles

• Capabilities: users’ ability to do things based on their roles

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