We carry a physical analog of this in real life: work badge. My policy-enforced visible picture identifies who I am and that I match that photo and also gatekee

We carry a physical analog of this in real life: work badge. My policy-enforced visible picture identifies who I am and that I match that photo and also gatekeeps me into and out of places I'm allowed to enter. > terminology implies that the two concepts, authentication and authorization, are more closely related than they are ... There are some links ... because what you can do is tied to who you are. But they're also very different AuthZ being entirely dependent on AuthN is not "some links". That's an unbreakable dependency. I can agree that these two words being a single letter apart are easy to conflate though. But as they are related, we're more likely to increase training/education around the concept rather than rename them.