Bring Your Own Identity: What Does It Mean for Authorization?

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https://www.linkedin.com/in/james-konik-87154922/' https://thenewstack.io/how-do-authentication-and-authorization-differ/ often go hand in hand, but increasingly, that’s not the case in modern software architectures. The recent trend of separating these two components — dubbed Bring Your Own Identity (BYOI) by Gartner — is gaining traction and comes with a number of benefits.

BYOI is an approach to authentication that lets users verify their identity via third-party services.

Handling this disparity whilst giving users the flexibility to use any identity source is part of the challenge.

Modern paradigms, like BYOI, have now changed how user identities are handled inside an application.

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