authentication

authentication definition - telecom
Security measures designed to verify or validate the identity of a user or station prior to granting access to resources. Authentication mechanisms include passwords and intelligent tokens. See also intelligent token NAS, password, RADIUS, and RAS.

Webster's New World Telecom Dictionary Copyright © 2008 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Indianapolis, Indiana.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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