authenticate

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The ability to centrally authenticate, authorize, and audit access across diverse platforms enables organizations to greatly reduce audit costs, streamline IT security administration, and protect corporate value by mitigating the risk of insider fraud.

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  1. transitive verb To establish the authenticity of; prove genuine: a specialist who authenticated the antique samovar. See Synonyms at confirm.

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  • The ability to centrally authenticate, authorize, and audit access across diverse platforms enables organizations to greatly reduce audit costs, streamline IT security administration, and protect corporate value by mitigating the risk of insider fraud. —  Latest News from SYS-CON ITALIA
  • After you successfully authenticate, then you will create a solution name and password. —  MSDN Blogs
  • There is no reason why an authority could not return a set of claims at the time a terminated user attempts to authenticate to the Relying Party that says (a) do not authenticate, and (b) de-provision immediately. —  Adventures of an Eternal Optimist
  • While genocidaires and other perpetrators of grave crimes often keep painstaking records of their crimes, it has been in the past an enormous task to track down, authenticate, and preserve this documentary record. —  Concurring Opinions
  • Because Radiuz requires a live Internet connection for users to authenticate, a loss of service at the access point's source -- a DSL line going down -- or anywhere between the user and Radiuz would disable all Wi-Fi access to the network. —  Wi-Fi Networking News
 

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  1. from Middle Latin authenticatus, past participle of authenticare, confirm, from Late Latin authenticus, authentic: see authentic.
  2. from Middle Latin authenticatus, past participle: see the verb.
 

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/ɔˈθɛntɪkeɪt/
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