A student cannot enter the school premises without the student ID, an employee is required to always wear his uniform and ID so to be recognized by the
company.
Credentials and certificates must be presented when you apply for loan
or any financing program, along with credit card usage is a valid ID and any person who transacts legal matters with anybody or any establishment needs to present valid ID as proof of his genuine identity.
These are not uncommon scenes when we encounter the word authentic. Authentic according to dictionary is synonymous to certain, legitimate, real or trustworthy. Thus, Authentication is the process of determining whether someone or something is, in fact, who or what it is declared to be. With that in mind, it is almost similar or closely related to identification.
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What comes to mind when you hear the word DATA? The plural of Latin word datum? Matter of fact, yes, but more than that, it is a collection or a group of qualitative and/or quantitative attributes of variable or set of variables. It is something we consider important or valuable from which information or knowledge is derived.
Keeping data is critical back then since things were done manually and storage devices are not readily available. Paper documents, images or pictures once burned are lost forever.
But with the fast progression of technology today, a wide array of solutions is continually developed to secure and even recover lost data. This has become possible through backup. Read the rest of this entry »