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High Availability (HA)

IT concepts
High Availability (HA) is a system design approach that ensures a specific degree of operational continuity during a given time period, typically measured in uptime percentages such as 99.9% or 99.99%. In workload identity and access management systems, HA ensures that authentication, authorization, and credential issuance services remain accessible even during infrastructure failures, network disruptions, or regional outages.

Hashing

Security concepts
In identity management, hashing is used to store and verify credentials like passwords by converting them into a fixed-size string of characters. Hashing algorithms also play a role in managing machine identities securely.