Mastering Identity and Access Management IAM The Complete Guide
You're balancing urgent security demands with tight deadlines, and the pressure is mounting. One misconfigured access policy could expose your organization to a data breach that triggers regulatory fines, reputational damage, and board-level scrutiny. Meanwhile, your peers are advancing into senior cloud security and compliance roles, while you're stuck deciphering IAM policies without a clear roadmap. You need more than just theory - you need a battle-ready, structured path to mastery that delivers real-world implementation confidence and career momentum. Mastering Identity and Access Management IAM The Complete Guide is that path. This course transforms you from uncertain to authoritative in IAM, equipping you to design, deploy, and audit secure identity frameworks across cloud and hybrid environments in as little as 4 weeks. By the end, you'll have built multiple production-grade IAM architectures from scratch and completed a board-ready compliance enforcement proposal - the kind that gets noticed by leadership and opens doors to high-impact roles. One learner, Sarah M., a Security Analyst at a Fortune 500 financial institution, used this course to redesign her company’s multi-cloud role hierarchy. Her new model reduced standing privileges by 78%, passed an external SOC 2 audit, and earned her a promotion to Cloud Access Governance Specialist within 60 days. You don't need more random tutorials or fragmented documentation. You need a proven system backed by real enterprise use cases, expert frameworks, and global certification recognition. Here’s how this course is structured to help you get there.Course Format & Delivery Details Self-Paced. Immediate Access. Zero Time Conflicts.
This is a completely self-paced, on-demand course. You decide when and where you learn. There are no fixed class times, no enrollment windows, and no countdowns. Begin the moment you enroll and progress at the speed that fits your schedule. Most learners complete the core modules in 3 to 4 weeks with consistent effort. Many achieve their first IAM policy deployment in under 10 days. The fastest learners have implemented a full principle-of-least-privilege model in under 20 hours of total study time. Lifetime Access. Always Up to Date.
You receive lifetime access to all course content. That means every future update - new frameworks, evolving compliance standards, emerging threats, and revised controls - is included at no additional cost. This course evolves with the IAM landscape, so your knowledge never expires. Access is available 24/7 from any device, including smartphones, tablets, and offline-capable desktops. Whether you're commuting, traveling, or working remotely, your learning environment travels with you. Guided Learning with Direct Instructor Support
You’re not left to figure things out alone. This course includes direct written feedback and architectural review opportunities from our senior IAM architects. Submit your access control models, policy drafts, or audit checklists and receive detailed, role-specific guidance to refine your approach. Support is delivered through structured feedback channels and is focused on real implementation challenges, not generic Q&A. You get the kind of expert insight typically reserved for internal consulting engagements. Certificate of Completion from The Art of Service
Upon successful completion, you will earn a Certificate of Completion issued by The Art of Service. This globally recognized credential validates your mastery of IAM best practices and demonstrates your ability to implement secure, auditable, and scalable access controls in real enterprise environments. The Art of Service has trained over 350,000 professionals worldwide in IT governance, risk, and compliance disciplines. This certificate is cited on resumes, LinkedIn profiles, and job applications across cybersecurity, cloud engineering, and IT audit roles - and is consistently referenced in promotion packets and project leadership bids. No Hidden Fees. Transparent Pricing. Full Flexibility.
The listed price includes everything: full curriculum access, all supporting materials, progress tracking, template libraries, and the final certificate. There are no tiered access levels, no paywalls for advanced modules, and no surprise charges. We accept all major payment methods, including Visa, Mastercard, and PayPal. Transactions are processed securely through PCI-compliant gateways, and your data is never stored or shared. 90-Day Satisfied or Refunded Guarantee
Try the course risk-free for 90 days. If you complete the first two modules, apply the checklists, and still feel the course isn’t delivering tangible value, simply request a full refund. No questions, no forms, no hassle. This is your safety net - a complete risk reversal. You only keep the course if it earns its place in your professional toolkit. Confirmation and Access Delivery
After enrollment, you will receive a confirmation email. Your access credentials and login details will be sent separately once your learner profile is fully provisioned and the course materials are ready for access. This ensures a secure, verified onboarding process aligned with organizational compliance standards. “Will This Work for Me?” - We’ve Got You Covered.
Yes - even if you’re new to IAM, transitioning from on-prem to cloud, or working in a regulated industry like healthcare or finance. The course is designed for real-world relevance, not idealized environments. This works even if you’ve struggled with abstract identity concepts before, if your organization uses legacy systems alongside AWS/Azure, or if you're responsible for proving compliance to auditors who demand evidence, not just intent. Engineers, auditors, compliance leads, and risk officers from organizations like Deloitte, IBM, and NHS Digital have used this course to close skill gaps, pass internal reviews, and lead IAM transformation initiatives - not just participate in them.
Extensive and Detailed Course Curriculum
Module 1: Foundations of Identity and Access Management - Understanding the core purpose and business value of IAM
- Defining identity as the new perimeter in modern security
- Key IAM principles: authentication, authorization, accounting
- The lifecycle of digital identities in enterprise systems
- Differentiating between users, service accounts, and machines
- Overview of single sign-on (SSO) and federated identity
- The role of directories: LDAP, Active Directory, Azure AD
- Introduction to identity providers (IdPs) and service providers (SPs)
- Common IAM risks and attack vectors in unmanaged environments
- Regulatory drivers: GDPR, HIPAA, SOC 2, NIST, ISO 27001
- Mapping IAM to organizational risk tolerance and compliance posture
- Identifying IAM stakeholders: security, IT, legal, compliance, DevOps
Module 2: IAM Governance, Policies, and Compliance Frameworks - Designing IAM governance models for centralized vs decentralized control
- Establishing an IAM steering committee and escalation pathways
- Developing an organization-wide IAM policy document
- Mapping access rights to job functions using role-based access control (RBAC)
- Implementing attribute-based access control (ABAC) for dynamic policies
- Time-bound access and temporary privilege elevation (just-in-time)
- Integrating IAM with HR systems for automated onboarding/offboarding
- Access certification and attestation workflows
- Policy exception management and approval tracking
- Documenting compliance evidence for auditors
- Aligning IAM practices with COBIT and ITIL frameworks
- Creating a risk-adjusted access matrix by department and sensitivity level
Module 3: Core IAM Technologies and Protocols - SAML 2.0: architecture, flows, and integration patterns
- OAuth 2.0: authorization grant types and security considerations
- OpenID Connect (OIDC): identity layer on top of OAuth
- Using JSON Web Tokens (JWTs) for secure session management
- Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML) vs OIDC use cases
- Understanding refresh tokens, access tokens, and scopes
- PKI fundamentals and certificate-based authentication
- Multi-factor authentication (MFA): TOTP, push, biometrics, hardware tokens
- API security with OAuth scopes and delegated access
- Token signing, encryption, and validation best practices
- Federated identity across cloud providers and third parties
- Secure handling of secrets in automated workflows
Module 4: Cloud IAM Deep Dive (AWS, Azure, GCP) - AWS IAM: users, groups, roles, policies, and trust relationships
- Azure AD and Entra ID: app registrations, enterprise apps, conditional access
- GCP Identity and Access Management: resources, roles, and service accounts
- Cross-cloud identity federation and hybrid scenarios
- Shared responsibility model for IAM in the cloud
- Managing cross-account access securely in AWS Organizations
- Implementing Azure Conditional Access policies for MFA enforcement
- GCP workload identity federation for AWS and Azure
- Attribute mapping and claims transformation in federated setups
- Securing cross-tenant access between enterprises
- Managing access to serverless and containerized workloads
- Best practices for tagging identities and tracking accountability
Module 5: Identity Lifecycle Management and Provisioning - Designing automated user provisioning workflows
- Integrating identity sources with SCIM (System for Cross-domain Identity Management)
- Automated deprovisioning and orphaned account cleanup
- Detecting and remediating stale identities
- Managing contractor, vendor, and guest access lifecycles
- Self-service registration and approval workflows
- Access request portals and approval routing rules
- Implementing separation of duties (SoD) in provisioning systems
- Tracking identity changes with audit trails and change logs
- Using change data capture (CDC) for real-time monitoring
- Orphaned service account detection and remediation
- Automating access reviews based on inactivity thresholds
Module 6: Privileged Access Management (PAM) - Defining privileged accounts and their inherent risks
- Just-in-time (JIT) vs just-enough-privilege (JEP) access models
- Implementing privileged session monitoring and recording
- Time-bound elevation with automated approval workflows
- Password vaulting and checkout/check-in mechanisms
- Integrating PAM with SIEM and SOAR platforms
- Securing administrative access to cloud consoles and APIs
- Managing root accounts in AWS and Azure global admins
- Protecting domain and enterprise administrators in Active Directory
- Privilege brokering for emergency access scenarios
- High-risk privilege detection using behavioral analytics
- Creating PAM playbooks for incident response readiness
Module 7: Role Engineering and Access Modeling - Top-down vs bottom-up role design approaches
- Conducting access mining and usage pattern analysis
- Consolidating excessive roles into reusable, maintainable roles
- Role mining with visualization tools and clustering algorithms
- Defining role hierarchies and inheritance rules
- Validating roles against least privilege principles
- Role risk scoring and exposure metrics
- Handling role conflicts using segregation of duties (SoD)
- Version controlling role definitions and policy templates
- Integrating role models with IaC (Infrastructure as Code)
- Creating reusable role blueprints for Dev, Test, Prod environments
- Aligning role design with job function taxonomies
Module 8: Policy as Code and Infrastructure as Code (IaC) - Writing IAM policies in AWS CloudFormation and Terraform
- Using Azure Policy and GCP Config Validator for compliance checks
- Linting and validating IAM policies with open-source tools
- Automating policy deployment through CI/CD pipelines
- Implementing drift detection and remediation workflows
- Parameterizing policies for environment-specific customization
- Creating reusable IAM module templates
- Using Sentinel or OPA (Open Policy Agent) for policy enforcement
- Integrating policy scanning into pre-commit hooks
- Managing secrets in IaC securely with external vaults
- Tagging enforcement at deployment time
- Using automated changelogs to map policy changes to deployments
Module 9: Monitoring, Logging, and Audit Trail Management - Enabling and centralizing IAM event logging (CloudTrail, Azure AD Logs, etc.)
- Creating custom log filters for high-risk IAM activities
- Detecting anomalous sign-ins and impossible travel patterns
- Mapping IAM events to MITRE ATT&CK techniques
- Using SIEM tools to correlate identity events with network data
- Building dashboards for real-time IAM health monitoring
- Automating alerts for unauthorized access attempts
- Monitoring for policy changes and privilege escalations
- Tracking root account and administrative console usage
- Creating immutable log repositories for forensic readiness
- Retention policies aligned with compliance requirements
- Performing log integrity validation and checksum verification
Module 10: Incident Response and Forensic Readiness with IAM - Designing a rapid response plan for compromised credentials
- Immediate containment actions for breached identities
- Revoking sessions and rotating credentials at scale
- Leveraging audit logs to trace attacker access paths
- Reconstructing identity timelines during incident investigations
- Identifying lateral movement through service account misuse
- Using IAM data to support legal and regulatory inquiries
- Integrating identity telemetry with SOAR platforms
- Automating bulk access suspension for compromised groups
- Forensic preservation of identity state snapshots
- Drafting post-incident access reviews and policy updates
- Implementing improved controls based on incident findings
Module 11: Zero Trust and Modern Identity Architectures - Understanding the shift from perimeter-based to identity-first security
- Zero Trust principles as defined by NIST and CISA
- Continuous authentication and adaptive authorization
- Device trust: integrating endpoint health checks into access decisions
- Implementing device compliance policies for conditional access
- Micro-segmentation using identity context
- Context-aware access based on location, time, and behavior
- Integrating risk signals from UEBA into policy engines
- Identity as a control plane in Zero Trust networks
- Replacing static passwords with phishing-resistant authenticators
- FIDO2, WebAuthn, and passkey adoption strategies
- Designing resilience into identity fallback mechanisms
Module 12: Identity Resilience and Business Continuity - Designing high-availability identity architectures
- Failover strategies for directory services and identity providers
- Backup and restore procedures for critical IAM configurations
- Securing recovery accounts with strict access controls
- Testing IAM outage scenarios through tabletop exercises
- Implementing manual access override protocols
- Creating identity runbooks for disaster recovery
- Maintaining emergency contact and approval lists
- Protecting against denial-of-identity attacks
- Validating recovery time objectives (RTO) and recovery point objectives (RPO)
- Documenting recovery procedures for auditor review
- Conducting annual identity resilience drills
Module 13: Third-Party and Partner Identity Integration - Managing external identities through B2B collaboration features
- Designing secure partner access zones with limited scopes
- Creating dedicated guest user policies and restrictions
- Federating identity with suppliers, contractors, and affiliates
- Enforcing MFA and device compliance for external users
- Time-limited partnerships with auto-expiring access
- Audit logging requirements for shared environments
- Handling data residency and sovereignty concerns
- Negotiating identity SLAs with third parties
- Managing consent and data sharing permissions
- Revoking access upon contract termination
- Using access packages and catalog-based provisioning
Module 14: IAM in DevOps and Secure Software Development - Integrating IAM into CI/CD pipelines securely
- Service account best practices for automation workflows
- Using short-lived tokens instead of long-term credentials
- Implementing dynamic credential injection at runtime
- Securing secrets in container orchestration platforms like Kubernetes
- Workload identity federation for cloud-native applications
- Principle of least privilege for build and deployment agents
- Automating access revocation for decommissioned pipelines
- Scanning code repositories for leaked IAM keys and secrets
- Enforcing IAM policy checks as pipeline gates
- Managing developer sandboxes with isolated access boundaries
- Creating dev-to-prod promotion rules with access alignment
Module 15: IAM Automation and Orchestration - Automating access requests and approvals with workflow engines
- Building approval hierarchies based on organizational structure
- Using decision tables to auto-approve low-risk requests
- Integrating with ticketing systems like ServiceNow and Jira
- Orchestrating multi-step provisioning across systems
- Scheduling periodic access reviews automatically
- Automated cleanup of unused roles and permissions
- Enabling self-service access through policy-governed portals
- Dynamic access grants based on project lifecycle stages
- Configuring auto-remediation for policy violations
- Using bots and RPA for legacy system integration
- Monitoring automation health and exception handling
Module 16: Certification and Final Implementation Project - Comprehensive review of all IAM core concepts
- Practice exercises with real-world access scenarios
- Diagnosing and fixing common IAM misconfigurations
- Building a multi-environment IAM framework from scratch
- Designing an audit-ready access governance model
- Creating a board-level presentation on IAM risk reduction
- Documenting policy exceptions and compensating controls
- Finalizing your personal IAM implementation blueprint
- Submitting your project for expert architectural review
- Receiving detailed feedback and improvement recommendations
- Tracking your mastery via built-in progress checkpoints
- Earning your Certificate of Completion from The Art of Service
- Resume and LinkedIn optimization tips for IAM roles
- Career advancement strategies using your new credentials
- Access to private professional community for continued growth
- Exclusive job board and leadership opportunity alerts
Module 1: Foundations of Identity and Access Management - Understanding the core purpose and business value of IAM
- Defining identity as the new perimeter in modern security
- Key IAM principles: authentication, authorization, accounting
- The lifecycle of digital identities in enterprise systems
- Differentiating between users, service accounts, and machines
- Overview of single sign-on (SSO) and federated identity
- The role of directories: LDAP, Active Directory, Azure AD
- Introduction to identity providers (IdPs) and service providers (SPs)
- Common IAM risks and attack vectors in unmanaged environments
- Regulatory drivers: GDPR, HIPAA, SOC 2, NIST, ISO 27001
- Mapping IAM to organizational risk tolerance and compliance posture
- Identifying IAM stakeholders: security, IT, legal, compliance, DevOps
Module 2: IAM Governance, Policies, and Compliance Frameworks - Designing IAM governance models for centralized vs decentralized control
- Establishing an IAM steering committee and escalation pathways
- Developing an organization-wide IAM policy document
- Mapping access rights to job functions using role-based access control (RBAC)
- Implementing attribute-based access control (ABAC) for dynamic policies
- Time-bound access and temporary privilege elevation (just-in-time)
- Integrating IAM with HR systems for automated onboarding/offboarding
- Access certification and attestation workflows
- Policy exception management and approval tracking
- Documenting compliance evidence for auditors
- Aligning IAM practices with COBIT and ITIL frameworks
- Creating a risk-adjusted access matrix by department and sensitivity level
Module 3: Core IAM Technologies and Protocols - SAML 2.0: architecture, flows, and integration patterns
- OAuth 2.0: authorization grant types and security considerations
- OpenID Connect (OIDC): identity layer on top of OAuth
- Using JSON Web Tokens (JWTs) for secure session management
- Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML) vs OIDC use cases
- Understanding refresh tokens, access tokens, and scopes
- PKI fundamentals and certificate-based authentication
- Multi-factor authentication (MFA): TOTP, push, biometrics, hardware tokens
- API security with OAuth scopes and delegated access
- Token signing, encryption, and validation best practices
- Federated identity across cloud providers and third parties
- Secure handling of secrets in automated workflows
Module 4: Cloud IAM Deep Dive (AWS, Azure, GCP) - AWS IAM: users, groups, roles, policies, and trust relationships
- Azure AD and Entra ID: app registrations, enterprise apps, conditional access
- GCP Identity and Access Management: resources, roles, and service accounts
- Cross-cloud identity federation and hybrid scenarios
- Shared responsibility model for IAM in the cloud
- Managing cross-account access securely in AWS Organizations
- Implementing Azure Conditional Access policies for MFA enforcement
- GCP workload identity federation for AWS and Azure
- Attribute mapping and claims transformation in federated setups
- Securing cross-tenant access between enterprises
- Managing access to serverless and containerized workloads
- Best practices for tagging identities and tracking accountability
Module 5: Identity Lifecycle Management and Provisioning - Designing automated user provisioning workflows
- Integrating identity sources with SCIM (System for Cross-domain Identity Management)
- Automated deprovisioning and orphaned account cleanup
- Detecting and remediating stale identities
- Managing contractor, vendor, and guest access lifecycles
- Self-service registration and approval workflows
- Access request portals and approval routing rules
- Implementing separation of duties (SoD) in provisioning systems
- Tracking identity changes with audit trails and change logs
- Using change data capture (CDC) for real-time monitoring
- Orphaned service account detection and remediation
- Automating access reviews based on inactivity thresholds
Module 6: Privileged Access Management (PAM) - Defining privileged accounts and their inherent risks
- Just-in-time (JIT) vs just-enough-privilege (JEP) access models
- Implementing privileged session monitoring and recording
- Time-bound elevation with automated approval workflows
- Password vaulting and checkout/check-in mechanisms
- Integrating PAM with SIEM and SOAR platforms
- Securing administrative access to cloud consoles and APIs
- Managing root accounts in AWS and Azure global admins
- Protecting domain and enterprise administrators in Active Directory
- Privilege brokering for emergency access scenarios
- High-risk privilege detection using behavioral analytics
- Creating PAM playbooks for incident response readiness
Module 7: Role Engineering and Access Modeling - Top-down vs bottom-up role design approaches
- Conducting access mining and usage pattern analysis
- Consolidating excessive roles into reusable, maintainable roles
- Role mining with visualization tools and clustering algorithms
- Defining role hierarchies and inheritance rules
- Validating roles against least privilege principles
- Role risk scoring and exposure metrics
- Handling role conflicts using segregation of duties (SoD)
- Version controlling role definitions and policy templates
- Integrating role models with IaC (Infrastructure as Code)
- Creating reusable role blueprints for Dev, Test, Prod environments
- Aligning role design with job function taxonomies
Module 8: Policy as Code and Infrastructure as Code (IaC) - Writing IAM policies in AWS CloudFormation and Terraform
- Using Azure Policy and GCP Config Validator for compliance checks
- Linting and validating IAM policies with open-source tools
- Automating policy deployment through CI/CD pipelines
- Implementing drift detection and remediation workflows
- Parameterizing policies for environment-specific customization
- Creating reusable IAM module templates
- Using Sentinel or OPA (Open Policy Agent) for policy enforcement
- Integrating policy scanning into pre-commit hooks
- Managing secrets in IaC securely with external vaults
- Tagging enforcement at deployment time
- Using automated changelogs to map policy changes to deployments
Module 9: Monitoring, Logging, and Audit Trail Management - Enabling and centralizing IAM event logging (CloudTrail, Azure AD Logs, etc.)
- Creating custom log filters for high-risk IAM activities
- Detecting anomalous sign-ins and impossible travel patterns
- Mapping IAM events to MITRE ATT&CK techniques
- Using SIEM tools to correlate identity events with network data
- Building dashboards for real-time IAM health monitoring
- Automating alerts for unauthorized access attempts
- Monitoring for policy changes and privilege escalations
- Tracking root account and administrative console usage
- Creating immutable log repositories for forensic readiness
- Retention policies aligned with compliance requirements
- Performing log integrity validation and checksum verification
Module 10: Incident Response and Forensic Readiness with IAM - Designing a rapid response plan for compromised credentials
- Immediate containment actions for breached identities
- Revoking sessions and rotating credentials at scale
- Leveraging audit logs to trace attacker access paths
- Reconstructing identity timelines during incident investigations
- Identifying lateral movement through service account misuse
- Using IAM data to support legal and regulatory inquiries
- Integrating identity telemetry with SOAR platforms
- Automating bulk access suspension for compromised groups
- Forensic preservation of identity state snapshots
- Drafting post-incident access reviews and policy updates
- Implementing improved controls based on incident findings
Module 11: Zero Trust and Modern Identity Architectures - Understanding the shift from perimeter-based to identity-first security
- Zero Trust principles as defined by NIST and CISA
- Continuous authentication and adaptive authorization
- Device trust: integrating endpoint health checks into access decisions
- Implementing device compliance policies for conditional access
- Micro-segmentation using identity context
- Context-aware access based on location, time, and behavior
- Integrating risk signals from UEBA into policy engines
- Identity as a control plane in Zero Trust networks
- Replacing static passwords with phishing-resistant authenticators
- FIDO2, WebAuthn, and passkey adoption strategies
- Designing resilience into identity fallback mechanisms
Module 12: Identity Resilience and Business Continuity - Designing high-availability identity architectures
- Failover strategies for directory services and identity providers
- Backup and restore procedures for critical IAM configurations
- Securing recovery accounts with strict access controls
- Testing IAM outage scenarios through tabletop exercises
- Implementing manual access override protocols
- Creating identity runbooks for disaster recovery
- Maintaining emergency contact and approval lists
- Protecting against denial-of-identity attacks
- Validating recovery time objectives (RTO) and recovery point objectives (RPO)
- Documenting recovery procedures for auditor review
- Conducting annual identity resilience drills
Module 13: Third-Party and Partner Identity Integration - Managing external identities through B2B collaboration features
- Designing secure partner access zones with limited scopes
- Creating dedicated guest user policies and restrictions
- Federating identity with suppliers, contractors, and affiliates
- Enforcing MFA and device compliance for external users
- Time-limited partnerships with auto-expiring access
- Audit logging requirements for shared environments
- Handling data residency and sovereignty concerns
- Negotiating identity SLAs with third parties
- Managing consent and data sharing permissions
- Revoking access upon contract termination
- Using access packages and catalog-based provisioning
Module 14: IAM in DevOps and Secure Software Development - Integrating IAM into CI/CD pipelines securely
- Service account best practices for automation workflows
- Using short-lived tokens instead of long-term credentials
- Implementing dynamic credential injection at runtime
- Securing secrets in container orchestration platforms like Kubernetes
- Workload identity federation for cloud-native applications
- Principle of least privilege for build and deployment agents
- Automating access revocation for decommissioned pipelines
- Scanning code repositories for leaked IAM keys and secrets
- Enforcing IAM policy checks as pipeline gates
- Managing developer sandboxes with isolated access boundaries
- Creating dev-to-prod promotion rules with access alignment
Module 15: IAM Automation and Orchestration - Automating access requests and approvals with workflow engines
- Building approval hierarchies based on organizational structure
- Using decision tables to auto-approve low-risk requests
- Integrating with ticketing systems like ServiceNow and Jira
- Orchestrating multi-step provisioning across systems
- Scheduling periodic access reviews automatically
- Automated cleanup of unused roles and permissions
- Enabling self-service access through policy-governed portals
- Dynamic access grants based on project lifecycle stages
- Configuring auto-remediation for policy violations
- Using bots and RPA for legacy system integration
- Monitoring automation health and exception handling
Module 16: Certification and Final Implementation Project - Comprehensive review of all IAM core concepts
- Practice exercises with real-world access scenarios
- Diagnosing and fixing common IAM misconfigurations
- Building a multi-environment IAM framework from scratch
- Designing an audit-ready access governance model
- Creating a board-level presentation on IAM risk reduction
- Documenting policy exceptions and compensating controls
- Finalizing your personal IAM implementation blueprint
- Submitting your project for expert architectural review
- Receiving detailed feedback and improvement recommendations
- Tracking your mastery via built-in progress checkpoints
- Earning your Certificate of Completion from The Art of Service
- Resume and LinkedIn optimization tips for IAM roles
- Career advancement strategies using your new credentials
- Access to private professional community for continued growth
- Exclusive job board and leadership opportunity alerts
- Designing IAM governance models for centralized vs decentralized control
- Establishing an IAM steering committee and escalation pathways
- Developing an organization-wide IAM policy document
- Mapping access rights to job functions using role-based access control (RBAC)
- Implementing attribute-based access control (ABAC) for dynamic policies
- Time-bound access and temporary privilege elevation (just-in-time)
- Integrating IAM with HR systems for automated onboarding/offboarding
- Access certification and attestation workflows
- Policy exception management and approval tracking
- Documenting compliance evidence for auditors
- Aligning IAM practices with COBIT and ITIL frameworks
- Creating a risk-adjusted access matrix by department and sensitivity level
Module 3: Core IAM Technologies and Protocols - SAML 2.0: architecture, flows, and integration patterns
- OAuth 2.0: authorization grant types and security considerations
- OpenID Connect (OIDC): identity layer on top of OAuth
- Using JSON Web Tokens (JWTs) for secure session management
- Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML) vs OIDC use cases
- Understanding refresh tokens, access tokens, and scopes
- PKI fundamentals and certificate-based authentication
- Multi-factor authentication (MFA): TOTP, push, biometrics, hardware tokens
- API security with OAuth scopes and delegated access
- Token signing, encryption, and validation best practices
- Federated identity across cloud providers and third parties
- Secure handling of secrets in automated workflows
Module 4: Cloud IAM Deep Dive (AWS, Azure, GCP) - AWS IAM: users, groups, roles, policies, and trust relationships
- Azure AD and Entra ID: app registrations, enterprise apps, conditional access
- GCP Identity and Access Management: resources, roles, and service accounts
- Cross-cloud identity federation and hybrid scenarios
- Shared responsibility model for IAM in the cloud
- Managing cross-account access securely in AWS Organizations
- Implementing Azure Conditional Access policies for MFA enforcement
- GCP workload identity federation for AWS and Azure
- Attribute mapping and claims transformation in federated setups
- Securing cross-tenant access between enterprises
- Managing access to serverless and containerized workloads
- Best practices for tagging identities and tracking accountability
Module 5: Identity Lifecycle Management and Provisioning - Designing automated user provisioning workflows
- Integrating identity sources with SCIM (System for Cross-domain Identity Management)
- Automated deprovisioning and orphaned account cleanup
- Detecting and remediating stale identities
- Managing contractor, vendor, and guest access lifecycles
- Self-service registration and approval workflows
- Access request portals and approval routing rules
- Implementing separation of duties (SoD) in provisioning systems
- Tracking identity changes with audit trails and change logs
- Using change data capture (CDC) for real-time monitoring
- Orphaned service account detection and remediation
- Automating access reviews based on inactivity thresholds
Module 6: Privileged Access Management (PAM) - Defining privileged accounts and their inherent risks
- Just-in-time (JIT) vs just-enough-privilege (JEP) access models
- Implementing privileged session monitoring and recording
- Time-bound elevation with automated approval workflows
- Password vaulting and checkout/check-in mechanisms
- Integrating PAM with SIEM and SOAR platforms
- Securing administrative access to cloud consoles and APIs
- Managing root accounts in AWS and Azure global admins
- Protecting domain and enterprise administrators in Active Directory
- Privilege brokering for emergency access scenarios
- High-risk privilege detection using behavioral analytics
- Creating PAM playbooks for incident response readiness
Module 7: Role Engineering and Access Modeling - Top-down vs bottom-up role design approaches
- Conducting access mining and usage pattern analysis
- Consolidating excessive roles into reusable, maintainable roles
- Role mining with visualization tools and clustering algorithms
- Defining role hierarchies and inheritance rules
- Validating roles against least privilege principles
- Role risk scoring and exposure metrics
- Handling role conflicts using segregation of duties (SoD)
- Version controlling role definitions and policy templates
- Integrating role models with IaC (Infrastructure as Code)
- Creating reusable role blueprints for Dev, Test, Prod environments
- Aligning role design with job function taxonomies
Module 8: Policy as Code and Infrastructure as Code (IaC) - Writing IAM policies in AWS CloudFormation and Terraform
- Using Azure Policy and GCP Config Validator for compliance checks
- Linting and validating IAM policies with open-source tools
- Automating policy deployment through CI/CD pipelines
- Implementing drift detection and remediation workflows
- Parameterizing policies for environment-specific customization
- Creating reusable IAM module templates
- Using Sentinel or OPA (Open Policy Agent) for policy enforcement
- Integrating policy scanning into pre-commit hooks
- Managing secrets in IaC securely with external vaults
- Tagging enforcement at deployment time
- Using automated changelogs to map policy changes to deployments
Module 9: Monitoring, Logging, and Audit Trail Management - Enabling and centralizing IAM event logging (CloudTrail, Azure AD Logs, etc.)
- Creating custom log filters for high-risk IAM activities
- Detecting anomalous sign-ins and impossible travel patterns
- Mapping IAM events to MITRE ATT&CK techniques
- Using SIEM tools to correlate identity events with network data
- Building dashboards for real-time IAM health monitoring
- Automating alerts for unauthorized access attempts
- Monitoring for policy changes and privilege escalations
- Tracking root account and administrative console usage
- Creating immutable log repositories for forensic readiness
- Retention policies aligned with compliance requirements
- Performing log integrity validation and checksum verification
Module 10: Incident Response and Forensic Readiness with IAM - Designing a rapid response plan for compromised credentials
- Immediate containment actions for breached identities
- Revoking sessions and rotating credentials at scale
- Leveraging audit logs to trace attacker access paths
- Reconstructing identity timelines during incident investigations
- Identifying lateral movement through service account misuse
- Using IAM data to support legal and regulatory inquiries
- Integrating identity telemetry with SOAR platforms
- Automating bulk access suspension for compromised groups
- Forensic preservation of identity state snapshots
- Drafting post-incident access reviews and policy updates
- Implementing improved controls based on incident findings
Module 11: Zero Trust and Modern Identity Architectures - Understanding the shift from perimeter-based to identity-first security
- Zero Trust principles as defined by NIST and CISA
- Continuous authentication and adaptive authorization
- Device trust: integrating endpoint health checks into access decisions
- Implementing device compliance policies for conditional access
- Micro-segmentation using identity context
- Context-aware access based on location, time, and behavior
- Integrating risk signals from UEBA into policy engines
- Identity as a control plane in Zero Trust networks
- Replacing static passwords with phishing-resistant authenticators
- FIDO2, WebAuthn, and passkey adoption strategies
- Designing resilience into identity fallback mechanisms
Module 12: Identity Resilience and Business Continuity - Designing high-availability identity architectures
- Failover strategies for directory services and identity providers
- Backup and restore procedures for critical IAM configurations
- Securing recovery accounts with strict access controls
- Testing IAM outage scenarios through tabletop exercises
- Implementing manual access override protocols
- Creating identity runbooks for disaster recovery
- Maintaining emergency contact and approval lists
- Protecting against denial-of-identity attacks
- Validating recovery time objectives (RTO) and recovery point objectives (RPO)
- Documenting recovery procedures for auditor review
- Conducting annual identity resilience drills
Module 13: Third-Party and Partner Identity Integration - Managing external identities through B2B collaboration features
- Designing secure partner access zones with limited scopes
- Creating dedicated guest user policies and restrictions
- Federating identity with suppliers, contractors, and affiliates
- Enforcing MFA and device compliance for external users
- Time-limited partnerships with auto-expiring access
- Audit logging requirements for shared environments
- Handling data residency and sovereignty concerns
- Negotiating identity SLAs with third parties
- Managing consent and data sharing permissions
- Revoking access upon contract termination
- Using access packages and catalog-based provisioning
Module 14: IAM in DevOps and Secure Software Development - Integrating IAM into CI/CD pipelines securely
- Service account best practices for automation workflows
- Using short-lived tokens instead of long-term credentials
- Implementing dynamic credential injection at runtime
- Securing secrets in container orchestration platforms like Kubernetes
- Workload identity federation for cloud-native applications
- Principle of least privilege for build and deployment agents
- Automating access revocation for decommissioned pipelines
- Scanning code repositories for leaked IAM keys and secrets
- Enforcing IAM policy checks as pipeline gates
- Managing developer sandboxes with isolated access boundaries
- Creating dev-to-prod promotion rules with access alignment
Module 15: IAM Automation and Orchestration - Automating access requests and approvals with workflow engines
- Building approval hierarchies based on organizational structure
- Using decision tables to auto-approve low-risk requests
- Integrating with ticketing systems like ServiceNow and Jira
- Orchestrating multi-step provisioning across systems
- Scheduling periodic access reviews automatically
- Automated cleanup of unused roles and permissions
- Enabling self-service access through policy-governed portals
- Dynamic access grants based on project lifecycle stages
- Configuring auto-remediation for policy violations
- Using bots and RPA for legacy system integration
- Monitoring automation health and exception handling
Module 16: Certification and Final Implementation Project - Comprehensive review of all IAM core concepts
- Practice exercises with real-world access scenarios
- Diagnosing and fixing common IAM misconfigurations
- Building a multi-environment IAM framework from scratch
- Designing an audit-ready access governance model
- Creating a board-level presentation on IAM risk reduction
- Documenting policy exceptions and compensating controls
- Finalizing your personal IAM implementation blueprint
- Submitting your project for expert architectural review
- Receiving detailed feedback and improvement recommendations
- Tracking your mastery via built-in progress checkpoints
- Earning your Certificate of Completion from The Art of Service
- Resume and LinkedIn optimization tips for IAM roles
- Career advancement strategies using your new credentials
- Access to private professional community for continued growth
- Exclusive job board and leadership opportunity alerts
- AWS IAM: users, groups, roles, policies, and trust relationships
- Azure AD and Entra ID: app registrations, enterprise apps, conditional access
- GCP Identity and Access Management: resources, roles, and service accounts
- Cross-cloud identity federation and hybrid scenarios
- Shared responsibility model for IAM in the cloud
- Managing cross-account access securely in AWS Organizations
- Implementing Azure Conditional Access policies for MFA enforcement
- GCP workload identity federation for AWS and Azure
- Attribute mapping and claims transformation in federated setups
- Securing cross-tenant access between enterprises
- Managing access to serverless and containerized workloads
- Best practices for tagging identities and tracking accountability
Module 5: Identity Lifecycle Management and Provisioning - Designing automated user provisioning workflows
- Integrating identity sources with SCIM (System for Cross-domain Identity Management)
- Automated deprovisioning and orphaned account cleanup
- Detecting and remediating stale identities
- Managing contractor, vendor, and guest access lifecycles
- Self-service registration and approval workflows
- Access request portals and approval routing rules
- Implementing separation of duties (SoD) in provisioning systems
- Tracking identity changes with audit trails and change logs
- Using change data capture (CDC) for real-time monitoring
- Orphaned service account detection and remediation
- Automating access reviews based on inactivity thresholds
Module 6: Privileged Access Management (PAM) - Defining privileged accounts and their inherent risks
- Just-in-time (JIT) vs just-enough-privilege (JEP) access models
- Implementing privileged session monitoring and recording
- Time-bound elevation with automated approval workflows
- Password vaulting and checkout/check-in mechanisms
- Integrating PAM with SIEM and SOAR platforms
- Securing administrative access to cloud consoles and APIs
- Managing root accounts in AWS and Azure global admins
- Protecting domain and enterprise administrators in Active Directory
- Privilege brokering for emergency access scenarios
- High-risk privilege detection using behavioral analytics
- Creating PAM playbooks for incident response readiness
Module 7: Role Engineering and Access Modeling - Top-down vs bottom-up role design approaches
- Conducting access mining and usage pattern analysis
- Consolidating excessive roles into reusable, maintainable roles
- Role mining with visualization tools and clustering algorithms
- Defining role hierarchies and inheritance rules
- Validating roles against least privilege principles
- Role risk scoring and exposure metrics
- Handling role conflicts using segregation of duties (SoD)
- Version controlling role definitions and policy templates
- Integrating role models with IaC (Infrastructure as Code)
- Creating reusable role blueprints for Dev, Test, Prod environments
- Aligning role design with job function taxonomies
Module 8: Policy as Code and Infrastructure as Code (IaC) - Writing IAM policies in AWS CloudFormation and Terraform
- Using Azure Policy and GCP Config Validator for compliance checks
- Linting and validating IAM policies with open-source tools
- Automating policy deployment through CI/CD pipelines
- Implementing drift detection and remediation workflows
- Parameterizing policies for environment-specific customization
- Creating reusable IAM module templates
- Using Sentinel or OPA (Open Policy Agent) for policy enforcement
- Integrating policy scanning into pre-commit hooks
- Managing secrets in IaC securely with external vaults
- Tagging enforcement at deployment time
- Using automated changelogs to map policy changes to deployments
Module 9: Monitoring, Logging, and Audit Trail Management - Enabling and centralizing IAM event logging (CloudTrail, Azure AD Logs, etc.)
- Creating custom log filters for high-risk IAM activities
- Detecting anomalous sign-ins and impossible travel patterns
- Mapping IAM events to MITRE ATT&CK techniques
- Using SIEM tools to correlate identity events with network data
- Building dashboards for real-time IAM health monitoring
- Automating alerts for unauthorized access attempts
- Monitoring for policy changes and privilege escalations
- Tracking root account and administrative console usage
- Creating immutable log repositories for forensic readiness
- Retention policies aligned with compliance requirements
- Performing log integrity validation and checksum verification
Module 10: Incident Response and Forensic Readiness with IAM - Designing a rapid response plan for compromised credentials
- Immediate containment actions for breached identities
- Revoking sessions and rotating credentials at scale
- Leveraging audit logs to trace attacker access paths
- Reconstructing identity timelines during incident investigations
- Identifying lateral movement through service account misuse
- Using IAM data to support legal and regulatory inquiries
- Integrating identity telemetry with SOAR platforms
- Automating bulk access suspension for compromised groups
- Forensic preservation of identity state snapshots
- Drafting post-incident access reviews and policy updates
- Implementing improved controls based on incident findings
Module 11: Zero Trust and Modern Identity Architectures - Understanding the shift from perimeter-based to identity-first security
- Zero Trust principles as defined by NIST and CISA
- Continuous authentication and adaptive authorization
- Device trust: integrating endpoint health checks into access decisions
- Implementing device compliance policies for conditional access
- Micro-segmentation using identity context
- Context-aware access based on location, time, and behavior
- Integrating risk signals from UEBA into policy engines
- Identity as a control plane in Zero Trust networks
- Replacing static passwords with phishing-resistant authenticators
- FIDO2, WebAuthn, and passkey adoption strategies
- Designing resilience into identity fallback mechanisms
Module 12: Identity Resilience and Business Continuity - Designing high-availability identity architectures
- Failover strategies for directory services and identity providers
- Backup and restore procedures for critical IAM configurations
- Securing recovery accounts with strict access controls
- Testing IAM outage scenarios through tabletop exercises
- Implementing manual access override protocols
- Creating identity runbooks for disaster recovery
- Maintaining emergency contact and approval lists
- Protecting against denial-of-identity attacks
- Validating recovery time objectives (RTO) and recovery point objectives (RPO)
- Documenting recovery procedures for auditor review
- Conducting annual identity resilience drills
Module 13: Third-Party and Partner Identity Integration - Managing external identities through B2B collaboration features
- Designing secure partner access zones with limited scopes
- Creating dedicated guest user policies and restrictions
- Federating identity with suppliers, contractors, and affiliates
- Enforcing MFA and device compliance for external users
- Time-limited partnerships with auto-expiring access
- Audit logging requirements for shared environments
- Handling data residency and sovereignty concerns
- Negotiating identity SLAs with third parties
- Managing consent and data sharing permissions
- Revoking access upon contract termination
- Using access packages and catalog-based provisioning
Module 14: IAM in DevOps and Secure Software Development - Integrating IAM into CI/CD pipelines securely
- Service account best practices for automation workflows
- Using short-lived tokens instead of long-term credentials
- Implementing dynamic credential injection at runtime
- Securing secrets in container orchestration platforms like Kubernetes
- Workload identity federation for cloud-native applications
- Principle of least privilege for build and deployment agents
- Automating access revocation for decommissioned pipelines
- Scanning code repositories for leaked IAM keys and secrets
- Enforcing IAM policy checks as pipeline gates
- Managing developer sandboxes with isolated access boundaries
- Creating dev-to-prod promotion rules with access alignment
Module 15: IAM Automation and Orchestration - Automating access requests and approvals with workflow engines
- Building approval hierarchies based on organizational structure
- Using decision tables to auto-approve low-risk requests
- Integrating with ticketing systems like ServiceNow and Jira
- Orchestrating multi-step provisioning across systems
- Scheduling periodic access reviews automatically
- Automated cleanup of unused roles and permissions
- Enabling self-service access through policy-governed portals
- Dynamic access grants based on project lifecycle stages
- Configuring auto-remediation for policy violations
- Using bots and RPA for legacy system integration
- Monitoring automation health and exception handling
Module 16: Certification and Final Implementation Project - Comprehensive review of all IAM core concepts
- Practice exercises with real-world access scenarios
- Diagnosing and fixing common IAM misconfigurations
- Building a multi-environment IAM framework from scratch
- Designing an audit-ready access governance model
- Creating a board-level presentation on IAM risk reduction
- Documenting policy exceptions and compensating controls
- Finalizing your personal IAM implementation blueprint
- Submitting your project for expert architectural review
- Receiving detailed feedback and improvement recommendations
- Tracking your mastery via built-in progress checkpoints
- Earning your Certificate of Completion from The Art of Service
- Resume and LinkedIn optimization tips for IAM roles
- Career advancement strategies using your new credentials
- Access to private professional community for continued growth
- Exclusive job board and leadership opportunity alerts
- Defining privileged accounts and their inherent risks
- Just-in-time (JIT) vs just-enough-privilege (JEP) access models
- Implementing privileged session monitoring and recording
- Time-bound elevation with automated approval workflows
- Password vaulting and checkout/check-in mechanisms
- Integrating PAM with SIEM and SOAR platforms
- Securing administrative access to cloud consoles and APIs
- Managing root accounts in AWS and Azure global admins
- Protecting domain and enterprise administrators in Active Directory
- Privilege brokering for emergency access scenarios
- High-risk privilege detection using behavioral analytics
- Creating PAM playbooks for incident response readiness
Module 7: Role Engineering and Access Modeling - Top-down vs bottom-up role design approaches
- Conducting access mining and usage pattern analysis
- Consolidating excessive roles into reusable, maintainable roles
- Role mining with visualization tools and clustering algorithms
- Defining role hierarchies and inheritance rules
- Validating roles against least privilege principles
- Role risk scoring and exposure metrics
- Handling role conflicts using segregation of duties (SoD)
- Version controlling role definitions and policy templates
- Integrating role models with IaC (Infrastructure as Code)
- Creating reusable role blueprints for Dev, Test, Prod environments
- Aligning role design with job function taxonomies
Module 8: Policy as Code and Infrastructure as Code (IaC) - Writing IAM policies in AWS CloudFormation and Terraform
- Using Azure Policy and GCP Config Validator for compliance checks
- Linting and validating IAM policies with open-source tools
- Automating policy deployment through CI/CD pipelines
- Implementing drift detection and remediation workflows
- Parameterizing policies for environment-specific customization
- Creating reusable IAM module templates
- Using Sentinel or OPA (Open Policy Agent) for policy enforcement
- Integrating policy scanning into pre-commit hooks
- Managing secrets in IaC securely with external vaults
- Tagging enforcement at deployment time
- Using automated changelogs to map policy changes to deployments
Module 9: Monitoring, Logging, and Audit Trail Management - Enabling and centralizing IAM event logging (CloudTrail, Azure AD Logs, etc.)
- Creating custom log filters for high-risk IAM activities
- Detecting anomalous sign-ins and impossible travel patterns
- Mapping IAM events to MITRE ATT&CK techniques
- Using SIEM tools to correlate identity events with network data
- Building dashboards for real-time IAM health monitoring
- Automating alerts for unauthorized access attempts
- Monitoring for policy changes and privilege escalations
- Tracking root account and administrative console usage
- Creating immutable log repositories for forensic readiness
- Retention policies aligned with compliance requirements
- Performing log integrity validation and checksum verification
Module 10: Incident Response and Forensic Readiness with IAM - Designing a rapid response plan for compromised credentials
- Immediate containment actions for breached identities
- Revoking sessions and rotating credentials at scale
- Leveraging audit logs to trace attacker access paths
- Reconstructing identity timelines during incident investigations
- Identifying lateral movement through service account misuse
- Using IAM data to support legal and regulatory inquiries
- Integrating identity telemetry with SOAR platforms
- Automating bulk access suspension for compromised groups
- Forensic preservation of identity state snapshots
- Drafting post-incident access reviews and policy updates
- Implementing improved controls based on incident findings
Module 11: Zero Trust and Modern Identity Architectures - Understanding the shift from perimeter-based to identity-first security
- Zero Trust principles as defined by NIST and CISA
- Continuous authentication and adaptive authorization
- Device trust: integrating endpoint health checks into access decisions
- Implementing device compliance policies for conditional access
- Micro-segmentation using identity context
- Context-aware access based on location, time, and behavior
- Integrating risk signals from UEBA into policy engines
- Identity as a control plane in Zero Trust networks
- Replacing static passwords with phishing-resistant authenticators
- FIDO2, WebAuthn, and passkey adoption strategies
- Designing resilience into identity fallback mechanisms
Module 12: Identity Resilience and Business Continuity - Designing high-availability identity architectures
- Failover strategies for directory services and identity providers
- Backup and restore procedures for critical IAM configurations
- Securing recovery accounts with strict access controls
- Testing IAM outage scenarios through tabletop exercises
- Implementing manual access override protocols
- Creating identity runbooks for disaster recovery
- Maintaining emergency contact and approval lists
- Protecting against denial-of-identity attacks
- Validating recovery time objectives (RTO) and recovery point objectives (RPO)
- Documenting recovery procedures for auditor review
- Conducting annual identity resilience drills
Module 13: Third-Party and Partner Identity Integration - Managing external identities through B2B collaboration features
- Designing secure partner access zones with limited scopes
- Creating dedicated guest user policies and restrictions
- Federating identity with suppliers, contractors, and affiliates
- Enforcing MFA and device compliance for external users
- Time-limited partnerships with auto-expiring access
- Audit logging requirements for shared environments
- Handling data residency and sovereignty concerns
- Negotiating identity SLAs with third parties
- Managing consent and data sharing permissions
- Revoking access upon contract termination
- Using access packages and catalog-based provisioning
Module 14: IAM in DevOps and Secure Software Development - Integrating IAM into CI/CD pipelines securely
- Service account best practices for automation workflows
- Using short-lived tokens instead of long-term credentials
- Implementing dynamic credential injection at runtime
- Securing secrets in container orchestration platforms like Kubernetes
- Workload identity federation for cloud-native applications
- Principle of least privilege for build and deployment agents
- Automating access revocation for decommissioned pipelines
- Scanning code repositories for leaked IAM keys and secrets
- Enforcing IAM policy checks as pipeline gates
- Managing developer sandboxes with isolated access boundaries
- Creating dev-to-prod promotion rules with access alignment
Module 15: IAM Automation and Orchestration - Automating access requests and approvals with workflow engines
- Building approval hierarchies based on organizational structure
- Using decision tables to auto-approve low-risk requests
- Integrating with ticketing systems like ServiceNow and Jira
- Orchestrating multi-step provisioning across systems
- Scheduling periodic access reviews automatically
- Automated cleanup of unused roles and permissions
- Enabling self-service access through policy-governed portals
- Dynamic access grants based on project lifecycle stages
- Configuring auto-remediation for policy violations
- Using bots and RPA for legacy system integration
- Monitoring automation health and exception handling
Module 16: Certification and Final Implementation Project - Comprehensive review of all IAM core concepts
- Practice exercises with real-world access scenarios
- Diagnosing and fixing common IAM misconfigurations
- Building a multi-environment IAM framework from scratch
- Designing an audit-ready access governance model
- Creating a board-level presentation on IAM risk reduction
- Documenting policy exceptions and compensating controls
- Finalizing your personal IAM implementation blueprint
- Submitting your project for expert architectural review
- Receiving detailed feedback and improvement recommendations
- Tracking your mastery via built-in progress checkpoints
- Earning your Certificate of Completion from The Art of Service
- Resume and LinkedIn optimization tips for IAM roles
- Career advancement strategies using your new credentials
- Access to private professional community for continued growth
- Exclusive job board and leadership opportunity alerts
- Writing IAM policies in AWS CloudFormation and Terraform
- Using Azure Policy and GCP Config Validator for compliance checks
- Linting and validating IAM policies with open-source tools
- Automating policy deployment through CI/CD pipelines
- Implementing drift detection and remediation workflows
- Parameterizing policies for environment-specific customization
- Creating reusable IAM module templates
- Using Sentinel or OPA (Open Policy Agent) for policy enforcement
- Integrating policy scanning into pre-commit hooks
- Managing secrets in IaC securely with external vaults
- Tagging enforcement at deployment time
- Using automated changelogs to map policy changes to deployments
Module 9: Monitoring, Logging, and Audit Trail Management - Enabling and centralizing IAM event logging (CloudTrail, Azure AD Logs, etc.)
- Creating custom log filters for high-risk IAM activities
- Detecting anomalous sign-ins and impossible travel patterns
- Mapping IAM events to MITRE ATT&CK techniques
- Using SIEM tools to correlate identity events with network data
- Building dashboards for real-time IAM health monitoring
- Automating alerts for unauthorized access attempts
- Monitoring for policy changes and privilege escalations
- Tracking root account and administrative console usage
- Creating immutable log repositories for forensic readiness
- Retention policies aligned with compliance requirements
- Performing log integrity validation and checksum verification
Module 10: Incident Response and Forensic Readiness with IAM - Designing a rapid response plan for compromised credentials
- Immediate containment actions for breached identities
- Revoking sessions and rotating credentials at scale
- Leveraging audit logs to trace attacker access paths
- Reconstructing identity timelines during incident investigations
- Identifying lateral movement through service account misuse
- Using IAM data to support legal and regulatory inquiries
- Integrating identity telemetry with SOAR platforms
- Automating bulk access suspension for compromised groups
- Forensic preservation of identity state snapshots
- Drafting post-incident access reviews and policy updates
- Implementing improved controls based on incident findings
Module 11: Zero Trust and Modern Identity Architectures - Understanding the shift from perimeter-based to identity-first security
- Zero Trust principles as defined by NIST and CISA
- Continuous authentication and adaptive authorization
- Device trust: integrating endpoint health checks into access decisions
- Implementing device compliance policies for conditional access
- Micro-segmentation using identity context
- Context-aware access based on location, time, and behavior
- Integrating risk signals from UEBA into policy engines
- Identity as a control plane in Zero Trust networks
- Replacing static passwords with phishing-resistant authenticators
- FIDO2, WebAuthn, and passkey adoption strategies
- Designing resilience into identity fallback mechanisms
Module 12: Identity Resilience and Business Continuity - Designing high-availability identity architectures
- Failover strategies for directory services and identity providers
- Backup and restore procedures for critical IAM configurations
- Securing recovery accounts with strict access controls
- Testing IAM outage scenarios through tabletop exercises
- Implementing manual access override protocols
- Creating identity runbooks for disaster recovery
- Maintaining emergency contact and approval lists
- Protecting against denial-of-identity attacks
- Validating recovery time objectives (RTO) and recovery point objectives (RPO)
- Documenting recovery procedures for auditor review
- Conducting annual identity resilience drills
Module 13: Third-Party and Partner Identity Integration - Managing external identities through B2B collaboration features
- Designing secure partner access zones with limited scopes
- Creating dedicated guest user policies and restrictions
- Federating identity with suppliers, contractors, and affiliates
- Enforcing MFA and device compliance for external users
- Time-limited partnerships with auto-expiring access
- Audit logging requirements for shared environments
- Handling data residency and sovereignty concerns
- Negotiating identity SLAs with third parties
- Managing consent and data sharing permissions
- Revoking access upon contract termination
- Using access packages and catalog-based provisioning
Module 14: IAM in DevOps and Secure Software Development - Integrating IAM into CI/CD pipelines securely
- Service account best practices for automation workflows
- Using short-lived tokens instead of long-term credentials
- Implementing dynamic credential injection at runtime
- Securing secrets in container orchestration platforms like Kubernetes
- Workload identity federation for cloud-native applications
- Principle of least privilege for build and deployment agents
- Automating access revocation for decommissioned pipelines
- Scanning code repositories for leaked IAM keys and secrets
- Enforcing IAM policy checks as pipeline gates
- Managing developer sandboxes with isolated access boundaries
- Creating dev-to-prod promotion rules with access alignment
Module 15: IAM Automation and Orchestration - Automating access requests and approvals with workflow engines
- Building approval hierarchies based on organizational structure
- Using decision tables to auto-approve low-risk requests
- Integrating with ticketing systems like ServiceNow and Jira
- Orchestrating multi-step provisioning across systems
- Scheduling periodic access reviews automatically
- Automated cleanup of unused roles and permissions
- Enabling self-service access through policy-governed portals
- Dynamic access grants based on project lifecycle stages
- Configuring auto-remediation for policy violations
- Using bots and RPA for legacy system integration
- Monitoring automation health and exception handling
Module 16: Certification and Final Implementation Project - Comprehensive review of all IAM core concepts
- Practice exercises with real-world access scenarios
- Diagnosing and fixing common IAM misconfigurations
- Building a multi-environment IAM framework from scratch
- Designing an audit-ready access governance model
- Creating a board-level presentation on IAM risk reduction
- Documenting policy exceptions and compensating controls
- Finalizing your personal IAM implementation blueprint
- Submitting your project for expert architectural review
- Receiving detailed feedback and improvement recommendations
- Tracking your mastery via built-in progress checkpoints
- Earning your Certificate of Completion from The Art of Service
- Resume and LinkedIn optimization tips for IAM roles
- Career advancement strategies using your new credentials
- Access to private professional community for continued growth
- Exclusive job board and leadership opportunity alerts
- Designing a rapid response plan for compromised credentials
- Immediate containment actions for breached identities
- Revoking sessions and rotating credentials at scale
- Leveraging audit logs to trace attacker access paths
- Reconstructing identity timelines during incident investigations
- Identifying lateral movement through service account misuse
- Using IAM data to support legal and regulatory inquiries
- Integrating identity telemetry with SOAR platforms
- Automating bulk access suspension for compromised groups
- Forensic preservation of identity state snapshots
- Drafting post-incident access reviews and policy updates
- Implementing improved controls based on incident findings
Module 11: Zero Trust and Modern Identity Architectures - Understanding the shift from perimeter-based to identity-first security
- Zero Trust principles as defined by NIST and CISA
- Continuous authentication and adaptive authorization
- Device trust: integrating endpoint health checks into access decisions
- Implementing device compliance policies for conditional access
- Micro-segmentation using identity context
- Context-aware access based on location, time, and behavior
- Integrating risk signals from UEBA into policy engines
- Identity as a control plane in Zero Trust networks
- Replacing static passwords with phishing-resistant authenticators
- FIDO2, WebAuthn, and passkey adoption strategies
- Designing resilience into identity fallback mechanisms
Module 12: Identity Resilience and Business Continuity - Designing high-availability identity architectures
- Failover strategies for directory services and identity providers
- Backup and restore procedures for critical IAM configurations
- Securing recovery accounts with strict access controls
- Testing IAM outage scenarios through tabletop exercises
- Implementing manual access override protocols
- Creating identity runbooks for disaster recovery
- Maintaining emergency contact and approval lists
- Protecting against denial-of-identity attacks
- Validating recovery time objectives (RTO) and recovery point objectives (RPO)
- Documenting recovery procedures for auditor review
- Conducting annual identity resilience drills
Module 13: Third-Party and Partner Identity Integration - Managing external identities through B2B collaboration features
- Designing secure partner access zones with limited scopes
- Creating dedicated guest user policies and restrictions
- Federating identity with suppliers, contractors, and affiliates
- Enforcing MFA and device compliance for external users
- Time-limited partnerships with auto-expiring access
- Audit logging requirements for shared environments
- Handling data residency and sovereignty concerns
- Negotiating identity SLAs with third parties
- Managing consent and data sharing permissions
- Revoking access upon contract termination
- Using access packages and catalog-based provisioning
Module 14: IAM in DevOps and Secure Software Development - Integrating IAM into CI/CD pipelines securely
- Service account best practices for automation workflows
- Using short-lived tokens instead of long-term credentials
- Implementing dynamic credential injection at runtime
- Securing secrets in container orchestration platforms like Kubernetes
- Workload identity federation for cloud-native applications
- Principle of least privilege for build and deployment agents
- Automating access revocation for decommissioned pipelines
- Scanning code repositories for leaked IAM keys and secrets
- Enforcing IAM policy checks as pipeline gates
- Managing developer sandboxes with isolated access boundaries
- Creating dev-to-prod promotion rules with access alignment
Module 15: IAM Automation and Orchestration - Automating access requests and approvals with workflow engines
- Building approval hierarchies based on organizational structure
- Using decision tables to auto-approve low-risk requests
- Integrating with ticketing systems like ServiceNow and Jira
- Orchestrating multi-step provisioning across systems
- Scheduling periodic access reviews automatically
- Automated cleanup of unused roles and permissions
- Enabling self-service access through policy-governed portals
- Dynamic access grants based on project lifecycle stages
- Configuring auto-remediation for policy violations
- Using bots and RPA for legacy system integration
- Monitoring automation health and exception handling
Module 16: Certification and Final Implementation Project - Comprehensive review of all IAM core concepts
- Practice exercises with real-world access scenarios
- Diagnosing and fixing common IAM misconfigurations
- Building a multi-environment IAM framework from scratch
- Designing an audit-ready access governance model
- Creating a board-level presentation on IAM risk reduction
- Documenting policy exceptions and compensating controls
- Finalizing your personal IAM implementation blueprint
- Submitting your project for expert architectural review
- Receiving detailed feedback and improvement recommendations
- Tracking your mastery via built-in progress checkpoints
- Earning your Certificate of Completion from The Art of Service
- Resume and LinkedIn optimization tips for IAM roles
- Career advancement strategies using your new credentials
- Access to private professional community for continued growth
- Exclusive job board and leadership opportunity alerts
- Designing high-availability identity architectures
- Failover strategies for directory services and identity providers
- Backup and restore procedures for critical IAM configurations
- Securing recovery accounts with strict access controls
- Testing IAM outage scenarios through tabletop exercises
- Implementing manual access override protocols
- Creating identity runbooks for disaster recovery
- Maintaining emergency contact and approval lists
- Protecting against denial-of-identity attacks
- Validating recovery time objectives (RTO) and recovery point objectives (RPO)
- Documenting recovery procedures for auditor review
- Conducting annual identity resilience drills
Module 13: Third-Party and Partner Identity Integration - Managing external identities through B2B collaboration features
- Designing secure partner access zones with limited scopes
- Creating dedicated guest user policies and restrictions
- Federating identity with suppliers, contractors, and affiliates
- Enforcing MFA and device compliance for external users
- Time-limited partnerships with auto-expiring access
- Audit logging requirements for shared environments
- Handling data residency and sovereignty concerns
- Negotiating identity SLAs with third parties
- Managing consent and data sharing permissions
- Revoking access upon contract termination
- Using access packages and catalog-based provisioning
Module 14: IAM in DevOps and Secure Software Development - Integrating IAM into CI/CD pipelines securely
- Service account best practices for automation workflows
- Using short-lived tokens instead of long-term credentials
- Implementing dynamic credential injection at runtime
- Securing secrets in container orchestration platforms like Kubernetes
- Workload identity federation for cloud-native applications
- Principle of least privilege for build and deployment agents
- Automating access revocation for decommissioned pipelines
- Scanning code repositories for leaked IAM keys and secrets
- Enforcing IAM policy checks as pipeline gates
- Managing developer sandboxes with isolated access boundaries
- Creating dev-to-prod promotion rules with access alignment
Module 15: IAM Automation and Orchestration - Automating access requests and approvals with workflow engines
- Building approval hierarchies based on organizational structure
- Using decision tables to auto-approve low-risk requests
- Integrating with ticketing systems like ServiceNow and Jira
- Orchestrating multi-step provisioning across systems
- Scheduling periodic access reviews automatically
- Automated cleanup of unused roles and permissions
- Enabling self-service access through policy-governed portals
- Dynamic access grants based on project lifecycle stages
- Configuring auto-remediation for policy violations
- Using bots and RPA for legacy system integration
- Monitoring automation health and exception handling
Module 16: Certification and Final Implementation Project - Comprehensive review of all IAM core concepts
- Practice exercises with real-world access scenarios
- Diagnosing and fixing common IAM misconfigurations
- Building a multi-environment IAM framework from scratch
- Designing an audit-ready access governance model
- Creating a board-level presentation on IAM risk reduction
- Documenting policy exceptions and compensating controls
- Finalizing your personal IAM implementation blueprint
- Submitting your project for expert architectural review
- Receiving detailed feedback and improvement recommendations
- Tracking your mastery via built-in progress checkpoints
- Earning your Certificate of Completion from The Art of Service
- Resume and LinkedIn optimization tips for IAM roles
- Career advancement strategies using your new credentials
- Access to private professional community for continued growth
- Exclusive job board and leadership opportunity alerts
- Integrating IAM into CI/CD pipelines securely
- Service account best practices for automation workflows
- Using short-lived tokens instead of long-term credentials
- Implementing dynamic credential injection at runtime
- Securing secrets in container orchestration platforms like Kubernetes
- Workload identity federation for cloud-native applications
- Principle of least privilege for build and deployment agents
- Automating access revocation for decommissioned pipelines
- Scanning code repositories for leaked IAM keys and secrets
- Enforcing IAM policy checks as pipeline gates
- Managing developer sandboxes with isolated access boundaries
- Creating dev-to-prod promotion rules with access alignment
Module 15: IAM Automation and Orchestration - Automating access requests and approvals with workflow engines
- Building approval hierarchies based on organizational structure
- Using decision tables to auto-approve low-risk requests
- Integrating with ticketing systems like ServiceNow and Jira
- Orchestrating multi-step provisioning across systems
- Scheduling periodic access reviews automatically
- Automated cleanup of unused roles and permissions
- Enabling self-service access through policy-governed portals
- Dynamic access grants based on project lifecycle stages
- Configuring auto-remediation for policy violations
- Using bots and RPA for legacy system integration
- Monitoring automation health and exception handling
Module 16: Certification and Final Implementation Project - Comprehensive review of all IAM core concepts
- Practice exercises with real-world access scenarios
- Diagnosing and fixing common IAM misconfigurations
- Building a multi-environment IAM framework from scratch
- Designing an audit-ready access governance model
- Creating a board-level presentation on IAM risk reduction
- Documenting policy exceptions and compensating controls
- Finalizing your personal IAM implementation blueprint
- Submitting your project for expert architectural review
- Receiving detailed feedback and improvement recommendations
- Tracking your mastery via built-in progress checkpoints
- Earning your Certificate of Completion from The Art of Service
- Resume and LinkedIn optimization tips for IAM roles
- Career advancement strategies using your new credentials
- Access to private professional community for continued growth
- Exclusive job board and leadership opportunity alerts
- Comprehensive review of all IAM core concepts
- Practice exercises with real-world access scenarios
- Diagnosing and fixing common IAM misconfigurations
- Building a multi-environment IAM framework from scratch
- Designing an audit-ready access governance model
- Creating a board-level presentation on IAM risk reduction
- Documenting policy exceptions and compensating controls
- Finalizing your personal IAM implementation blueprint
- Submitting your project for expert architectural review
- Receiving detailed feedback and improvement recommendations
- Tracking your mastery via built-in progress checkpoints
- Earning your Certificate of Completion from The Art of Service
- Resume and LinkedIn optimization tips for IAM roles
- Career advancement strategies using your new credentials
- Access to private professional community for continued growth
- Exclusive job board and leadership opportunity alerts