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Skill

Identity and Access Management

IAM controls who can access what in your systems. It's about authentication, authorization, and ensuring the right people have the right access.

Infrastructure

Learning path

Master authentication methods, learn directory services, practice IAM.

Career relevance

Key for security engineers, identity specialists, cloud architects.

Practice projects

  • Set up single sign-on with Keycloak

    Run Keycloak locally, connect a sample app over OpenID Connect and require multi-factor authentication for one group of users.

    What you'll have: A working sign-on flow you can demonstrate and explain.

  • Review access like an auditor

    Export users and groups from a lab directory, find accounts with more access than their job needs and write the changes you'd make.

    What you'll have: An access review with least-privilege fixes.

Certifications teaching Identity and Access Management

Entry1

CompTIA

Entry

CompTIA Security+

Vendor-neutral proof of core security administration skills, tested partly through performance-based tasks and mapped by CompTIA to DoD 8140 work roles

Exam
$439
Study
3-6 months

Intermediate1

Expert1