Introduction to Identity and Access Management

Explore the basic concepts of identity and access management, a critical component of your company’s security framework that controls access to your systems and resources.

Introduction

• The importance of identity and access management
• What you should know

1. Key Concepts for Identity

• Authentication, authorization, and accounting
• Authentication deep dive
• Users, groups, systems, assets, and permissions
• Access control principles

2. Applying Authentication in Your Organization

• Better together: Identity providers and identity governance
• Single sign-on
• Federation

3. Applying Authorization in Your Organization

• Least privilege
• Provisioning
• Identity lifecycle

4. Advanced Tips and Tricks

• Zero trust
• Role mining
• Conditional access and just-in-time access
• An important side note on passwords

Conclusion

• Next steps