Identity and Access Management

Explore the fundamentals of identity and access management, its core components—identity management, password management, RBAC, MFA, and SSO—and how IT admins secure access to digital assets.

Identify core IAM components: identity, password management, RBAC, MFA, and SSO, then explore federated identity management and token-based authentication across applications.

Refresh your understanding of identity and access management with four knowledge checks, each presenting a single question, and review key concepts before proceeding to the next section.

Conclude the lecture on introduction to iam and preview the next session that will elaborate on the importance of the iam technology.

Explore the importance of IAM and how it helps organizations; learn what IAM provides to the enterprise and how it works, including its role in organizational security and compliance.

Identity and access management demonstrates why IAM is the first line of defense for protecting digital assets across centralized and distributed environments from cyber attacks and ransomware.

Identify, authenticate, and authorize stakeholders by leveraging hardware, software applications, and tools that manage identities and access control to protect enterprise assets from cyber criminals.

Identity and access management acts as the enterprise facade, ensuring employees, partners, and vendors access assets through identification, authentication, and authorization, while reducing security costs and enabling right access controls.

Understand how identity and access management coordinates identification, authentication, authorization, and access control to secure enterprise apps through single sign-on, multi-factor and biometric authentication.

Explore how identity and access management secures enterprise web applications by acting as the entry point, enforcing role-based access, and integrating with data analytics and CRM.

Explore how compliance governs IAM implementations by capturing policy hierarchies from company to local and national regulations, guiding IAM tools to meet regulatory requirements such as HIPAA, SOX, and GLBA.

Explore the basics and terminologies of identity and access management, including identification, authentication, authorization, auditing, logging, multifactor authentication, digital identity, and single sign-on.

Identify the user using security attributes and authenticate the claimed identity. Authorize access rights to digital assets, audit and report on access attempts, and log events.

Explore the key terminologies of identity and access management, including Active Directory, LDAP, biometric authentication, credentials, digital identity, and identity lifecycle management.

Explore SAML, an XML-based standard for secure communications, enabling identity providers to pass credentials to service providers in federated identity ecosystems.

Explore how OAuth 2.0 enables open standard authorization with authorization tokens, allowing access without sharing usernames or passwords. See how Google, Facebook, GitHub, and LinkedIn illustrate sign-in with a provider.

OpenID Connect builds an authentication protocol on the Watch 2.0 framework, introduces an ID token with identity scopes, and enables interoperable, stateful user authentication and profile sharing.

Explore how the lightweight directory access protocol enables client-server access to and modification of internet directories, supporting vendor-neutral communication with Active Directory, OpenLDAP, and other services.

Explore active directory and federated identity concepts, including security tokens and context based access management. Learn about LDAP, Kerberos, SAML, OAuth, and OpenID Connect to strengthen authentication and risk-based decisions.

Explore how identity and access management operates in enterprise and cloud environments, compare enterprise versus cloud models, and examine directory services and cloud complaints.

Define enterprise as a for-profit business, a unit of economic activity, and a risky undertaking, often associated with large multinational firms with over 10,000 employees and $1 billion in turnover.

cloud computing provides on-demand access to data storage and computing power over the internet, delivering services from infrastructure to software models (iaas, paas, saas) and private, public, or hybrid deployments.

Discover enterprise cloud computing and pay-as-you-go models, and examine the service stack from infrastructure as a service to software as a service, plus database and function as a service.

Identity and access management secures multi-tenant cloud environments by provisioning identities, authenticating users, and enabling single sign-on with SAML or OpenID Connect across public, private, and hybrid clouds.

Explore cloud compliance via a dashboard that scores GDPR, NIST, and ISO, audit gaps, and the actions needed to protect IBM software and services.

Explore how cloud directory services shift identity management from local directories to directory as a service, using LDAP, Kerberos, SAML, and OAuth, with DaaS advantages.

Explore the design and architecture of identity and access management, outlining typical implementations, challenges, and how iam services support enterprises.

Identify and manage diverse users and groups—from employees to contractors and partners—across intranet and internet access, while addressing mergers, demergers, and evolving hierarchies with architecture-driven identity and access management.

Architect IAM as a non-monolithic system of multiple software solutions and services built on industry best practices, with a directory services layer using LDAP to access identities from Active Directory.

This figure illustrates a typical IBM IAM architecture with authentication management, access management, user management, authorization management, data management and provisioning, and monitoring for audit.

Examine how IAM services to enterprises blend architecture with technology components, anchored by Active Directory, to support authentication, user management, provisioning, and federation with centralized authentication and authorization.

Explore a bird's-eye view of amazon's IAM architecture, mapping AWS terms such as principals, resources, identities, entities, requests, authentication, authorization, and policies to IAM concepts.

Examine the IAM architecture implementation in a typical vendor setup, linking the centralized identity management system with master data management, ticketing, and multiple identity sources.

Explore the IAM lifecycle and its stages, including provisioning, authentication, authorization, self-service and password management, compliance, and centralization of IAM.

Explore the life cycle concept from biology to software development and digital assets, detailing the SDLC phases—requirement analysis, defining, designing, developing, testing, deployment.

Explore the IAM lifecycle, from provisioning and onboarding employees with resource allocations to authentication, authorization, self-service password management, compliance, and de-provisioning.

Explore IAM centralization for enterprises, enabling centralized management with loose coupling to applications during login and logout. Learn IAM lifecycle management and test your knowledge with MCQs.

Explore enterprise roles, IAM basics, and the workings of user access management, including MFA, SAML, and Active Directory, to secure identity and access across an organization.

Explore how identity and access management handles the vast variety of enterprise users—from employees and executives to clients, partners, and vendors—through classification and hierarchy.

Discover how enterprise roles differ across users and departments, and how mapping roles to privileges controls access to digital assets and resources.

Explore typical enterprise roles from executive to operations levels, including CEO, CFO, CMO, CTO, and managers, and learn how these positions drive strategy, operations, and growth.

Manage user access by mapping roles to identities and governing identity lifecycle, enabling secure, policy-driven access to enterprise resources through Active Directory or OpenLDAP.

Apply the principle of least privilege and limit superuser access to admins. Plan privileges, manage passwords, and review access regularly to balance security with workflow.

Analyze typical GIS enterprise user types—viewers, editors, field workers, creators, GIS professionals, insight analysts, and storytellers—and how roles and privileges guide access.

Manage user access across enterprise apps with UEM software, Active Directory, and LDAP. Provide provisioning and de-provisioning, single sign-on, MFA, RBAC, and policy compliance.

Enable end user access management through centralized single sign-on for multiple apps and domains, using LDAP protocols, with RBAC-based authorization to reduce complexity and boost productivity.

Explore how multifactor authentication strengthens user access management by combining username and password with biometric factors, supported by SAML-based identity sources, for secure enterprise access.

Explore Saml 2.0 as the standard for exchanging authentication and authorization identities between security domains. Identify identity providers including Okta, Azure Active Directory, OneLogin, and PingFederate to manage user access.

Explore Active Directory fundamentals, including domains, trees, and forests, and how trusts manage access across organization boundaries. Learn how connectors enable identity lifecycle management with LDAP, SAML, and MFA.

Explore privileged access management, including what privileges and privileged users are, how Pam works, and why it matters. Compare Pam to Iam and review the benefits and best practices.

Define privileges as allowing users to perform certain actions in computer security, with ordinary users blocked from changing operating system files and administrators permitted, enforced by file permissions and ACLs.

Identify and manage privileged users across systems, including root, domain admin, local admin, emergency accounts, and non-human access via application and service accounts, keys, secrets, and API keys.

Discover how privileged access management secures elevated-privilege accounts across on-premises and cloud resources, and delivers security, adaptability, and visibility to monitor and control privileged sessions.

Leverage context-based privileged access management to evaluate login circumstances and grant, deny, or prompt for adaptive MFA, enabling passwordless options and real-time risk-based authentication.

Strengthen security with privileged access management by limiting privileges, monitoring privileged abuse, and enforcing removal of local admin rights on endpoints to support compliance and audits.

Enforce privileged access via a PAM portal, protect credentials in a password vault, require justification and approvals, monitor live sessions, rotate passwords, and apply MFA and ML risk scoring.

Differentiate privileged access management from identity and access management by focusing on administrators and privileged users, while IAM handles general access to on-prem and cloud resources.

Privilege access management protects against cyber criminals and insiders while boosting productivity and ensuring compliance through centralized controls, real-time alerts, and auditable privileged sessions.

Apply privileged access management best practices to strengthen security posture. Isolate tier zero access, enforce MFA, rotate passwords, secure credentials, and manage SSH keys, secrets, and SaaS admins.

Explore what access provisioning is, the APIs of access, provisioning concepts, and compare OAuth and OpenID Connect with SAML.

Explore access provisioning, coordinating user account creation, password management, email authorizations, and security tasks, with role-based permissions and lifecycle management across all systems.

Explore the four types of access provisioning—discretionary, self-service, workflow-based, and automated account provisioning—and how centralized management, manager approvals, and password policies shape access decisions.

Explore access provisioning and federated authentication using SAML, OAuth 2.0, and OpenID Connect, compare their workflows, and enable single sign-on across enterprise resources.

Compare and contrast OAuth 2.0, OpenID Connect, and SAML to understand how identity providers enable secure federated access, single sign-on, and delegated authorization.