Beyond the Login
The identity management academy
Beyond the Login is an educational playground that is currently in Beta testing. We have over 300 lessons and hands-on labs planned to help you learn identity from the ground up, piece by piece, while developing marketable, real-world skills.
- How people, applications, and services establish identity and trust
- How access is granted, enforced, reviewed, and removed
- How protocols, policies, and security controls work together in practice
Identity is more than just a login. #
Consider the world around you. Identity runs through so much of what we do: presenting a passport or identification card, entering a PIN or one-time password, badging into a workplace, or using biometrics to enter a secure area. Who you are, what you know, and what you possess can all play a part in how trust and access are established.
Every day, we rely on the way identity controls are implemented. For those of us designing, building, and securing these systems, understanding the decisions behind those controls is essential.
Who this is for #
Identity and Access Management (IAM) is a branch of cybersecurity, and it now sits at the center of nearly every IT system. Beyond the Login is for anyone moving into the field, and for people already in IAM roles who want to strengthen their understanding.
Our aim is to build your skills to an engineer's level. You can start from the fundamentals with no IAM background, but expect the material to get technical and hands-on quickly. Prior IT or software experience will make the early lessons easier.
Lessons focus on the real systems enterprises deploy and depend on every day, and on the protocols, flows, and configuration that IAM engineers and architects work with directly.
From concepts to practice #
The goal is to make the details approachable without losing what makes them important. Each lesson connects a clear explanation to examples you can follow and inspect, and each has a lab where you try the idea yourself.
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Understand the problem
Start with the question a technology or policy answers, the people and systems involved, and the trust between them.
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See how it works
Follow a protocol exchange, inspect a credential, or trace an access decision. Connect each step to the concept behind it.
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Put it into practice
Work through examples, change a configuration, and investigate failures. Learn both how to implement something and why it behaves the way it does.