IT Systems: Identity and Access Management

Course details

In this age of increased and diversified access to our corporate assets, especially with the increased incidence of working from home, ensuring that the access necessary for authorized users is made readily available while at the same time prohibiting all other access becomes a significant challenge to organizations.

Identity and access management (IAM) provides systematic tools, techniques, software, reporting and monitoring apps, repositories and so forth to manage the roles and access privileges of individual users of our systems and the environment in which users are prevented or allowed access. IAM technologies include the basic access and authentication tools, the provisioning software, security policies and their enforcement, identity repositories, identity management systems and processes, for on premises, virtual and cloud-based systems.

This highly interactive LIVE Online course identifies the threats inherent in increased access through unprotected homesites, the approaches to installing, implementing and administering a cost beneficial identity and access management ecosystem. This course describes the regulatory and legal ramifications and constraints surrounding identity and access management. The course also reviews the various technologies for corporate facility perimeter protection, cloud and virtual access protection, and protecting against mobile and BYOD threats.

The course includes individual and group exercises, continuous discussions and sharing of information experiences among the participants and instructor, and work on a case study to apply the knowledge and skills learned.