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Learn identity the way it actually works... with IDAC!
Identity and access management runs every sign-in, every badge swipe, every “who approved this?” And most people learn it the hard way, one outage and one audit finding at a time.
We built a better way. It’s a free video series from Identity at the Center that takes you from your first day in identity to designing a program from scratch.
Every episode follows Barbara, who joins the identity team at Ridgeline, an outdoor gear company with stores, a warehouse, a factory and an online shop. Ridgeline has the same problems your company has: too many accounts, leavers who never really leave, apps nobody remembers connecting. Art, the team’s engineer, shows her how things work. Denise from audit keeps asking the hard questions. And Grift, the attacker, keeps finding the gaps. You learn each idea the moment Barbara needs it, and you see why it matters before anyone defines it.
No vendor pitches. When a product shows up, it’s only an example of a standard.
IAM 101: The Foundations of Identity and Access Management
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Start here if identity is new to you. Over 36 short episodes, you'll follow Barbara from her first day at Ridgeline as she learns how a company decides who you are, how you prove it, and what you're allowed to do. We cover digital identity, passwords, multi-factor authentication (MFA) and passkeys, roles and least privilege, joiners, movers and leavers, single sign-on, access reviews, privileged access, zero trust, and where you could fit on an identity team. No experience needed.
IAM 201: How Identity and Access Management Works
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The next step after IAM 101. Across 40 episodes, Barbara and Art open the hood on the systems behind every sign-in, one step-by-step diagram at a time. You'll see how directories, Kerberos and cloud identity providers really work, how passwords are stored and MFA is built, and what actually travels inside SAML, OAuth 2.0, OpenID Connect and JSON Web Tokens. Then it's provisioning, governance, privileged and machine access, and modern architecture. Made for practitioners who want the detail.
IAM 301: Advanced Identity Security and Architecture
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Expert topics for people who already run identity programs. Across 33 episodes, we look at how attackers break OAuth, SAML, Kerberos and Active Directory, and the defenses that stop them, from sender-constrained tokens to MFA that resists phishing. Then it's identity at scale: mergers, global customer identity, machine identity and multi-cloud entitlements. We finish with what's next, from verifiable credentials and AI agent identity to post-quantum cryptography, plus how to lead, fund and measure an IAM program.