IAM Explained - Beginner Fundamentals Workshop

Yeah. So, welcome everybody um to today's session. Um thanks for taking the time again. You know, it's a Saturday morning. Uh at least for me, it's the morning, but some of you might, you know, be in the afternoon, the evening by now. So, we're going to talk about am um often return, you know,

basically it's identity access management, but a lot of people call it AM. So, if you hear AM um identity and access management is what it stands for, right? So, if you're exploring cyber security or any kind of IT career, um you'll hear it a lot. Um, but a lot of people have never really seen a clear

explan explanation on how IM actually works. Um, so we're going to get into sort of the details. So the goal is to change that today, right? We're going to walk through what IM actually is, the core concepts behind the identity systems, how identity platforms work in real environments, and where IM fits into security careers. Because if you're

here, you're likely thinking about your career, right? Obviously, you're here because you want to level up. You want to you want to go up to the next step in your career. So, by the end of this session, you should walk away with what I call a mental model of how AM systems work,

right? Which is some people uh something, you know, most people only figure out after years of the field, right? It's not something that a lot of people dive in and learn right away, but we're going to change that today. We're going to start off with the basics. And that really is my approach to learning

IM. We're gonna start off with fundamentals concepts and then we're gonna ramp you up uh in later sessions. So, moving along here. Um so, a little bit about me. I'm not going to go too far, but uh in terms of my my uh my background here, but I've been in the IT and security field for about man about