Course Description
Explore user, device, and software authentication using accounts. Strengthening security through multi-factor authentication and using identify federation and single sign-on are also discussed.
Learning Objectives
System Security Certified Practitioner (SSCP 2018): Identity Management
- Course Overview
- describe IAM
- list IAM lifecycle phases including provisioning, de-provisioning, proofing, authorization, entitlement, and maintenance
- describe examples of IAM systems
- implement IAM in an Active Directory environment
- implement IAM in an AWS environment
- describe how users, devices, and application authentication provides resource access
- compare single-factor and multi-factor authentication
- configure multi-factor authentication for an AWS IAM user account
- login to test multi-factor authentication for an AWS IAM user account
- configure access and secret keys to allow AWS CLI access to the AWS cloud
- describe how identity trust relationships work internally and externally
- determine when SSO should be used
- describe the relevance of IAM and authentication