A cohort member asked this week in Pro community.
The answer: IAM is concepts, not products. Joiner-leaver, role-based access, reconciliation, consent flows, these are the same ideas in every tool. SailPoint, Saviynt, Okta are each one vendor's version of things you can learn for free, today, on Open-source products, on your own machine.
You cannot get a free SailPoint to practise on. You can run midPoint, OpenLDAP, and a free Auth0 tenant (from Okta) today. The concept is the skill. The product name is the added label to it.
Three short lessons in the IAM Concepts classroom:
- Your Lab Skills Map to Every Major IAM Tool. What each free tool is called in the market.
- CIAM: The Other Half of Identity. The customer-identity world, its own career path.
- IGA or CIAM: Knowing Which World a Job Is In. How to tell an IGA job from a CIAM job.
Let's build the next use case using free labs🚀.