For months, this community has helped you understand IAM and get hands-on with free labs. Today, you can go all the way, and build a complete system with structured learning and support. The IAM Accelerator is the self-paced course that takes you from where you are now to interview-ready, with a real, working IAM system you build with your own hands. Not slides. Not theory. An actual identity system running on your own machine. Here is what is inside: ✅ Full IGA processes with hands-on on your own lab-based IGA system ✅ CIAM processes and the protocols that run them, SAML, OIDC, and OAuth, with more hands-on ✅ Advanced understanding of how IAM teams are set up and how the business and stakeholders really work ✅ Career help through regular weekly calls focused on getting you to the next level in your IAM journey ✅ A dedicated GitHub repository you build and grow as your IAM skills grow ✅ Resume, LinkedIn, and interview support targeted specifically for IAM roles Everything you build, you keep. And by the end, you can open your laptop and show a working IAM system you built yourself. This is just the start. The course is refined continuously from what works in the live cohorts, and more content and product-focused modules, on tools like Okta and others, get added over time. Your feedback shapes what comes next. This free community stays exactly as it is, and it keeps growing. The Accelerator and cohorts are for those of you ready to take the next step and go all in. Founding pricing is open for the first 30 members, then it rises. 👉 Join here: https://www.skool.com/simplifyiam-pro-5676/about 👉 See the full breakdown: https://www.simplifyiam.com/iamaccelerator Any questions, drop them below or DM me. The full FAQ answers what is covered, who it is for, and what you can get out it are here 👉FAQs

This community is for anyone looking to build real Identity and Access Management (IAM) skills for FREE. Whether you are new to IAM, you are already in IT, or you would want to enrich your IAM skills, your IAM journey starts here. No dry theory. No vendor pitches. Just real-world skills Our goal is simple: to give you the exact hands-on experience needed to land or grow in an IAM role. To get started, execute these steps: 1️⃣ Start by interacting with existing posts and discussions that might already answer your questions. Reach Level 2 to unlock posting - it only takes 6 points (6 likes) by commenting, and engaging with others. 2️⃣ Learn the Core IAM Concepts first. With real-world analogies. 3️⃣ Hands-On Lab 1: CIAM Lab - implement SSO protocols with detailed steps. 4️⃣ Hands-On Lab 2: Full IGA Lab - build core JML workflows with HR source and LDAP target. 5️⃣ Next Steps and IAM Career Roadmap - 90-day actionable plan to extend your IAM skills further. 6️⃣ Visit the Calendar Tab - add the weekly IAM call to your schedule. 7️⃣ Check this post on how to reverse engineer your IAM job search. How this community works: ✅ Post your lab problems under Lab Help ✅ If you are ahead in the learning curve, help others ✅ No vendor pitches ✅ Comment and interact to reach next levels Keep an eye on the leaderboard. Future free classrooms unlock at higher levels. You level up by actively participating, posting progress, and helping others. 🚀

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: 1. Your Lab Skills Map to Every Major IAM Tool. What each free tool is called in the market. 2. CIAM: The Other Half of Identity. The customer-identity world, its own career path. 3. 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🚀.

A lot of you have been DMing me about the self-paced course, so here's the update. It's close. The IAM Accelerator is the self-paced version of live cohort, six modules from fundamentals to a working IAM system you build with your own hands, plus real portfolio and interview prep. What makes it different: You build a real IAM system on your own machine and keep it, joiner, mover, leaver, RBAC, certification, and CIAM with OIDC, SAML and OAuth. The actual work, not vendor click-throughs. The lab is yours to extend. Like cohort members do, you can connect more apps (AD, Salesforce, a database) and grow it into something that looks like a real enterprise setup. Career prep is built in, translating your experience into IAM language, a portfolio you can demo live in an interview, and speaking like a practitioner. And to be clear: this free community stays and keeps growing. I'll keep posting quality concepts and use cases here for everyone. The Accelerator is for those who want the structured, end-to-end path. This course is coming very soon. Waitlist members get the founding price first 👉 https://join.simplifyiam.com/course-technical-waitlist Full details: https://www.simplifyiam.com/iamaccelerator/

Thursdays are our new slot. Check the Calendar tab for the join link. Tonight's topic to kick things off: Shoutout to everyone who has posted their lab wins - you are setting the standard for what hands-on IAM learning looks like. Tonight let's talk about what you built, what broke, and what use case you want to tackle next. Bring your lab questions and extensions. Open floor after as always. See you in few hours. 👆 ➡️Recording of today's meeting is available here