Identity & Access Management (IAM) Expert – Governance, Access Control and Implementation

In this 5-day training, you will learn how to gain control over digital identities, authorisations, and access risks. Discover how to successfully implement, govern and future-proof IAM within your organisation, while gaining insight into current developments such as Zero Trust, cloud, non-human identities, AI agents and IGA.

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Identity & Access Management (IAM) Expert – training options

Option 1: 5-day training (in-class and live online)
Option 2: In-company training (in-class and live online)

Control over digital identities, access rights and risks with IAM

Identity & Access Management (IAM) is the collective term for the processes, policies, architecture and technologies that organisations use to manage identities and authorisations. IAM has become a critical foundation for information security, risk management, privacy, compliance and digital operations. Today, organisations need to maintain control not only over their own employees and their authoristions, but also over customers, suppliers, partners and digital identities such as cloud applications, service accounts, APIs, machines, robots, and AI agents.

In this practical 5-day IAM Expert training, you will gain insight into the strategic, organisational and technical aspects of IAM. You will learn how to manage identities and access rights effectively, reduce risks, and better prepare, steer, assess and improve IAM initiatives within your organisation.

Do you want verifiable control over who - human or machine - has access to which systems, data and processes? This 5-day IAM Expert training provides you with the knowledge and practical tools to achieve this.

Why IAM projects succeed - or fail

The number of digital identities and access rights is growing rapidly. Cloud applications, hybrid working, supply-chain collaboration, SaaS solutions, API integrations and AI applications make organisations more flexible, but also increase the risks associated with access, misuse and insufficient control.

At the same time, requirements relating to information security, privacy, audit, legislation, regulation and internal control are becoming more stringent, such as the GDPR, ISO 2700x, NIS2, NIST and sector-specific regulations.

However, many IAM initiatives do not deliver the desired outcome. Projects can stall/fail due to unclear ownership, inadequate processes, an excessive focus on tools, insufficient business involvement, complex legacy environments, or too little attention to governance and implementation.

During this training, you will learn how to avoid these pitfalls. You will gain insight into the decisions required for a successful IAM approach and learn how to critically steer governance, processes, architecture, suppliers and outcomes.

What will you learn in this IAM training?

Over 5 intensive training days, you will gain an integrated and practical understanding of Identity & Access Management (IAM). You will not only learn the foundations of identity management, authorisation management and access governance, but will also explore current topics such as Zero Trust, PAM, CIAM, non-human identities, AI agents, IGA, privacy and NIS2. The knowledge and practical tools gained during this training will better prepare you to successfully initiate, guide, assess and improve IAM initiatives within your organisation.

You will a.o. learn:

• How to manage digital identities throughout their entire lifecycle
• The role of IAM in modern, hybrid and cloud-driven organisations
• How to structure, manage and review authorisations logically, while preventing excessive access rights
• How to apply Role Based, Attribute Based and Policy Based Access Control (RBAC, ABAC and PBAC), Access Governance and Zero Trust within your IAM approach
• How to manage privileged accounts and customer identities using Privileged Access Management (PAM) and Consumer Identity & Access Management (CIAM)
• How cloud environments, containerisation, federated identities and modern protocols affect identity and access management
• How to gain control over non-human identities, such as service accounts, APIs, robots and AI agents
• How to successfully establish an IAM or IGA initiative, determine its scope, create stakeholder support, and assess suppliers or solutions
• Which common pitfalls can delay or undermine IAM projects, and how to avoid them
• How to link IAM to privacy, information security, risk management, compliance and relevant legislation, regulations and standards, such as ISO 2700x, NIS2 and NIST
• How to translate IAM controls into concrete risks, control measures and measurable outcomes
• How to communicate effectively about IAM with management, auditors, and security, risk, compliance, HR and IT professionals.

IAM training - format and results

This IAM training is practical, interactive and strategic in nature. Throughout the programme, you will work with real-life IAM challenges, examples and practical tools that you can apply directly within your own organisation.

After completing the training, you will be better equipped to identify, analyse and prioritise IAM-related challenges and risks, including those related to identities, authorisations, privileged access, non-human identities and AI agents. You will be able to assess IAM processes, roles and responsibilities, contribute to the development of an IAM roadmap or improvement programme, and better prepare and steer IAM projects and implementations.

The training will also help you to critically assess IAM solutions, proposals and suppliers, and to translate IAM objectives into effective compliance, risk control and measurable outcomes. In addition, you will be better able to connect the perspectives of business, IT, security, privacy, risk and audit, contributing to a successful, controlled and verifiable IAM implementation.

Who should attend this IAM training?

Identity & Access Management (IAM) is explicitly not solely an IT issue. A successful IAM approach requires close collaboration between business, IT, security, HR, risk, compliance, privacy, and audit. Whether you are responsible for processes and ownership from a business perspective, the technical design or implementation from an IT perspective, or assessment and control from a security, audit, risk or compliance perspective, this training provides you with a shared framework and practical tools to steer a successful IAM approach.

Relevant roles include, among others: Identity & Access Management (IAM) managers and specialists, process managers, IT managers, information managers, heads of information security, Chief Information Security Officers (CISOs), security officers, IT auditors and internal auditors, network managers and administrators, security and information architects, risk managers, compliance managers, privacy officers, HR managers, controllers, project and programme managers, and all professionals responsible for IAM projects, governance or supplier selection.

IAM is no longer solely a technical topic. It is a business-critical challenge at the intersection of business, IT, security, risk, compliance and HR.

Prerequisites and educational level of the training

The trainer assumes that you have several years of professional experience and understand how organisations, processes and responsibilities function in practice. In-depth technical knowledge is not required. However, an affinity with information management, information security, business processes, governance, audit or risk management is desirable. Your own practical experience is highly valuable: you will not only learn from your trainers, but also from the challenges, perspectives and insights shared by your fellow participants.

This 5-day IAM Expert training is held on a bachelor level.

Continuing Professional Education (CPE) credits

You will receive a personal certificate of participation, which you may submit when applying for CPE credits from professional associations.