A foundational course on Identity, Credential, and Access Management for anyone who needs to understand the identity layer without becoming an identity engineer. It runs the full chain in order — identity, proofing, authentication and MFA, authorization, federation, and finally the access decision itself — so each piece arrives with the previous one already in place.
The MFA material is what buyers are asking for. Most identity training stops at "turn on MFA." This course explains which MFA, and why. Rather than treating multifactor as one checkbox, it separates the authenticator types, sets out the assurance levels behind them, and works through the attacks aimed squarely at MFA: phishing, MFA fatigue, credential theft, and adversary-in-the-middle. Participants finish able to explain why a push notification and a hardware security key are not equivalent controls. The closing module is applied. Participants work short scenario exercises framed as "Should this user get access?", pulling identity, credential, authentication, and authorization together into a single judgment, the way a Zero Trust access decision is actually made. Across the course participants work with the IAL, AAL, and FAL assurance-level model, PIV and other hardware-backed credentials, Zero Trust access decisions, RBAC and ABAC, and an introduction to SAML, OAuth, and OpenID Connect.
Basic cybersecurity knowledge.
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Attend this course live online or as self-paced training. Engage with expert instructors, ask questions, and get feedback on your exercises and projects.
Unlike other providers, these are not mass open-enrollment classes. At Noble Desktop, you’ll learn in small groups (typically 8-15 students) and receive personalized attention.
Get the same interactivity and access to the instructor as in-person students. There are no extra fees and we’ll work with you to ensure your remote setup is perfect.
Learn at your own pace with pre-recorded video lessons and hands-on exercises. Work through the material on your schedule with access to course content and resources.
Upon completion of this course, you’ll receive an official certificate testifying to your mastery of the curriculum. We’ll send you a link where you can download your certificate, share it online with your friends, post it to your professional network on LinkedIn, and view all your earned certificates. Congratulations on your achievement!
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We offer a single free retake of the class within a year.
You can also access recordings of each session in your student portal within one business day of the session’s end. Recordings are available for one month after the session.
Anyone who touches identity or access in any capacity: system administrators, help desk and account provisioning staff, security staff, and program or project staff who approve access requests. Also suitable for anyone preparing to work on Zero Trust or modern access projects.
Basic cybersecurity knowledge.
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