IAM Foundations
The IAM Foundations track builds the vocabulary and mental model every later Identity Bytes lab assumes. These questions cover the concepts you meet in the first six labs, in the order they tend to come up.
Ten in-depth articles — one per track — explaining the concepts, protocols and controls the labs put into practice. Written as plain-English explainers and marked up with FAQ structured data for search.
The IAM Foundations track builds the vocabulary and mental model every later Identity Bytes lab assumes. These questions cover the concepts you meet in the first six labs, in the order they tend to come up.
The Entra ID Security track is a twelve-lab hardening programme for a Microsoft Entra tenant. These questions explain the controls you configure across the track and why the order matters.
The Identity Standards track gives you vendor-neutral fluency in the protocols every identity system speaks. These answers explain what each standard is for and the mistakes the labs teach you to avoid.
The SSO and Federation track shows how enterprises stitch identity providers and applications together. These answers cover the sign-on patterns and the pitfalls the labs walk you through.
The Privileged Access track is deliberately vendor-neutral — you learn the tradecraft, not one product's console. These answers explain the PAM concepts the labs put into practice with Vault and SSH.
The ZTNA track replaces implicit network trust with identity-aware access. These answers explain the zero-trust model the labs implement with Teleport and a full reference architecture.
The Cloud and Kubernetes Identity track covers how the major platforms model identity. These answers explain the primitives the labs use across AWS, GCP and Kubernetes.
The Entra and Microsoft Security track covers enterprise-scale Entra and its security integrations. These answers explain the governance and detection concepts the labs put to work.
The Governance and Lifecycle track is about keeping access correct over time. These answers explain the IGA concepts the labs implement across HR, the identity provider and downstream apps.
The Observability and SIEM track turns identity logs into detections that survive an audit. These answers explain the monitoring concepts the labs build with Grafana and Wazuh.