Identity and access management is the foundation for access controls in the enterprise, a mission-critical IT function that is both the lifeblood of your business, and a frustrating and difficult topic. Your infrastructure is more complicated, with more moving parts, and more partners across the enterprise, than any other security related service. This interactive session, taught by an experienced practitioner, provides an architectural view to resolving identity challenges, and will provide detailed and informative discussions on directory services, web access management, Single Sign-on, federated identity, authorization, provisioning, and more. This course will provide a level-set on the fundamental building blocks to an enterprise solution, as well as a customized, detailed, and interactive session to focus on the specific identity disciplines that professionals find most challenging.Course Modules
Who should attendParticipants should have a basic background in information security, IT systems, and identity management. After the class, participants should feel well grounded in identity management, understand the broad landscape from both a technical as well as a business perspective, and have gained practical insight into the strategies which will enable them to meet identity challenges in their organizations.
Instructor:Mark Williams, CISSP-ISSAP, Authorized (ISC)² InstructorMark Williams, CISSP, ISSAP, is Vice President and a founding partner of Tactical Security, Inc. located in the Greater Harrisburg, Pennsylvania area. Tactical Security, Inc. provides content services for the creation of Instructor Led Training (ILT), online, e-Learning training, and self-study knowledge products for IT security curriculums and courseware. TSI incorporates instructional design methodology in the creation of knowledge transfer solutions for professional training and certification programs. Mr. Williams is responsible for content development and serves as Subject Matter Expert for network and security curriculum, courseware, and content development projects for TSI.Mr. Williams’ has been in the Information Technology and Information Security / Assurance fields for 20 + years. During this time, Mr. Williams has developed or delivered security courses pertaining to ethical hacking, security fundamentals, VoIP, network administration and management. Mr. Williams has provided training services for Fortune 100 companies, federal, state and local governments.Prior to the founding of TSI, Mr. Williams was an instructor and consultant with Communication Technology Solutions incorporated. Mr. Williams also served nine years in the United States Navy and subsequently worked as a defense contractor at the Air Combat Environment Test and Evaluation Facility (ACETEF). In this role, Mr. Williams was the Network Operations Manager and Information Systems Security Manager.Education and Credentials:• Certified Information Security Manager (CISM)