Identity and Access Management

The building blocks of a secure system

This course will cover

• Authentication systems - design, implementation, and use of third party services.
• Common vulnerabilities while working with passwords and how to avoid these pitfalls.
• Authorization systems - design and implementation for backend and frontend.
• Basic security best practices and key principals to keep in mind.

Prerequisite expectations

We expect that you have pre-existing knowledge in the following areas. We've included a few Recap concepts to help refresh your memory for this course.

• Basic frontend or backend implementation (e.g. Javascript/HTML/Python/Flask)
• Network communication (i.e., HTTP)
• Structured Query Language (SQL) using SQLAlchemy
• API Development (REST)

This course will not cover

• Advanced security principals.
• Penetration testing, red teaming, vulnerability detection.
• "Hacking" and tools and systems to perform nefarious actions.
• DevOps, Deployments, Scaling or maintaining these systems in the cloud