A foundational course on Identity, Credential, and Access Management for federal staff who need to understand the identity layer without becoming identity engineers. 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 PIV card are not equivalent controls — the distinction agencies are under the most pressure on right now. 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 federal assurance-level model (IAL, AAL, and FAL), PIV credentials in federal environments, Zero Trust access decisions, RBAC and ABAC, and an introduction to SAML, OAuth, and OpenID Connect.
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The instructor was wonderful and so knowledgeable. The course materials were extremely relevant to what my job is. I feel like I can be better because of this class.
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Since 1921, Graduate School USA has partnered with over 125 federal agencies and trained more than one million federal employees. Led by instructors with deep, real-world knowledge of federal regulations, policies, and practices, our private group programs are practical, mission-driven, and tailored to your agency’s objectives. We offer expertise across key federal domains—including human resources, financial management, acquisition and contracting, leadership, and more—to deliver training where and how your team needs it.
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