CAREER PATH

IAM / Identity Engineer

Identity is the perimeter in a cloud-first world. This short, focused path goes deep on the one thing every other security control depends on.

5 clusters 2 domains ~45 hours SC-300 aligned

Drag to rotate · click a node to jump straight into that domain

Who this is for

Nothing required beyond basic IT familiarity — this path assumes less prior networking knowledge than Security Engineer, since it's identity-specific.

How this path works
Each cluster below links to its real lesson page. Go in order the first time through — later clusters assume the ones before them. Once you've done a full pass, use it as reference.

The path — in order

Stack Floor

01
Active Directory — still underneath most real identity setups.
Domain 0 · Stack Floor

Identity & Security

02
Entra ID fundamentals, tenants, and B2B/B2C.
Domain 4 · Identity & Security
03
RBAC, PIM, Conditional Access, and SSO.
Domain 4 · Identity & Security
04
Where credentials and certificates actually live.
Domain 4 · Identity & Security
05
Identity governance ties directly to audit and compliance.
Domain 4 · Identity & Security

Certification this path maps to

SC-300: Identity and Access Administrator Associate

Where this leads

Security Engineer broadens out from identity into networking and threat protection. Cloud Security Architect is the senior design-level path.

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