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The civilization built on your digital terrain. Who gets in, what they can touch, and how trust is established.
No experience required · 12 hours · Completely free
In any civilization, you need to know who belongs and who does not. Identity Access and Trust is about exactly that: controlling who can enter your digital environment, what they can do once inside, and how trust is continuously verified rather than assumed. Every time you log into a system, swipe a badge, or use your fingerprint to unlock your phone, you are interacting with identity and access controls. Now multiply that by thousands of employees, contractors, service accounts, API keys, and machine identities. This domain teaches you how organizations manage that complexity. You will learn about authentication (proving who you are), authorization (controlling what you can do), multi-factor authentication, single sign-on, and the revolutionary zero trust approach that assumes no one should be trusted by default, not even users already inside the network.
ZPA: Zero Possession Architecture
“Trust nothing. Possess nothing. Verify everything.”
Six modules. 12 hours. Each one builds on the last. By the end, you will have a solid foundation in identity access & trust.
What identity means in cybersecurity. Users, services, devices, and machine identities.
Passwords, MFA, biometrics, and passwordless authentication. How we prove who we are.
RBAC, ABAC, least privilege. Controlling what authenticated users can do.
SSO, SAML, OIDC. How organizations manage identity across systems.
Never trust, always verify. The principles of zero trust architecture.
Guided practical: review an access control model, identify excessive privileges, recommend improvements.
Identity Access & Trust opens doors to real cybersecurity careers. Here are roles that professionals in this domain fill every day.
Build and maintain identity and access management systems. Configure directories, SSO, and provisioning workflows.
Design network and application architectures based on zero trust principles. One of the fastest-growing roles in security.
Manage privileged access: admin accounts, service accounts, and emergency access procedures.
Ensure access policies are followed, conduct access reviews, and manage role-based access control.
Connect identity systems across organizations using SAML, OIDC, and SCIM protocols.
Manage Active Directory, Azure AD, and other directory platforms that form the backbone of enterprise identity.
Zero Possession Architecture (ZPA)
“Trust nothing. Possess nothing. Verify everything.”
Traditional IAM training focuses on configuring tools. CDA's Zero Possession Architecture (ZPA) teaches a deeper principle: trust nothing, possess nothing, verify everything. This is not just about deploying MFA. It is about building systems where access is continuously earned, never permanently granted. You will learn to think about identity as the new perimeter, not as an IT administration task. Every access decision is a security decision.
You are standing at the start of a 328-hour journey to domain mastery. The first 12 hours are free.
Start your cybersecurity journey in identity access & trust today. Everything you need to take the first step is right here.