What you'll learn

Weak access controls and unclear privacy practices put organizational data at risk, especially as identities and information spread across cloud environments. In this course, Identity, Privacy, and Data Protection, you'll gain the ability to design and apply secure identity, access, privacy, and data protection strategies across organizational and cloud environments. First, you'll explore the fundamentals of Identity and Access Management (IAM), including authentication, authorization, PKI, MFA, hardware tokens, Active Directory, Just-in-Time access, and Zero Trust Architecture. You'll learn how these approaches help protect confidentiality and integrity while reducing business risk. Next, you'll discover how data privacy and protection work throughout the data lifecycle. You'll distinguish between technical security controls and regulatory privacy requirements, map data processing activities to security requirements, and apply privacy-by-design principles to organizational workflows and engineering practices. Finally, you'll learn how to secure identities and distributed access in cloud environments. You'll evaluate cloud IAM and Identity as a Service (IDaaS) solutions, understand key cloud storage security configurations, and place IAM within the wider context of security architecture and engineering. When you're finished with this course, you'll have the skills and knowledge of identity, privacy, and data protection needed to make informed security decisions, design effective access strategies, and protect organizational data across traditional and cloud environments.