Identity Lab
Know what good looks like in identity
A free, vendor-neutral skills framework for identity and access management, and the tools to measure yourself and your team against it.
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Identity Lab · Scorecard
Where does your identity program stand?
19 questions about what actually happens in your organization. You get a result across 6 areas and a profile straight away, with no sign-up.
Three ways in
Person, team, program
Identity capability is built in a person, in a team, and in a program. The Lab has a way in at each one, all measured against the same definition of good.
You
Where you stand against the role you want, and what to learn next, in what order.
Your team
What the team can cover, where one person is holding a domain up, and what breaks if they leave.
Your program
Who owns each decision, what to require of the tools you buy, and what a roadmap should do first.
The self-assessment
One Plan,
Fifty-eight ratings
This isn't a quiz with a score at the end. You leave with the domains that cost you most and what to do about each.
- 1Pick the role you wantAnalyst, Engineer, Senior / Lead or Architect. Every domain gets a target for that level.
- 2Rate yourself honestlyScore each capability from 0 to 5, with what good looks like beside it. Mark what isn't part of your work N/A.
- 3Get what to work on firstThe gaps that matter most, each with something to practice, something to be able to show, and where to learn it. Print it.
The framework
One definition of good
Each domain carries a weight, and each level sets a target in every domain. Read it, print it, argue with it.
- 01Identity Fundamentals & Directory Services
- 02Authentication & Credentials
- 03Federation & Identity Standards
- 04Authorization & Access Models
- 05Identity Governance & Administration
- 06Privileged Access Management
- 07Cloud & Workload Identity
- 08Zero Trust & Modern Identity Architecture
- 09Identity Threats & Security Operations
- 10Compliance, Risk & Audit
- 11Automation & Engineering
- 12Communication & Professional Skills
- 13Customer IAM (CIAM) · optional
Members
There's more inside
Fifteen tools in four rooms.
Further reading
Behind the Lab
- The Box Is Not the ProgramWhere IAM Should Report, and Why It Keeps MovingBehind the ownership test
- Two Jobs, One AcronymWhat IGA Was Always Supposed to MeanBehind the governance domain
- The Silent WorkforceYour Machines Outnumber Your People 109 to 1, and Nobody Owns ThemBehind the non-human identity worksheet