IAM Training
From Core Platform to AI-Era Security
Learn Okta. Build end-to-end IAM capability. Understand enterprise identity. Prepare for the AI-driven identity era.
A practitioner-led 50-hour training programme designed for beginners and aspiring IAM professionals. Learn Okta end to end, from foundations and identity security through AI and agentic identity.
This programme is designed as an end-to-end journey — from IAM and Okta foundations, through advanced Okta capabilities and identity security, to AI + Identity and agentic identity. The goal is to help learners build practical engineering and architecture capability.
Weekly mentorship and the IAM + AI Reality sessions sit outside the 50 hours of live Okta training.
Instructor
Get guided by real-world experience and practical insights.
Principal IAM Architect
Practical learning, real-world use cases and mentorship to help you grow in the Identity and Okta ecosystem.
Course walkthrough
A trainer-led course walkthrough and demo class.
Most Okta courses focus on a specific certification or limited product capabilities. This programme goes beyond certification preparation to build complete Okta engineering capability — from IAM foundations to advanced Okta, identity security, and AI + Identity.
Two dedicated modules cover AI identity, Shadow AI, NHI governance, AI access controls, agentic identity, and ID-JAG/token exchange.
Scenario-driven projects cover enterprise transformation, breach investigation, AI governance, and agentic identity. You can also bring a project from your workplace or your own project idea and work on it with instructor guidance.
2 hours of dedicated mentorship every week, outside the 50-hour training. Flexible weekday and weekend slots let participants book an individual slot to discuss architecture, projects, career goals, or IAM challenges.
10 additional hours of expert-led sessions cover real-world identity breaches, AI/ML concepts and their application to IAM, and the architecture of an IAM Risk Engine.
Build practical NHI discovery, registry, lifecycle, and credential-control concepts inside Okta-based scenarios.
Every module comes with reading material, references, objective questions, long-answer questions, and scenario-based questions for interview preparation.
The extra 2 mentorship hours each week can be booked on a weekday or weekend for an individual session on architecture, an office project, or a career discussion.
Okta → IAM → Enterprise Architecture → Identity Security → AI + Identity → Real-World Implementation
IAM fundamentals, Okta architecture, Universal Directory, users and groups.
SSO, SAML, OIDC, MFA, FastPass, and adaptive access.
OAuth 2.0, API security, Workflows, JML, SCIM, and custom API integrations.
Identity governance, access reviews, privileged access, threat protection, and Zero Trust.
NHI, Shadow AI, AI governance, AI access controls, and AI agents.
Token exchange, ID-JAG, delegation, fine-grained authorization, and secure agent workflows.
Choose from structured scenario-based projects, or bring a project from your organization or your own portfolio. The objective is to build something practical that you can explain confidently in an interview and learn from through instructor guidance.
Design an enterprise identity transformation using Okta.
Investigate an identity security incident and remediate the lifecycle and access gap.
Design a practical identity governance framework for unmanaged AI tools.
Design an identity-secure, auditable, and governed AI-agent workflow.
Founding cohort price is ₹25,000. Each option below totals ₹25,000. Seats are limited.
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IAM professionals grow faster when they learn from each other, share real-world experiences, and solve problems together.
Through these programmes, Ayudra aims to build a practitioner-driven IAM community connecting professionals across SSO and federation, IGA, PAM, identity security, IAM engineering, and AI + Identity — a place to exchange knowledge, discuss architecture, explore emerging challenges, support one another, and grow together.
This is the beginning. More programmes are planned across different areas of IAM, so the community can keep learning, connecting, sharing, and growing.
Ten modules make up the 50 hours of live Okta training.
Instructor
Principal IAM Architect | 15+ years IT | 10+ years IAM
Shakshi Panda is a Principal IAM Architect and Identity and Access Management leader with 15 years of IT experience, including more than a decade specializing in IAM, identity security, and enterprise identity architecture.
Her professional journey includes Accenture, Mastercard, ABB, PayPal, and Uber, where she has worked on complex enterprise identity environments and secure, scalable IAM solutions. She currently serves as a Principal IAM Architect at a reputed global organization, focusing on modern identity architecture and next-generation security challenges.
Shakshi also works at the intersection of IAM and artificial intelligence, with a focus on AI agents, agent identity, token exchange, secure delegation, authorization, and identity-aware access for AI-driven applications.
Beyond her corporate role, Shakshi is passionate about teaching, mentoring, and developing IAM professionals, helping them connect theoretical concepts with real enterprise implementations.
Her teaching philosophy centers on practical, real-world learning — covering IAM concepts, architecture decisions, implementation patterns, security considerations, and challenges encountered in production.
Through this Okta programme, she brings together experience across enterprise IAM, Okta, cloud identity, security, AI, and emerging agentic identity patterns.
Shakshi Panda leads the core 50-hour Okta programme and brings enterprise IAM, architecture, identity security, AI + Identity, and agentic identity experience.
Weekly mentorship is supported by the instructor and a guest IAM practitioner, providing an additional practitioner perspective during individual guidance slots.
10 additional hours are delivered by a guest instructor through focused sessions on real-world identity breaches, AI/ML theory and its application to IAM, and IAM Risk Engine concepts.
Mentorship is practical and available throughout the programme. Every week, the cohort has a dedicated 2-hour mentorship and project-guidance session. During that window, students can book an individual slot with the instructor.
Discuss IAM architecture, Okta design choices, authentication and authorization flows, and implementation approaches.
Bring a real project or production scenario from your organization and discuss the IAM or Okta challenge with the instructor.
Bring a personal project you want to build or improve and use the session to work through design and implementation questions.
Clarify difficult concepts, discuss certification preparation, and work through interview scenarios.
Discuss practical IAM career direction, skill gaps, and how to build relevant hands-on experience.
Use the session to discuss practical implementation issues and architecture decisions.
Supporting reading material and references are shared after each module.
Practice objective-type questions to reinforce concepts and support certification preparation.
Structured long-answer questions help learners explain concepts clearly in interviews and assessments.
Real-world IAM scenarios that require design, troubleshooting, and decision-making.
Question-and-answer sheets, relevant references, and additional learning resources.
Use the material alongside mentorship sessions to prepare for technical discussions and scenario-based interviews.
10 additional hours of focused expert-led sessions, delivered by a guest instructor outside the core 50-hour training.
The curriculum is mapped progressively toward relevant Okta certification paths. Certification exams and fees are separate from the training programme, and current requirements should be verified with Okta.
Okta → IAM → Enterprise Architecture → Identity Security → AI + Identity → Real-World Implementation
Founding cohort price is ₹25,000, with flexible payment options and limited seats. Use the enquiry form and this programme will be selected for you.
