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SailPoint Identity Governance & Administration (IGA) Training

SailPoint IGA training teaches identity governance and administration as a discipline and on SailPoint's platforms.

What you get

  • Explain identity governance and administration end to end
  • Design the joiner, mover and leaver lifecycle
  • Model roles and RBAC and control role explosion
  • Write separation-of-duties and risk policies

Who this course is for

Great fit if you are new

Freshers and career switchers entering IAM/IGA
Support, service-desk and AD admins moving into governance
Auditors and GRC analysts who need working IGA knowledge

Great fit if you are working

New IGA analysts and identity administrators
Security and compliance team members
Anyone before the Engineer-level SailPoint courses

Prerequisites

  • No IAM or coding background required.
  • This is the entry point into SailPoint and identity governance.

What you will be able to do

  • Explain identity governance and administration end to end
  • Design the joiner, mover and leaver lifecycle
  • Model roles and RBAC and control role explosion
  • Write separation-of-duties and risk policies
  • Configure access requests, approvals and provisioning
  • Run access certifications and produce audit evidence
  • Administer SailPoint and choose your certification path

Salary range

India
5-14 LPA
United States
80k-120k

Market ranges for IGA Analyst / Administrator, not a guarantee. Actual pay depends on experience, location and employer.

Curriculum

Identity governance and administration fundamentals

9 topics

Set the vocabulary and the business case for IGA before you touch a product, so every later module has context.

  • What IGA is and the business problems it solves
  • Governance versus administration versus broader IAM
  • The cost of poor access governance: breaches, audit findings, failed controls
  • Regulatory drivers: SOX, GDPR, HIPAA, ISO 27001
  • Core objects: identities, accounts, entitlements, roles
  • The identity cube and the single source of truth
  • Where SailPoint fits: IdentityIQ versus Identity Security Cloud
  • Build versus buy and the IGA vendor landscape
  • The IGA maturity model and program goals

The identity lifecycle (joiner, mover, leaver)

9 topics

Follow a worker from hire to exit and see exactly what identity governance must automate at each step.

  • Authoritative sources and HR-driven identity creation
  • Joiner: onboarding and birthright access
  • Mover: transfers, promotions and access recalculation
  • Leaver: deprovisioning and clean offboarding
  • Rehire and leave-of-absence edge cases
  • Lifecycle states, events and triggers
  • Correlating accounts to identities
  • Time-bound, emergency and break-glass access
  • Contractors, service and shared accounts

Access model: entitlements, roles and RBAC

9 topics

Turn thousands of raw entitlements into a role model people can actually request and govern.

  • How entitlements are aggregated and owned
  • Entitlement descriptions and business-friendly naming
  • Role-based access control (RBAC) explained
  • Business roles versus IT / technical roles
  • Role mining and top-down versus bottom-up role design
  • Birthright versus requestable access
  • ABAC and policy-based access alongside RBAC
  • Role ownership and governance
  • Avoiding role explosion

Policies: separation of duties and risk

9 topics

Encode the controls auditors care about and decide what to block, detect and mitigate.

  • Separation-of-duties (SoD) concepts
  • Preventive versus detective controls
  • Toxic-combination examples across finance and IT
  • Building SoD policies and rulesets
  • Risk scoring of identities and access
  • Simulation and what-if before enforcing a policy
  • Detecting and handling policy violations
  • Mitigating controls and sign-off
  • Continuous policy monitoring

Access requests and approvals

9 topics

Design the self-service experience that replaces email and ticket-driven access.

  • The access request catalog
  • The shopping-cart request experience
  • Cart validation and policy checks at request time
  • Approval workflows and multi-level approvals
  • Automated versus manual fulfilment
  • Bulk and on-behalf-of requests
  • Delegation and escalation
  • Request policies and pre-approval
  • Notifications, reminders and SLAs

Access certifications and reviews

9 topics

Run the periodic reviews that prove access is still appropriate, without reviewer fatigue.

  • Why periodic access reviews matter
  • Manager, application-owner and role certifications
  • Targeted and event-based micro-certifications
  • The reviewer experience and bulk decisions
  • Reducing rubber-stamping with recommendations
  • Revocation and remediation flow
  • Closed-loop verification of revocations
  • Certification scheduling and reminders
  • Producing evidence for auditors

Provisioning and fulfilment

9 topics

Connect governance decisions to real accounts across connected and manual systems.

  • The provisioning model and provisioning plans
  • Connected versus disconnected applications
  • Provisioning policies and forms
  • Approval-gated provisioning
  • Manual work items and fulfilment
  • Retry, error and partial-failure handling
  • Fulfilment SLAs and escalation
  • Password management and self-service reset
  • Troubleshooting provisioning failures

Audit, compliance and reporting

9 topics

Produce the evidence and metrics that keep auditors and leadership satisfied.

  • The audit trail and what is captured
  • Standard governance reports
  • Separation-of-duties attestation reporting
  • Custom reports and dashboards
  • Compliance evidence and attestation
  • Continuous compliance monitoring
  • Dashboards for identity risk posture
  • Metrics and KPIs for an IGA program
  • Preparing for an external audit

Administering SailPoint and capstone

8 topics

Operate the platform day to day, then pull the whole course together in a live end-to-end build.

  • Administering IdentityIQ versus Identity Security Cloud
  • Day-two operations and housekeeping
  • Backup, upgrade and patch awareness
  • Delegated administration and least privilege
  • An end-to-end JML build on a live environment
  • Running a certification campaign end to end
  • Identity Security Leader credential domains
  • Choosing your next path: Associate, Engineer or Administrator

Projects you will build

Joiner, mover, leaver blueprint

Design and build the full JML lifecycle with birthright access, transfer recalculation and clean offboarding on a live environment.

Access certification campaign

Configure and run a manager certification, make decisions and drive revocations through to remediation.

SoD policy and risk model

Build a separation-of-duties policy with mitigating controls and a simple identity risk model, then handle violations.

Certification

Code
Identity Security Leader + IGA foundations
Exam fee
Free (Leader credential)

What learners say

I came in with zero IAM background and left able to talk lifecycle, roles, SoD and certifications with confidence. The perfect on-ramp.

Anil P., IGA Analyst

The JML and certification projects are exactly what my first SailPoint interview covered. I got the role.

Kavya S., Identity Administrator

Finally understood governance versus administration and how it maps to IIQ and ISC. The best foundations course I have taken.

John D., Security Analyst

Fees and training modes

Choose how you want to learn. No-cost EMI is available on the live and 1-to-1 modes.

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Interactive live batches, weekday or weekend, with the full cohort and lifetime recordings.

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1-to-1 Training

₹49,000

Fixed for every course, no-cost EMI

Private one-on-one coaching at a pace and schedule you set.

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Self-paced Training

₹9,000

One-time fee, lowest-cost option

Learn on your own time with recorded sessions and the same materials.

Refunds and cancellations are covered in our refund policy.

Training a team?

We run this course as private corporate training, tailored to your systems and scheduled around your team. Tell us your group size and what you need to cover.

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Frequently asked questions

Is this IdentityIQ or Identity Security Cloud?

Both. IGA is taught as a discipline and then shown in both IdentityIQ (on-premise) and Identity Security Cloud (SaaS), so you can work on either platform.

Do I need any IAM or coding experience?

No. This is the entry point into SailPoint and identity governance, and no coding is required.

Which certification does this map to?

SailPoint's free Identity Security Leader credential, and it prepares you for the role-based Certified IdentityIQ Associate and Certified Identity Security Administrator paths.

Should I take this before the Engineer courses?

Yes. IGA gives you the foundations that the IdentityIQ Developer and Identity Security Cloud Engineer courses build on.

Will I practise on a real environment?

Yes. Every session is hands-on, ending with an end-to-end joiner, mover, leaver and certification build.

Is it live?

Yes, live and instructor-led with same-day recordings and lifetime access.

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