So happy to report that I successfully passed the exam and now a certified SailPoint IdentityNow Engineer!!!
Exam was very interesting. Proctored by Examity and involved with DOMC style questions and rating. Keeps you on your toes and you can’t just luck your way out of it.
For more information on the IDN Engineer Exam, head over to the SailPoint University Website.
Continuing the previous post.. Happy to say Navigate Sydney 2019 was a successful event!!! 😅
The training went pretty well I reckon. Larger crowd than I expected in my class. I would say about 100-150 people in attendance.Â
Few pictures of the event uploaded with a snippet of my training (unprofessional video but thankful to an ex colleague to take it).
If you want the full video or more information lemme know.
Hey Guys
Will be presenting on the topic “Practical IdentityNow REST API Examples” on the 2nd Day (Training) August 15th 2019.
It is the flagship event of SailPoint and has industry leaders attending it with focus on how SailPoint can help in identity governance and what the future holds. The only other such event from SailPoint is in Austin which happened earlier this year.
Looking forward to it and hopefully won’t get a stage fright 😰
Give me a shout if you can make it to the event. It is FREE to register & attend!!! Did I also mention free food 🙂Â
Here is a snippet of what you can look forward to
Practical IdentityNow REST API Examples
Piyush Khandelwal
Get a fast-paced introduction to the REST API and the out-of-the-box Seaspray transforms available from IdentityNow. We’ll combine these two topics to show you how to design, build and deploy a transform, giving you the ability to extend the functionality of IdentityNow with these key features.
More Info & Register: https://navigate.sailpoint.com/sydney/
See you there!!!
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So I’ve been learning SailPoint IdentityNow (IDN) and I am rattling my brains trying to match what I know about MIM and make sense in my brain and relate to the terms and how they are the same/similar but have different names in each product.
I have done up a little comparison table showing the most common things I have understood till date and tried to put it in words the way they are termed differently in MIM and IDN.
I am not an expert in either and not saying they are essentially correct or which product is better than other (btw there is no right answer to that – each have clear pros and cons depending on what you want in a product) but just trying to bridge the gap on understanding what they are in each.
| MIM | SailPoint IDN | |
|---|---|---|
| Data Type | Has various like integer, string etc. | Everything is defined as string essentially. |
| Connection | Direct via MA which has config parameters. | Done via a VA (Virtual Appliance) which is a lightweight custom Linux VM deployed at customer side (think of it as a secure tunnel from cloud IDN to your network). |
| Management Agents (MA) | Individual connectors connected to sources. | Called a Source - Downstream or upstream. |
| Connector Space (CS) | Staging area for data in a connector. | Shows up in the Accounts tab in the Source. |
| Disconnectors | Objects which had not connected to MV. | Called "Uncorrelated Accounts" under the import data tab of the source. |
| Metaverse (MV) | Where all the identities are connected to each MA and the fullest form of it in essence. | Identity List which has links to all the sources. |
| Projection & Provisioning | Each MA has the rules and mappings to project a CS into MV and to the external source as well. | Each Identity Profile has a mapping against a source and also provisioning rules. Sources which have an Identity Profile are also called Authoritative Source and ones which't don't are called Non-Authoritative. |
| Join Rules | Rules which join CS objects to MV based on defined criteria. | Called "Correlation" in the Source where we define those criteria. |
| Groups | AD or MIM Groups | Called Entitlements. It doesn't show groups as MIM does i.e. Group Management is not a thing. You do User Management with entitlements i.e. group membership. |
| Import | Importing objects from a connector to CS. | Called "Account Aggregation" or "Entitlement Aggregation" which brings in the data. |
| AD Password Sync from DC | Done via PCNS | Done via PWI (Password Interceptor) |
| AD Write | Direct via ADMA | Needs a domain joined computer with IQService installed. |
| Automation of logic | Sets / MPR and Workflows in MIM Portal. | Does it via Access Profiles , Roles and Identity Profiles in IDN Portal. |
| Advance Rules | Done via Workflows and other advanced methods like MIMWAL etc. | Called Rules written in JAVA/BeanShell wrapped with XML. |
| Under the hood config | Lot of config is exported and modified in XML. | Extensive API access mainly giving JSON outputs with few XML as well. |
Feel free to correct me where I am wrong and / or if you want me to add something else or explain something more in details, do reach out.
Hopefully it made sense to someone!!!
Been working on FIM/MIM for over 6 years now I think and finally time has come to change to something new. FIM/MIM is good for basic syncs etc but when it comes to reporting and PAM solutions among other things, it lacks teeth. But it is good to know all competitors from marketing and implementation point of view. You know the pros and cons of each!!!
Extremely happy to join the SailPoint Crew and represent them Down Under. They are the market leaders in Identity Governance & Administration. The Gartner report speaks of itself and the difference between the competitors.
Going from one extreme end of the graph to the other. It’s certainly going to be challenging and fun. Looking forward to it!!!
So hopefully I should blog more about SailPoint in the coming weeks from now on.
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