User Authentication and Identity Fundamentals

User Authentication & Identity Fundamentals enables you to analyze existing enterprise identity infrastructures, and ask the questions needed to understand how it pertains to the digital transformation journey and the migration to the Zero Trust Exchange. By the end of this module, you will be able to:

• Explain the benefits of the Zscaler recommended and optimal authentication schemes.
• Identify the limits and considerations when deploying with existing alternative authentication mechanisms. 

Topics

• Identity's Core Role In The Zero Trust Exchange
• User Identity
• Device Identity
• Identity Directory
• Identity Provider (IdP) Services & Architecture
• Authentication Service Providers
• Fundamentals Of Authentication & Authorization
• Authentication Methods Overview
• HTTP Web Server Authentication
• Basic Authentication
• HTTP Forms Authentication
• Certificate Authentication
• MFA (Multi-factor Authentication)
• SAML (Security Assertion Markup Language) Authentication
• OIDC (OpenID Connect) Authentication
• LDAP (Lightweight Directory Access Protocol) Authentication
• Kerberos Authentication
• NTLM (NT LAN Manager) Authentication
• Authorization Methods
• Authentication, Identity, And Authorization In The Zscaler Context
• Authentication with Zscaler Client Connector
• Transparent Authentication
• User Provisioning
• SCIM (System for Cross-domain Identity Management)
• Approaches To Zscaler Authentication
• Common Zscaler Authentication Methods
• ZSLogin
• ZAB (Zscaler Authentication Bridge)
• Location Based Authentication Controls