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IAM resources — what they reach for, when they need it.

Citable benchmarks. Migration playbooks. Audit checklists. Standards explainers. RFP templates. Reference architectures. Vendor pricing. Free debuggers. The identity engineer’s reference shelf, free to use + cite.

IAM resource library — research, playbooks, and reference documents
Benchmarks + reports

Live, citable benchmarks

Evergreen URLs, monthly review, CC BY 4.0 — the canonical reference for IAM-specific stats.

  • State of Identity

    Live benchmarks across workforce, privileged, customer, audit, and AI-agent identity.

  • IAM Salary Benchmark

    Role × seniority × region compensation bands.

  • IAM Vendor Pricing Index

    What each IAM vendor actually costs at enterprise + mid-market.

  • IAM Market Landscape

    Embeddable SVG mapping the vendor ecosystem.

  • Best IAM Solutions 2026

    The IAM vendor map by category — IdP, IGA, PAM, CIAM, machine identity.

  • Best PAM Solutions 2026

    Ranked privileged access management vendors with trade-offs.

  • Best IGA Solutions 2026

    Ranked identity governance vendors — SailPoint, Saviynt, Entra, Oracle, IBM.

  • Best CIAM Solutions 2026

    Ranked customer identity vendors — Auth0, Okta CIC, Entra External ID, Ping.

  • Best SSO Solutions 2026

    Ranked single sign-on / IdP vendors — Okta, Entra, Ping, JumpCloud, OneLogin.

  • Best MFA Solutions 2026

    Ranked MFA vendors — Duo, Okta, Entra, RSA, PingID, FIDO2 keys.

  • IAM Consulting Firms: How to Choose

    The four types of IAM partner and how to pick the right one.

  • IAM SLA Benchmarks

    Operating metrics for identity programs.

  • Vertical State of Identity — Healthcare

    HIPAA enforcement, breach economics, clinical MFA.

  • Vertical State of Identity — Financial Services

    FFIEC compliance, ATO economics, layered MFA.

  • Vertical State of Identity — Government

    FedRAMP, OMB M-22-09, Zero Trust adoption.

Trackers

Continuously-updated trackers

Each entry sourced to a primary disclosure. RSS feeds for journalists + incident responders.

  • Identity Incident Tracker

    Publicly-disclosed credential / OAuth / MFA-bypass breaches with primary sources + RSS feed.

  • IAM Vulnerability Tracker

    CVEs for IAM products + identity-adjacent infrastructure with practitioner notes + RSS feed.

Reference

Standards + architectures + crosswalks

Plain-English explainers + practitioner-tested architectures + framework mappings.

  • AI Agent Identity (guide)

    Securing AI agents — MCP security, OAuth 2.1, zero standing privileges, ReBAC, NHI governance.

  • Standards explainers

    OAuth 2.1, OpenID Connect, SAML 2.0, SCIM 2.0, FIDO2 / passkeys — single-page explainers.

  • Reference architectures

    Zero Trust IAM, B2B SaaS identity stack, regulated-enterprise IAM.

  • IAM Compliance Crosswalk

    IAM controls mapped across NIST 800-53, ISO 27001, SOC 2, HIPAA, FFIEC, FedRAMP.

  • Awesome IAM directory

    Curated index of vendors, open-source, standards, training, conferences.

  • IAM Glossary

    A-Z dictionary of identity & access management terminology.

Playbooks

Migration + audit + career playbooks

The work, broken down by what to do, in what order, with the gotchas surfaced.

  • Migration playbooks

    Okta → Entra, SailPoint → Saviynt, ForgeRock → cloud, Auth0 → Microsoft External ID.

  • Compliance audit checklists

    FedRAMP, HIPAA, SOC 2, FFIEC — every evidence artifact your auditor will ask for.

  • RFP templates

    Workforce IdP, PAM, IGA, CIAM — the questions to actually ask.

  • IAM Anti-Patterns catalog

    35 mistakes + fixes, with stable deep-link anchors.

  • IAM Career Guides

    IAM Engineer, Identity Architect, PAM Engineer, CIAM Engineer, Program Manager, Compliance Lead.

Interactive tools

Assessments + calculators

Use them in your tab. Nothing sent to a server.

  • IAM Maturity Assessment

    8-question diagnostic across IGA / Access / PAM / Zero-Trust / Audit.

  • IAM ROI Calculator

    Slider-driven model for IAM total cost of ownership + savings.

  • Free IAM Tools

    JWT, SAML, OAuth, SCIM, OIDC debuggers + password entropy. Client-side only.

  • IAM Vendor Comparisons

    Side-by-side capability matrices for major IAM vendor pairs.

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