Salad and vegetables are just the ritual we go through to allow ourselves dessert. Face it, you didn’t _really_ want that Caesar salad; what you wanted was the creme brulee with the honey mascarpone topping. It’s the same thing with identity management. Identity management is just the salad you have to eat before sitting down for a nice warm bowl of authorization. In this course we will cover the basic concepts of authorization, the continuum of “graininess” of access, various authorization architectures, and the advantages of controlling authorization with some sort of policy mechanism. We’ll also dig into the modern authorization protocols XACML and OAuth2 and how you can use them in your environment.