Welcome to our course on Identity Essentials!

Imagine you are being asked to consume data from a secured API. Before you can get to the data, you have to go through authentication and authorization. Consuming the data is typically the easier part! But all the verifications and handshakes... the whole ceremony behind identity... what a racket! And it gets confusing - credentials? tokens? What gets sent where? And I need to do what with these?!

In this course, we will break down the essentials of identity to make this process a lot less confusing.

This course is designed to get you comfortable with understanding what's going on in the evolution of identity management. Identity is a heavy topic in itself, so the implementation of identity is saved for another course. This course will not get into implementation details.

However, before we dive into the world of identity, let's take a moment to understand who this course is tailored for and what prerequisites you should have.