IdentityLogic Academy

AI-Powered IAM Practice

An 8-week faculty-led cohort for working IAM professionals who want to use AI to multiply their effectiveness. Cohort 1 starts September 1, 2026. Applications now open.

Apply for Cohort 1 →Read the syllabus ↓

Applications close August 15, 2026

Cohort confirmation August 22, 2026

Cohort 1 starts September 1, 2026

02 · Audience

Who this cohort is for

This cohort is built for working IAM professionals who want to bring AI into their daily practice. The audience is sharp on purpose.

You are a good fit if you have 2 to 10 years of hands-on IAM experience and you understand the basics across identity governance, access management, or privileged access. You are already seeing AI show up in your environment, whether in vendor products, in internal agents, or in your own tooling, and you want to use it well.

You are NOT a good fit if you are new to IAM, if you are looking for a survey course, or if you want to become an AI engineer. This cohort assumes you already know the domain and want to extend your practice, not learn the basics.

03 · Syllabus

What you will learn

Eight weeks. One live 90-minute session per week. Roughly 2 to 3 hours of asynchronous work between sessions. The curriculum is built from Pankaj Bhatta’s enterprise IAM practice, with public research and vendor documentation woven in where it sharpens the analysis.

  1. Week 1

    The shape of AI-leveraged IAM practice

    What changes when an IAM practitioner can use AI as a working partner. What stays the same. The honest case for AI in IAM, including the parts vendors will not tell you.

    Outcome: A clear mental model of where AI helps and where it does not.

  2. Week 2

    AI-assisted policy authoring and review

    Practical work on writing access policies, certification campaigns, role definitions, and entitlement reviews with AI assistance. Where AI saves real time. Where it produces confidently-wrong output that ships if you do not check it.

    Outcome: A working prompt library for IAM-specific policy work, tested against real artifacts you bring to class.

  3. Week 3

    Connector development and integration

    Code-generation patterns for IAM connector work across SailPoint, Okta, and CyberArk. Testing approaches when AI writes part of the code. Where the time savings actually live, including in places teams underestimate.

    Outcome: A tested approach for using AI assistance in connector work without breaking your environment.

  4. Week 4

    Triage, anomaly detection, and event analysis

    Using AI to summarize, classify, and prioritize identity events. Working sessions on signal-to-noise problems most teams have. Avoiding the alert-fatigue automation that creates new problems while solving old ones.

    Outcome: A defensible framework for AI-assisted event triage in your environment.

  5. Week 5

    AI agent identity governance

    The non-human identity problem in the AI era. What changes when the things needing access can reason and act with agency. Governance patterns for agent identities, drawing on CISA guidance, vendor disclosures, and field practice.

    Outcome: An assessment framework you can apply to your environment’s AI agent footprint.

  6. Week 6

    Operationalizing AI tools across your IAM team

    Beyond individual practice. How to bring AI tooling to a team without creating shadow workflows, security debt, or inconsistent practice across people. Change management for a domain where the tooling moves faster than the team.

    Outcome: A rollout plan for your team that you can defend to leadership.

  7. Week 7

    The risks: what to watch and what to avoid

    Honest coverage of the failure modes. Prompt injection. Data leakage. Confident-wrong AI output that bypasses review. Over-automation. Compliance and audit implications.

    Outcome: A personal risk checklist you apply before deploying AI assistance in any IAM-sensitive workflow.

  8. Week 8

    Building your AI-leveraged practice

    Synthesis week. Each participant brings one real problem from their environment and workshops AI-assisted approaches to it. Faculty critique. Peer review. Take-home framework.

    Outcome: A working plan for the next 90 days of your AI-leveraged practice, sized to your actual environment.

04 · Format

Format

Duration
8 weeks (September 1, 2026 to October 27, 2026)
Cadence
One live session per week, 90 minutes
Live session time
To be confirmed with confirmed cohort, targeting late morning Eastern (US) for broadest cohort coverage
Async work
Roughly 2 to 3 hours between sessions
Cohort size
15 to 20 participants
Format
Live video sessions on Zoom. Recordings available for participants who miss a session.
Office hours
One 30-minute open Q&A per week with Pankaj, optional attendance
Completion
A practitioner certificate of completion (not industry-accredited) and access to a private alumni community

05 · Faculty

Faculty

Pankaj Bhatta

COO and Co-Founder, IdentityLogic Consulting

fourteen years in enterprise IAM

Pankaj Bhatta, COO and Co-Founder of IdentityLogic Consulting, leads this cohort. He brings more than fourteen years of hands-on enterprise IAM, in architect, director, and Head of IAM roles at Fortune 500 insurance carriers, global technology services primes, investor-owned utilities, and identity product companies. A SailPoint specialist with depth across Ping Identity and CyberArk, he holds CISSP and CCSP certifications and an MS from the University of Texas at Arlington.

06 · Investment

Investment

Cohort 1 pricing is offered on a “contact us” basis to keep the early cohort flexible for the practitioners and teams who fit best. Tuition is typically employer-paid by the participant’s company as part of professional development. Reach out and we will give you a clear quote within one business day.

Scholarship slots are available for a small number of seats per cohort. If you are an IAM practitioner whose employer cannot fund this program and you would otherwise benefit, mention it in your application and we will respond directly.

07 · Apply

Apply for Cohort 1

Applications close August 15, 2026. Cohort confirmation by August 22, 2026. Cohort 1 starts September 1, 2026.

On submit you will see a brief confirmation. We will be in touch within two business days with next steps.

Primary IAM platforms you work with *

Select all that apply.

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Are you applying for a scholarship slot? *

Replies come from Pankaj or Subrina personally during the initial cohort. We confirm receipt within two business days.

08 · FAQ

Questions you probably have

Is this accredited or a certification?
No. The completion artifact is a practitioner certificate signed by IdentityLogic Consulting, not an industry-recognized credential like CISSP or CCSP. The value is the practice, not the paper. If you need an accredited credential, this is the wrong program.
I work full-time. Can I keep up?
This cohort is designed for working professionals. One live session per week plus 2 to 3 hours of async work fits inside a normal work week if you treat it as professional development time. Most participants find the async work compresses into one focused evening or weekend block.
Will sessions be recorded?
Yes. If you miss a live session, the recording is available within 24 hours. The async work and synthesis week project are required regardless of live attendance.
What if my employer will not pay?
We have scholarship slots for working IAM professionals whose employers cannot fund the program. The application includes a brief scholarship request field.
Can my team enroll together?
Yes. We accept team enrollments. Reach out before applying individually so we can structure the cohort and any group rate.
When is Cohort 2?
Cohort 2 is planned for early 2027. The exact date depends on Cohort 1 feedback.
Who is teaching?
Pankaj Bhatta. See the Faculty section above.
Can you describe a typical participant?
Working IAM practitioner with 2 to 10 years of experience, working at an organization where AI tooling is showing up in IAM workflows or where the participant believes it should be. Roles include Senior IAM Engineer, IAM Architect, IAM Analyst, Security Engineer with IAM focus, and Identity Product Manager.

09 · Ready to apply?

Ready to apply?

Cohort 1 starts September 1, 2026. Applications close August 15, 2026. We confirm cohort participation by August 22, 2026.

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