Identity & Access Management Mastery in 2026: The Least-Privilege + Zero Trust IAM Checklist I Actually Use in Production
In every role I’ve held — from hardening PCI-compliant financial microservices at SWBC to migrating user identities from Amazon Cognito to Auth0 at Celink — the single biggest source of risk and audit findings has always been Identity & Access Management. After 15+ years of designing, breaking, and fixing IAM systems across AWS, Azure, Kubernetes,…