Take the ticket queue at a 150-person company. Onboard, offboard, reset, deny, escalate. Then audit your own work. What you miss on Monday comes back on Thursday.
Most IAM training walks you through one setting at a time. Real IAM work is a queue: messy requests, approvals, people in a hurry, and decisions that have consequences.
Joiners, movers, leavers, lockouts, access requests, SoD conflicts, a fake CFO on the phone, and an MFA-fatigue attack, all at one company with 131 accounts.
Leave a stale account enabled and an attacker uses it. Disable the wrong service account and backups fail. Your next shift is built from your last one.
Switch to the GRC desk and test the controls you just operated, including the audit log of your own shift. No other platform makes you do both sides.
Pick up requests from HR feeds, phone calls, alerts and access reviews.
Enable, disable, reset, change groups and job info, set expiry, revoke sessions, escalate.
Scored on the result and the process, with the NIST control behind each decision.
Thursday's queue is built from your Monday. Then audit the whole week as the GRC tester.
Service desk IAM analyst. Two shifts, 20+ tickets, consequences between them.
IT auditor. Test controls, rate deficiencies, review a SOC 2 report, write the finding.
Privileged access admin. Just-in-time admin requests, the vault, emergency accounts, session review.
Run the same scenarios in your own Entra ID, Active Directory, Okta and AWS labs, with scripts that load the company and grade your work.
"I spent 16 years auditing access. I built the simulator I wish new analysts had."
Christopher Ashley has 16 years in audit and compliance, testing the controls that decide who gets access to what. Every ticket in ShiftReady is modeled on the failures auditors find in real companies: late terminations, copied access, approvals that shouldn't count.
Career changers and help desk techs moving into IAM, current analysts who want reps, and hiring managers who want to see how someone handles a real queue.
No. The simulator runs in your browser. Platform packs for your own Entra, Okta and AWS labs are coming for people who want to practice in the real consoles.
The Monday shift is free. Pricing for the full tracks goes to the waitlist first, with a founding-member price for early signups.
No. Pacific Crest Logistics and everyone in it are fictional.
Join the waitlist for the PAM track, platform packs and founding-member pricing. One email when it's ready. No spam.