Skills availability at the entry level in Identity and Access Management represents a real challenge across the IT industry. The Intragen Academy is a programme that is addressing the issue in a scalable way, educating talented, young people and helping them kickstart their careers.
The majority of successful hacks are now the result of poor identity management discipline. This has now become the focus of most organisations’ cyber security investment. As a result, the market for Identity and Access Management – Identity Governance and Privileged Access Management solutions – is growing fast. So too is the complexity of these products.
These factors have combined to make skills scarce and therefore increasingly difficult for organisations to recruit and retain. As a result, Intragen have taken on more responsibility and we are investing in building skills and consulting capacity at speed.
Europe is facing a 31% cybersecurity skills shortfall
Nearly 400,000 professionals missing from the frontline of digital defence
Almost 60% of respondents agree that skills gaps have significantly impacted their ability to secure the organisation
Recruitment is difficult and time-consuming. Freelancers can be expensive and unreliable. Your internal teams are overstretched and burning out. To help address these problems, as well as the wider skills shortage impacting the cybersecurity industry, Intragen's Academy:
Deploys EU-based consultants in 6-12 weeks after an intensive training course
Ensures consultants have your DNA, tools, culture and ways of working at the heart of everything they do
Is trusted by our vendors One Identity, Okta and CyberArk and their clients
Reliably produces great talent consistently and at no cost to you
Intragen's Academy, based in Athens and fully owned and managed by Intragen, recruits top technical graduates from across Europe.
The programme provides intensive training in Identity and Access Management (IAM) tools, methodologies, and communication skills. This includes skills from across vendor technologies, not limiting the training to one in particular.
Intragen’s Academy maintains full ownership of its talent pipeline, with no CV reselling or body shopping. All consultants are fully aligned with Intragen’s values and methodologies. The programme focuses on developing both technical and soft skills, including communication, client interaction, and documentation.
Based in the EU, the Academy enables fast onboarding and ensures high retention rates. The DNA of Intragen’s clients is embedded within the Academy, ensuring that consultants are equally aligned with clients’ values and methods.
"The Academy was a great experience for me. During the academy I had high motivation to complete my exercises and improve my skills. I have joined a project and recognised that what I learned from the Academy helped me understand more advanced solutions and improve my skills further."
IAM Engineer, Intragen
"I have been really impressed with the quality of the team in Athens. I have now worked on projects with a number of the Academy Graduates and the levels of professionalism and skill they have shown has been superb. I have every confidence in introducing them to clients."
Client Solutions Director, Intragen
"The Academy is very well structured. Its curated material along with mentor's supervision helped immerse me into a linear path for training in the specific technology of IAM. It also prepared me for real world scenarios! It was an exceptional journey towards acquiring new skills and knowledge that made me confident in starting my career in a solid and strong foundation."
IAM Engineer, Intragen
An Intragen client faced a challenge in finding qualified IAM engineers, struggling to recruit six suitable candidates locally for over eight months.
To address this, Intragen deployed four consultants from its Academy within just six weeks. As a result, the client’s IAM rollout accelerated significantly, the internal team’s workload was reduced, and the project successfully met its audit timeline.
