New Cybersecurity Intern Seeking SailPoint Guidance

IdentityIQ (IIQ) IIQ Discussion and Questions
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Hello SailPoint Community,

I’m a final-year bachelor’s student interning in cybersecurity at Canada’s largest payment processor. I have 2–3 years of experience with Java/Spring Boot, JS/React, AWS, and Docker. I’m now starting with SailPoint and would appreciate advice on:

  • Market demand for SailPoint/IAM skills and key industries hiring.
  • Recommended beginner resources (docs, courses, sandboxes).
  • Which features to focus on first (rules, workflows, connectors) and whether to learn Groovy/BeanShell early.
  • Value of SailPoint certifications and common beginner pitfalls.
  • Next steps: entry-level roles to target and networking groups to join.

Thank you for any tips or resource links!

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this link could explain: Identity University - On-demand and instructor-led

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For starters

Kick start your career with SailPoint IdentityIQ - Content / Blog Drafts - SailPoint Developer Community

Getting Started with SailPoint IIQ Development - Content / Community Blog - SailPoint Developer Community

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First thing would be :
Learn IIQ, do not think that IIQ is a sandbox you customize everything.

EXCESSIVE Customizations is bad practice.

Build something completely new on IIQ just because you don’t know how the tool works is unjustify. I’ve seem companies ho basically re-create functions that IIQ alredy had builtin since version 6m because they were java developers and to justify hours they create this umanager things.
However customization for business need is a complete different thing.

You need to learn what is IIQ and how it works, how the pieces combine together to achieve certain things.
University is the best place, setup your own environment if you can, and tyr to do little things without code.