News - InCommon

03
Dec.
2021

Catalyst

Catalysts Offer Unique Expertise, Meaningful Contributions to the InCommon Community

By Amber Rasche, Senior Communications Specialist

Just six months have passed since the InCommon Catalyst community partner program launched in June 2021. And evidence of the Catalysts’ deep, ongoing commitment to the InCommon community is already stacking up. Catalysts are industry leaders and Internet2 members that actively contribute to identity and access management (IAM) within…

03
Dec.
2021

eduroam

Are You Ready for the New eduroam?

By Sara Jeanes, eduroam Product Manager

eduroam is expanding and changing to serve K-12. Internet2 is moving all subscribers to a cloud-forward architecture and new configuration management portal. We are providing weekly updates on the transition. You may find more information on our Weekly Progress wiki. Briefly, here is what you need…

17
Nov.
2021

IAM Webinars

Grab Your Popcorn! Select CAMP Week Videos Now Available Through IAM Online

By Netta Caligari, InCommon Community Success Manager

Ready for an IAM movie night? InCommon + GÉANT’s 2021 CAMP Week is all wrapped up, but the party’s still going! To allow the broader community access to some of the incredibly insightful content from our virtual conference, we happily announce the release of three stellar presentations, ready to view…

17
Nov.
2021

Software Grouper

News From the Grouper Project

By Chris Hyzer, University of Pennsylvania and Chair of the Grouper Project

We’re excited to share recent developments in the Grouper project. Grouper is an enterprise group and access management system that simplifies access management by letting you use the same group or role in many places in your organization. Grouper is part of the InCommon Trusted Access Platform, an identity…

12
Nov.
2021

Community

Our Leadership Community is Expanding! Advisory Committees Nominations Under Review for 2022

By Netta Caligari, InCommon Community Success Manager

Engagement is the foundation of how we operate at InCommon. We appreciate the variety of ways our community comes together to develop best practices; guide the adoption of new technologies, and identify challenges to help resolve common issues in research and education. One of the main avenues for driving this…

16
Nov.
2021

Federation

The Time to Meet InCommon Baseline Expectations 2 Requirements is Fast Approaching

By David St. Pierre Bantz, University of Alaska / InCommon Community Trust & Assurance Board, and Albert Wu, InCommon Federation Service Manager

InCommon Participants established the InCommon Baseline Expectations for Trust in Federation in 2018 as a means to increase trust and interoperability among InCommon federation participants and to define what they expect of each other, and of InCommon Operations. The second iteration of Baseline Expectations (Baseline Expectations 2, or BE2) was…

16
Nov.
2021

Federation

InCommon Members Support NIH Security Measures

By Tom Barton, Internet2 Research Engagement

In the Fall of 2020, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) announced that they were making changes to increase the security of many of their services to better protect the sensitive data shared with researchers. Among those are requirements for federated logins: Release Necessary User Information – Release the user…

11
Nov.
2021

COmanage Academy

4 Tips on How to Up Your IAM Game Using COmanage and the InCommon Trusted Access Platform

By Laura Paglione, Partner at Spherical Cow Group

Laura Paglione is a partner at Spherical Cow Group (SCG), the open-source lead of the COmanage project, and an InCommon Catalyst. Laura leads COmanage workshops through the InCommon Academy’s software training and is also a member of the InCommon Federation Steering Committee.

08
Nov.
2021

Academy

Announcing the 2021-22 InCommon Collaboration Success Program Cohort

By Erin Murtha, Director of the InCommon Academy

We’re excited to announce the fourth cohort of the InCommon Collaboration Success Program (CSP) that kicked off in fall 2021! CSP supports institutions’ identity and access management (IAM) goals through a cohort-driven program that promotes collaboration among participants, program alumni, seasoned community implementers, and subject matter experts.

08
Nov.
2021

Academy

midPoint Basics Training: Join Us Dec 7-10

By Erin Murtha, Director of the InCommon Academy

midPoint, the newest addition to the InCommon Trusted Access Platform, is a general-purpose identity management and governance system that can synchronize and reconcile among multiple systems of record and sources of identity. It can also provision and de-provision user accounts and groups into services. Register for midPoint BasicsCalling…