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National Institutes of Health and InCommon Community Leaders to Discuss MFA and Identity Requirements

March 17, 2021 The April IAM Online webinar will feature a discussion of three issues related to federating with the National Institutes of Health: Want to learn more? Do you have questions about these coming requirements? Are you curious about what else may be coming from the NIH? Experts from the NIH and InCommon will…

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The National Institutes of Health: Identity Assurance Requirement

June 22, 2021 This is the third in a series of emails regarding new login requirements from the National Institutes of Health (NIH). Effective September 15, 2021, the NIH electronic Research Administration (eRA), will require you: The first two emails focused on the Research and Scholarship and MFA requirements. This email discusses identity assurance, which…

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The National Institutes of Health: Multi-factor Authentication Requirement

June 8, 2021 This is the second in a series of emails regarding new login requirements from the National Institutes of Health (NIH). Effective September 15 eRA will require you: This email focuses on the multi-factor authentication requirement. The first email in this series covered the Research and Scholarship requirement and is available in this…

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The National Institutes of Health: New Research and Scholarship Requirements

May 25, 2021 This is the first in a series of posts regarding new login requirements from the National Institutes of Health (NIH). Effective September 15 eRA will require you: This email focuses on the need to provide NIH with necessary basic user information by using the Research & Scholarship Category. In future weeks, we…

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Updates on NIH Identity Requirements and Plans

April 15, 2021 If you missed the April 14 IAM Online, featuring a discussion of new identity requirements for accessing some National Institutes of Health applications, you can view the recording and download the slides. In addition, the “Get NIH-Ready” wiki page has more-detailed descriptions of the NIH requirements and a list of resources to…

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Registration Open for 2021 BaseCAMP

April 15, 2021 Are you new to identity and access management, the InCommon Federation or to the InCommon Trusted Access Platform? You are in luck! BaseCAMP 2021 is designed to answer your questions and allow you to connect with your peers.  Registration is open for the third annual InCommon BaseCAMP, which will take place online…

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Flexible and Powerful to Address Community Needs: New Grouper Provisioning Framework

January 19, 2021 By Chris Hyzer, University of Pennsylvania Grouper, the access management component of the InCommon Trusted Access Platform, continues to evolve to meet the community’s needs. Our most recent focus has been a reimagining of the way Grouper handles provisioning. The new Grouper provisioning framework revolutionizes how data flows between Grouper and external…

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InCommon Fun Facts – January 2021

January 19, 2021 Show your participation InCommon has a nice badge logo for use by current participants. Take a look and download your very own. New InCommon Participants As of January 19, 2020, InCommon had 1,023 participants. Here are the new participants since the August newsletter: Higher EducationClark CollegeLouisiana State University Health Sciences Center –…

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InCommon Academy Announces 2021 Training and Workshop Schedule

January 8, 2021 The InCommon Academy will offer training sessions for each of the four InCommon Trusted Access Components during the first half of 2021. The third annual BaseCAMP has also been scheduled; BaseCAMP is a workshop geared toward those new to identity and access management or new to the InCommon Federation. Everything will be…

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Meeting the NSF CC* InCommon-Related Requirements

January 5, 2021 This page provides guidance to CIOs and PIs on how to address InCommon-related requirements that NSF CC* solicitations must include in their Campus Cyberinfrastructure Plans. The language in the solicitation is: These requirements help ensure that campus researchers can successfully use their campus credentials to access research-related services without needing to create…