January 27, 2020
The next round of the InCommon Collaboration Success Program (CSP) kicks off this week at the Colorado School of Mines in Golden, Colorado. In the interest of sharing the experiences with the community we will use the hashtag #incommoncsp and post photos and updates of key moments along the way. CSP is cohort-driven which fosters…
January 9, 2020
Looking to deploy InCommon-ready Shibboleth Service Provider and Identity Provider in a way that’s easy to install and manage? Want first-hand experience with the world of containers and how they can make your life easier? Are you ready to join the ranks of over 680 attendees from 20+ workshops who have given this course a…
January 9, 2020
Six universities will use the InCommon Trusted Access Platform software to help solve shared issues through the 2020 InCommon Collaboration Success Program (CSP). The seven-month long CSP focuses on adopting solutions to key identity and access management challenges faced by the research and education community. The participating institutions are: Through the InCommon Collaboration Success Program,…
August 16, 2019
Looking for a better way to manage access to resources (on-prem or in the cloud)? Working on supporting collaboration within or outside or your organization and need some help? Need an easier way to update access when individuals change status or roles (at scale!)? The InCommon Collaboration Success Program (CSP) can help. Through the CSP,…
August 7, 2019
By Dean Woodbeck, InCommon Director of Community Awareness The InCommon Technical Advisory Committee (TAC) has chartered the IdP as a Service Working Group to explore ways to make it easier for organizations to participate in the InCommon Federation. Specifically, the working group will look at the technical and operational requirements that an IdP cloud-based solution…
July 23, 2019
New InCommon Participants As of July 19, 2019, InCommon had 1,019 participants. Here are the new participants since the last update in June 2019: Higher EducationIvy Tech Community COllegeNortheast Community CollegeRush University Medical CenterWinston-Salem State UniversityResearch OrganizationHoward Hughes Medical Institute Sponsored Partners DiversityEduOvrture InCommon Certificate Service Subscribers As of July 19, 2019, 475 organizations subscribe…
July 23, 2019
By Nick Roy, Director of Technology and Strategy, InCommon InCommon’s brand new metadata service went live on Tuesday, July 9th. The production release candidate of the new metadata query service (MDQ) – also known as per-entity metadata – incorporates new features to save significant amounts of memory and start-up time for InCommon participants’ federating software.…
July 19, 2019
Will we see you in Milwaukee? InCommon BaseCAMP, coming up August 13-15, 2019, focuses on the basics of identity management, operating in the InCommon Federation, and the InCommon Trusted Access Platform IAM software suite. This meeting will have a workshop flavor. Sessions will be interactive and focus on common challenges in identity and access management,…
July 12, 2019
Don’t miss this event – workshop atmosphere with experienced leaders Have a few tough questions relating to access management? Want to find out how your friends at other organizations are solving them? Want a crash course in InCommon Federation or open-source identity and access management software? InCommon BaseCAMP (August 13-15, 2019, in Milwaukee, Wisconsin) will use a workshop…
June 25, 2019
By Dean Woodbeck, Director of Community Awareness The last three years seems like a whirlwind around the virtual InCommon office, with all of the community work to build out an identity and access management suite of software (now the InCommon Trusted Access Platform), and subsequent requests for related training and education. Our community architects have…
