January 18, 2023
When members of the InCommon community achieve their goals, we achieve ours. We love hearing how our training and other resources help research and education institutions overcome obstacles and turn them into opportunities. Recently, we heard from a past attendee of InCommon Academy’s Shibboleth training. He wrote to tell us about how helpful he found…
January 6, 2023
According to a recent Statista Global Consumer Survey, the most common New Year’s resolutions for 2023 among adults (18 – 89 years old) are to exercise more (52%), eat healthier (50%), and lose weight (40%). In other words – living healthier by getting in better shape. And we all know that getting in better shape…
December 19, 2022
As I sit down to write this, even after being home for a week, I find myself still in TechEX recuperation mode. I had all of the best intentions for the plane ride home from Denver, when thoughts are fresh, to write down all of the inspirations and thoughts I collected while attending TechEX22. As…
December 14, 2022
As part of our ongoing commitment to providing you with additional opportunities to benefit from the insights and expertise of InCommon Catalysts, we introduced a quarterly Q&A column, Catalyst to Catalyst, that we feature in our e-newsletter InCommon News. Think of Catalyst to Catalyst as a quarterly, virtual advice panel providing perspectives on key identity…
December 14, 2022
Editor’s Note: The Internet Identity Workshop was held Nov. 15–17 at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, Calif. Nicole Roy (center) is pictured here with colleagues Paul Caskey (right) and Debbie Bucci (left). The Identity and Access Management landscape is rapidly evolving with the adoption of OpenID Connect Federation by the Italian government, investments…
December 9, 2022
By Kyle Lewis, Chair, Sirtfi Exercise Planning Working Group On November 14–18, 2022, ten participating organizations from the InCommon Federation came together to practice cybersecurity incident response cooperation using the REFEDS Sirtfi framework. This event culminated ten months of work by InCommon’s Sirtfi Exercise Planning Working Group (SEPWG) to pull off a distributed, multi-organizational cybersecurity…
December 9, 2022
I’m not sure how many of you remember 2020, but most of it is a blur for me. In 2019, the NET+ Duo Service Advisory Board decided to conduct an MFA Community Survey to better understand how their peers used MFA and then build on the results to drive additional community adoption of MFA. We…
December 1, 2022
Provisioning is hard. Provisioning well is even harder. There are many ways an organization can provision identities, credentials, services, and more, but finding ways that scale, handle edge cases, and stand the test of time can be extremely challenging. Then there’s de-provisioning: the thing that we say we’ll get to later but don’t until there’s…
November 18, 2022
Engagement with the community 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 and resolve common challenges in research and education. InCommon’s Advisory Committees are essential to moving this work forward. More than…
November 16, 2022
We’re just a few weeks away from the 2022 Internet2 Technology Exchange (TechEX), taking place in Denver from December 5–9. Nine-time TechEX presenter Nick Lewis, program manager, NET+ Cloud Services – Security and Identity, will be one of the featured speakers for the identity and access management (IAM) track. (Check out the IAM track of…
