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…
November 15, 2022
2022-23 InCommon Collaboration Success Program Cohort Currently Under Way Collaboration around access and identity lifecycle management continues. The 2022-23 Cohort of the InCommon Collaboration Success Program (CSP) kicked off in September. There are nine institutions participating in this year’s cohort: Tufts University University of New Brunswick University of California, Santa Barbara University of Virginia University…
August 9, 2022
BaseCAMP 2002 (held June 6-10) featured four fabulous Lightning Talks. These YouTube videos are now available through our IAM Online platform. Below is what you can expect to learn from each presentation. DevOps in 10Presenter: Dave Shafer, DevOps Manager, Trust and Identity, Internet2Learn how tools and techniques inspired by agile software development can help you…
July 13, 2022
Get IAM Done. Faster. Better. Together. That’s the guiding philosophy behind the InCommon Collaboration Success Program (CSP). For Clemson University’s Kathy Wright, systems programmer/developer, the program has more than lived up to its ideals, particularly in the area of staff training and development. Like so many research and education institutions, the university recognized the need…
July 27, 2022
We have extended the expression of interest period for the InCommon Collaboration Success Program (CSP) 2022–2023 cohort until August 12. There’s still time to join us for the most collaborative program designed specifically for identity and access management in the research and education community. Whether you are starting to brainstorm your identity and access management…
