November 8, 2022
Note: Grouper is one of the software solutions that makes up InCommon’s Trusted Access Platform, the research and education solution for identity and access management (IAM). The InCommon Team appreciates community members’ willingness to share their deployment stories to benefit others as they undertake their own software implementations. Princeton University deployed Grouper in July 2022.…
November 8, 2022
InCommon’s Community Architecture Committee for Trust and Identity (CACTI) will host “Extending IAM to the Cloud: It’s Still Your Program” as part of IAM Online on Wednesday, Nov. 16 at 1 p.m. ET with speakers Margaret Cullen, president and CEO, Painless Security, and Kevin Hickey, director of information security, University of Detroit Mercy. (We want…
November 2, 2022
With our next virtual midPoint Basics workshop coming up November 7–10, we asked instructor Ivan Noris, an expert identity engineer at InCommon Catalyst Evolveum, to share his insights on its benefits. (Register for training with Ivan now.) What do you hope attendees will learn from midPoint training? I hope attendees will understand how midPoint works, why…
September 21, 2022
With our next virtual Shibboleth workshop coming up October 3–7, we asked co-Instructors Paul Caskey, an IAM architect at Internet2, and Paul Riddle, an identity architect at the University of Maryland Baltimore County (UMBC), to share their insights on its benefits. How does understanding more about Shibboleth and implementing it help streamline workload? Paul C.: …
October 17, 2022
The 2022 Internet2 Technology Exchange (TechEX), held in Denver from December 5–9, truly has something for everyone in the research and education community, especially identity and access management (IAM) professionals. (Check out the IAM track of sessions and register now.) A TechEx attendee for almost two decades, Heather Flanagan, principal at InCommon Catalyst Spherical Cow…
October 24, 2022
As I’ve navigated the fall of 2022, I’m struck that it has an exciting familiarity to it. “Exciting” and “familiarity” don’t often go together, so I got to wondering why I was feeling excited about something that wasn’t new and shiny. After a bunch of long dog walks, I think I figured it out. There are…
October 19, 2022
With this year’s Call for InCommon Advisory Committee Nominations in full swing, we are highlighting some of our current and past volunteers from the community. (You can volunteer too! Submit your nomination by October 21.) Five years ago, Keith Wessel began serving on the InCommon Technical Advisory Committee (TAC) and is its current chair. Learn…
March 17, 2021
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…
October 17, 2022
Your organization can leverage COmanage software as a central person registry, a guest management system, and/or a collaboration hub for scholarly collaborations. However, before you configure anything, there are four concepts you should bear in mind: COmanage is primarily, but not exclusively, a registry for people. People are modeled through the information stored about them…
October 5, 2022
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill is on its way toward having passwordless logins. Seven months ago, the university launched a pilot to test its implementation of WebAuthn, known locally as Carolina Key. For our Oct. 19 IAM Online webinar, software engineer Tariq Wilson will discuss the design of and key decisions made…
