October 17, 2019
By Heather Flanagan (Note: This is the third in a series of blog posts highlighting key sessions at this year’s Technology Exchange (TechEx), December 9-13, 2019, in New Orleans). In September 2019, REFEDS (an association of national research and education federations, including InCommon), with the support of NORDUnet and Identity Python, coordinated the first Trust & Identity…
October 9, 2019
Passwordless Authentication with Shibboleth and WebAuthn By Mary McKee and Shilen Patel (both of Duke University) (Note: This is the second in a series of blog posts highlighting key sessions at this year’s Technology Exchange (TechEx), December 9-13, 2019, in New Orleans). Multi-factor doesn’t have to mean multi-step. Duke Unlock lets you access your Duke account as…
October 1, 2019
InCommon needs enthusiastic volunteers to bring their unique expertise to our community groups. Serving on InCommon committees is an excellent way to serve the community, broaden your professional network, and develop and hone leadership skills. We invite you to nominate people for membership, including self-nomination. Nominations close on October 15, 2019, and new terms start…
September 25, 2019
By Ken Klingenstein (Note: This is the first in a series of blog posts highlighting key sessions at this year’s Technology Exchange (TechEx), December 9-13, 2019, in New Orleans). In the last few years, proxies and portals have become a common way for communities to integrate access to their diverse networked resources as a cohesive…
September 10, 2019
InCommon Collaboration Success Program WebinarThursday, September 12, 20192 pm ET / 1 pm CT / Noon MT / 11 am PT (30 minutes) https://internet2.zoom.us/j/272006133 InCommon will offer the second Collaboration Success Program starting later this year, an opportunity for you to solve an IAM problem with training, support from experts, and working together with peer organizations.…
September 6, 2019
By David Bantz, University of Alaska and vice-chair of CTAB In 2017, the InCommon Community Trust and Assurance Board (CTAB) began leading the InCommon community to develop and transition to Baseline Expectations for Trust in Federation. The Baseline Expectations define a set of common practices aimed to increase trust, make collaboration more predictable, and ensure…
August 28, 2019
Tales from the Cloud: Real-world Experience Moving IdM to the Cloud at Illinois Wednesday, September 11, 2019 2 pm ET / 1 pm CT / Noon MT / 11 am PT Are you considering moving some or all of your identity management infrastructure to the cloud? Want to know more about using containerized software? Learn…
August 28, 2019
The time involved in installing and configuring key software components has been significantly reduced, and training opportunities have expanded to help organizations come up to speed more quickly. Those are two of the findings of the final report from the Trust and Identity in Education and Research (TIER) program. The report was delivered to the…
August 28, 2019
Looking for reasons to consider the production release candidate of the InCommon metadata query service (MDQ)? Here’s an in-use memory graph at the moment a university switched to using MDQ in its production identity provider servers. In addition, a service provider reports: “We were able to switch to using MDQ. The service restarts in 5…
June 21, 2019
InCommon BaseCAMP Preview Webinar Tuesday, July 9, 2019 2 pm ET / 1 pm CT / Noon MT / 11 am PT (30-minutes max) Come CAMPing – BaseCAMP Preview for Everyone InCommon BaseCAMP brings together all those interested in the basics of identity and access management — whether you manage identities, make resources available to…
