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…
October 5, 2022
With this year’s Call for InCommon Advisory Committee Nominations currently underway, we are highlighting some of our current and past volunteers from the community. (You can volunteer too! Submit your nomination by October 21.) Josh Drake was a member of the Community Architecture Committee for Trust and Identity (CACTI) in 2021. Learn more about Josh…
October 3, 2022
Internet2 Releases New NET+ Service The Internet2 NET+ team is excited to announce the release of NET+ Kion, one of the leading cloud enablement solution providers. In response to calls from the research and education community for account automation, cost management, and security monitoring tools for cloud enablement across AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud, Internet2…
September 19, 2022
Did you know that in 2021 InCommon volunteers collectively contributed 2,343 hours of time to help move the IAM community forward? We couldn’t do all we do without our valued volunteers. With this year’s Call for InCommon Advisory Committee Nominations currently underway, we are highlighting some of our current and past volunteers from the community.…
September 19, 2022
As part of our ongoing commitment to providing you with additional opportunities to benefit from the insights and expertise of InCommon Catalysts, earlier this year 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…
