January 19, 2022
Robust engagement in Internet2’s Community Groups is the linchpin for moving our community forward. From chartering working groups, advisory groups, and communities of interest, to developing best practices and guiding new solutions – thought leaders from institutions large and small engage regularly to identify challenges and determine new ways to fill the gaps and meet…
December 13, 2021
InCommon participants established the InCommon Baseline Expectations for Trust in Federation in 2018 as a means to increase trust and interoperability among InCommon federation participants and to define what they expect of each other, and of InCommon Operations. The second iteration of Baseline Expectations (Baseline Expectations 2, or BE2) was ratified by the InCommon Steering…
December 3, 2021
Just six months have passed since the InCommon Catalyst community partner program launched in June 2021. And evidence of the Catalysts’ deep, ongoing commitment to the InCommon community is already stacking up. Catalysts are industry leaders and Internet2 members that actively contribute to identity and access management (IAM) within the research and education (R&E) community.…
November 24, 2021
eduroam is expanding and changing to serve K-12. Internet2 is moving all subscribers to a cloud-forward architecture and new configuration management portal. We are providing weekly updates on the transition. You may find more information on our Weekly Progress wiki. Briefly, here is what you need to know: eduroam Transition Updates We now have 859…
November 16, 2021
Ready for an IAM movie night? InCommon + GÉANT’s 2021 CAMP Week is all wrapped up, but the party’s still going! To allow the broader community access to some of the incredibly insightful content from our virtual conference, we happily announce the release of three stellar presentations, ready to view at your convenience. Make a…
November 15, 2021
We’re excited to share recent developments in the Grouper project. Grouper is an enterprise group and access management system that simplifies access management by letting you use the same group or role in many places in your organization. Grouper is part of the InCommon Trusted Access Platform, an identity and access management suite of software designed…
November 12, 2021
In the Fall of 2020, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) announced that they were making changes to increase the security of many of their services to better protect the sensitive data shared with researchers. Among those are requirements for federated logins: Their approach, being implemented in partnership with InCommon, is to gradually enforce these…
August 19, 2021
By Erin Murtha, Director of the InCommon Academy Is access management giving you the blues? Are you interested in learning how to better manage access and permissions for your team or across your organization? Do you need a tool that automates changes to access privileges as a person’s role changes? If you answered “Yes!” to…
August 19, 2021
By Tom Barton and Glenn Lipscomb The National Institutes of Health (NIH) previously announced new identity management requirements that could affect access for some of your researchers and scientists. As of September 15, 2021, NIH will transition to multi-factor authentication (MFA) and the release of attributes that are part of the REFEDS Research & Scholarship…
July 29, 2021
The InCommon Community Trust and Assurance Board (CTAB) invites the community to join its next Office Hours. The next Baseline Expectations 2 (BE2) Office Hour will be on Tuesday August 31, 2021 at 1 p.m. ET / Noon CT / 11 a.m. MT/ 10 a.m. PT. CTAB members and subject matter experts will be on hand…
