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…
August 19, 2021
By Netta Caligari, InCommon Community Success Manager Interested in how our community drives the work at Internet2? Want to have a say in defining Baseline Expectations, influencing software direction, or contributing to eduroam practices? We encourage you to join an InCommon advisory group during our Fall community recruitment season! Each fall, we announce a call for…
August 18, 2021
In March 2020, the international science community asked schools and research organizations to help make it easier for researchers and scientists to join global collaborations formed in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. A key component to enabling that collaboration is for an identity provider to release a few pieces of information to qualifying resources in…
June 8, 2021
WASHINGTON, D.C., June 8, 2021– Internet2 announced the launch of the InCommon Catalyst Program aimed at supporting higher education institutions, research organizations, and sponsored partners with enabling better security, access to services, and user experience through InCommon’s integrated service and software solutions. The program includes eight organizations specializing in a wide range of identity and…
July 15, 2021
By Amber Rasche, Senior Communications Specialist Paul Caskey is one of several instructors and subject matter experts who facilitate the InCommon Collaboration Success Program (CSP). Offering a modular professional development approach with just-in-time help from just-the-right people, the program helps higher education and research organizations overcome obstacles to reach their identity and access management (IAM)…
July 13, 2021
The success of an institution’s Identity Access Management tools is largely determined by how they are managed. “Regardless of design or purchase decisions, IAM tools are only as effective as the institutional philosophy and commitments behind their management,” Mary McKee, director of IM and security services at Duke University, said during the InCommon “Intro to…
July 12, 2021
By Lacey Vickery, Identity and Access Management Architect, University of North Carolina at Charlotte Lacey Vickery and the Identity and Access Management team at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte (UNCC) are alumni of the InCommon Collaboration Success Program (CSP). A unique professional development and upskilling opportunity, the CSP helps organizations reach their IAM…
