September 19, 2024
Edited by Apryl Motley, CAE – Communications & Technical Writing Consultant As part of our ongoing commitment to providing you with additional opportunities to benefit from the insights and expertise of InCommon Catalysts, we are continuing their quarterly Q&A column, Catalyst to Catalyst, which we feature in our e-newsletter InCommon News. Think of Catalyst to…
September 18, 2024
By Brett Bieber, Chair, eduroam-US Advisory Committee We’re excited that Internet2 will once again host Mobility Day in conjunction with the 2024 Internet2 Technology Exchange, from December 9-13, in Boston, Massachusetts. Please mark your calendars for Monday, December 9, 1-4:30 p.m., and plan to attend as a participant or presenter. Review the agenda from last…
September 13, 2024
Edited by Apryl Motley, CAE – Communications & Technical Writing Consultant Interested in knowing how your colleagues manage and update hundreds or thousands of certificates on a regular basis, including connecting Certificate Manager (SCM) to servers and services to automate certificate renewal? And using ACME to build a hub-and-spoke framework for scaling certificate management? To…
August 23, 2024
Estimated reading time: 3 minutes CASE STUDY CLOSE UP For the past several years, Penn State University Libraries and West Arete have collaborated on organizing and unifying the university’s research metadata, which includes information about publications, grants, faculty activities, news stories, honors and awards, graduate committees, facilities, and equipment. This ongoing collaboration provided the foundation…
August 21, 2024
By: Jean Chorazyczewski, InCommon Academy Director In a time where digital security is paramount, higher education institutions face unprecedented challenges in protecting their vast digital ecosystems. From student records to groundbreaking research data, the stakes have never been higher. Enter passkeys: a revolutionary approach to authentication that promises to enhance security and simplify the user…
August 19, 2024
By Kevin Morooney – Vice President of Trust and Identity and NET+, Internet2 There’s a difference between saying, “Let’s see if we can put someone on the moon,” and instead saying “We’re putting someone on the moon.” A big difference. As I thought about where InCommon has been and where we’re headed next, John F.…
August 14, 2024
By Kyle Lewis, Chair, Sirtfi Exercise Planning Working Group To continue increasing cross-federation levels of trust in cybersecurity, InCommon is hosting its third annual community Sirtfi cybersecurity exercise this fall. Sirtfi (Security Incident Response Trust Framework for Federated Identity) is part of InCommon’s baseline expectations. The event is open to InCommon participants and eduGAIN partners,…
August 14, 2024
By Nicole Roy, Internet2 and Kevin Hickey, University of Detroit-Mercy New InCommon Working Group Explores Next-Generation Credentials Trust Frameworks The Internet2 Community Architecture Committee for Trust and Identity (CACTI) is continuing the work started last year with the community’s initial exploration of possible uses for what CACTI calls “next-generation credentials”: Credentials which exist within a…
August 7, 2024
By Kevin Morooney, Vice President of Trust and Identity and NET+, Internet2 We continue to celebrate InCommon’s 20th birthday with a series of forward-facing conversations featuring prominent leaders in the research and higher education (R&E) community. Today, we spotlight a conversation I had with Jack Suess, vice president of Information Technology at the University of…
July 11, 2024
Estimated reading time: 3 minutes CASE STUDY CLOSE UP The University of Pennsylvania’s Information Computing & Services (ISC) department worked with InCommon Catalyst Instrumental Identity to document requirements, determine current state, and develop use cases to initiate an RFP process and vendor selection for a new identity governance and administration (IGA) solution. Instrumental Identity helped…
