May 23, 2023
Get IAM Done. Faster. Better. Together. That’s the promise of the InCommon Collaboration Success Program (CSP). And it’s one we’ve been delivering on since kicking off the program’s first cohort in 2018. The expression of interest period for the CSP 2023–2024 cohort is open through July 17, and no one better communicates the program’s value…
June 20, 2023
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 Catalyst as a quarterly, virtual advice panel providing perspectives on key…
June 13, 2023
By John McCormack, Writer, InCommon “Gathering Requirements & Implementing IAM Initiatives.” Addressing this challenge is, perhaps, bigger than it looks, according to Ian Bruckner, project manager and portfolio coordinator, Office of Digital Transformation and Process Improvement, Illinois State University; Tommy Doan, IAM lead, Office of Information Technology, Southern Methodist University; and Mandi Witkovski, director of…
June 6, 2023
“Identity management is what ideally knits all our disparate services into a cohesive experience for our faculty, staff, and students,” observed Marc Wallman, current chair of the InCommon Steering Committee and vice president, Information Technology Division, North Dakota State University. “Nothing else comes close.” Last month, Wallman and Kevin Morooney, Internet2’s vice president of trust…
June 6, 2023
Ben Rappleyea, manager of the Office of Identity and Access Management at Illinois State University, will be our featured speaker for “InCommon IAM 101” as part of IAM Online on Wednesday, June 14 at 1 p.m. ET with Marta K. Lang, senior IT manager, Identity & Access Management, The University of Texas at Austin, serving…
June 5, 2023
Meet Warren Anderson, IAM Ligo lead at the California Institute of Technology. During his 25 years at Caltech, Warren has learned a thing or two about federated identity. He’ll be one of three speakers for the session “Federation – What it Is and Why it Matters” at InCommon BaseCAMP 2023. We asked Warren to weigh…
June 1, 2023
The InCommon Certificate Service has been very successful and seen significant growth during the last decade since InCommon and Sectigo first signed an agreement. There are currently over 650 institutions subscribed to the InCommon Certificate Service. The InCommon Certificate Service Team has begun conversations with Sectigo to explore including additional features. To that end, we…
May 22, 2023
Grady Bailey (left) and Jeremiah Haywood (right) Check out the peer-developed program for InCommon BaseCAMP 2023, and register now. Grady Bailey, senior software engineer and team lead, University of Texas at Austin (UT), and Jeremiah Haywood, lead identity and access management administrator, Illinois State University (ISU), both want members of the research and higher education…
May 25, 2023
There was no shortage of discussion about various aspects of trust and identity during the 2023 Internet2 Community Exchange (CommEX 23) held in Atlanta, May 8– 12, 2023. Identity and access management (IAM) community members in attendance took full advantage of the opportunity to ask questions, share strategies, and gain insights. Here are four that…
May 18, 2023
How can we help your team enhance its knowledge and use of the Sirtfi framework, so you’re prepared to cooperate if and when a cybersecurity incident spans multiple organizations in the research and education community? That’s the main question on our minds as the members of Sirtfi Exercise Planning Working Group (SEPWG) begin to plan…
