August 21, 2023
By Tom Barton, InCommon Research Consultant, Internet2 On April 20, InCommon hosted a briefing on the InCommon community’s readiness to support access to National Institutes of Health services (NIH) (see “Key Resources from MFA and Identity Requirements Webinar”). As discussed during the briefing, over time all NIH sensitive data services will require some form of…
August 21, 2023
By Kyle Lewis, Chair, Sirtfi Exercise Planning Working Group To continue increasing cross-federation levels of trust in cybersecurity, InCommon is hosting its second annual community Sirtfi cybersecurity exercise this fall. Sirtfi is part of InCommon’s baseline expectations. The event is open to InCommon participants and eduGAIN partners, who will practice coordinating a response to a…
August 15, 2023
COMMUNITY NOTICE On Monday, August 7, 2023, the InCommon Steering Committee approved the following amendments to the InCommon Federation Operating Practices and Policies (FOPP): The InCommon office address changed. The U.S. Department of Education’s methodology for categorizing its national and regional accrediting bodies changed, unifying these bodies into one set of accreditors, and necessitating an…
August 11, 2023
By John McCormack, Writer, InCommon Christopher Bongaarts, IAM architect, University of Minnesota, says that if your IAM infrastructure has been lingering in a state of limbo for a long time and has “dark, cobwebbed corners,” you need to come hear what he and co-presenter Kellen Murphy, identity architect & solution engineer, University of Virginia, have…
August 9, 2023
By Heather Berry, Writer, InCommon Scott Cantor has presented at Internet2’s Technology Exchange (TechEX) more times than he can count. Scott will be co-presenting at this year’s conference in Minneapolis, September 18–22, along with Judith Bush from OCLC and Gary Windham from Cirrus Identity. Register now. Their session, “Browser Privacy: Benefit or Threat,” will discuss…
August 7, 2023
By John McCormack, Writer, InCommon We’re just a few weeks away from the 2023 Internet2 Technology Exchange (TechEX), taking place in Minneapolis, September 18–22. Register now. During the event, Summer Scanlan, a business systems analyst at University of California Berkeley, will offer her perspective during a Lightning Talk entitled “Lived Name: Implementation Considerations.” We asked Summer to offer…
July 24, 2023
The expertise and real-world knowledge of InCommon Academy instructors is unparalleled in the field of identity and access management (IAM). They consistently earn high marks from software training attendees with 83% rating them very satisfactory for: Due in large part to their efforts to design practical, hands-on workshops, InCommon Academy software training isn’t your run-of-the-mill…
July 24, 2023
By Kevin Morooney, vice president of Trust and Identity and NET+, Internet2 I am fortunate to live in a place where I experience all four seasons. It is summer where I live. I’ve come to enjoy anticipating the changes in the upcoming season and reflecting on the opportunities the past season enabled. In my youth,…
July 19, 2023
By Tom Barton, InCommon Research Consultant, Internet2 In Fall 2020, National Institutes of Health (NIH) leadership first addressed the InCommon community about how allowing researchers to use InCommon-enabled home credentials made it easier and faster for them to collaborate on the development of the COVID-19 vaccine. At Internet2’s TechEX 2020, NIH highlighted three aspects of…
July 12, 2023
InCommon is working to ensure subscribers to its certificate service get the updates they need to begin preparing for client certificate changes coming in August. These changes are forthcoming because of developments at the CA/Browser (CAB) Forum, the organization that sets policy for commercial Certificate Authorities (CAs) trusted by modern web browsers. You may be…
