April 9, 2025
By Jody Tracy, Program Manager, InCommon Academy InCommon Hosts Important Community Conversation In response to community requests, InCommon recently brought together 100+ identity and access management (IAM) practitioners and community members in research & education to discuss the challenges and best practices of managing identities and accounts at their institutions. The March 13, 2025 virtual…
March 25, 2025
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…
February 20, 2025
By Ann West, Executive Director, InCommon and AVP, Trust & Identity, Internet2 Remember when logging into different university systems felt like you needed a password manager just for your password managers? Those days are becoming history, thanks to InCommon’s ambitious Futures 2 strategy launched in March 2024. As we mark the one-year milestone, let’s explore…
February 14, 2025
By Emily Eisbruch and the Grouper Team In 2023, when a community group formed to improve Grouper documentation, Noelette Stout of Idaho State University stepped up to coordinate the effort. “I wanted to contribute to the community and provide any assistance I could offer,” Noelette explained. “Grouper has been such an invaluable tool for us,…
February 10, 2025
By Albert Wu, InCommon Federation Manager, Internet2 Trust & Identity I am pleased to announce an InCommon Federation community consultation of the 2024 InCommon Federation Proxies Working Group Report. This consultation is open through February 28, 2025 at 5 p.m. PDT. (You’ll need to sign into the Internet2 wiki to post your feedback, and we…
January 21, 2025
Edited by Apryl Motley, CAE – Communications & Technical Writing Consultant Throughout 2024, we asked members of the InCommon community to share the best identity and access management (IAM) advice they had ever received and from whom. Here are five pieces of the best IAM advice ever. 1. “Slow and steady wins the race.” (Marta…
January 17, 2025
By Ken Klingenstein, Internet2 Evangelist for Trust and Identity The Internet2 middleware initiative that would eventually grow into what is now known as InCommon began with a National Science Foundation-funded workshop called Early Harvest in the fall of 1999. The workshop was intended to glean a first understanding of good approaches to academic identity and…
January 16, 2025
The InCommon Community and Trust Assurance Board (CTAB) seeks volunteers to participate in the Sirtfi Exercise Planning Working Group (SEPWG) to help design and run the annual distributed tabletop exercise. With the success of the last three years’ cybersecurity cooperation exercises, InCommon is continuing to offer opportunities for practicing cybersecurity coordination using the Security Incident…
January 9, 2025
By Jean Chorazyczewski, InCommon Academy Director March 2024 marked an important moment when InCommon took a pivotal step forward with its Futures2 Strategy, charting a course to become the community’s trusted authority for Identity and Access Management (IAM) in research and education (R&E). Now, as we approach the one-year milestone, the initial results are showing…
December 18, 2024
By Kyle Lewis, Chair, Sirtfi Exercise Planning Working Group From phishing attacks to compromised end-user devices, federation organizations have a coordinated line of defense when bad actors come after them individually or collectively. The Security Incident Response Trust Framework for Federated Identity (Sirtfi), which is part of InCommon’s Baseline Expectations for federation members, provides federation…
