June 21, 2024
Edited by Apryl Motley, CAE – Communications & Technical Writing Consultant Editor’s Note: This month marks the third anniversary of the launch of the InCommon Catalyst Program. We thank the catalysts for their ongoing contributions to the community and know the best is yet to come. As part of our ongoing commitment to providing you…
June 20, 2024
By Kyle Lewis, Chair, Sirtfi Exercise Planning Working Group Greetings fellow InCommoners! It will soon be time to assemble again, dust off our security response plans, and practice using Sirtfi in response to a distributed cyber attack against your universities. A simulated attack, that is, and by simulated, we mean a narrated story during a…
June 20, 2024
By Chris Hyzer, University of Pennsylvania If your financial planner or your lawyer talks to you about life cycle planning, it can be a weighty discussion. Luckily this blog is about something more fun, at least if you are an access management geek. A joke is told; you decide if it is funny. If so,…
June 17, 2024
By Iain Oldman – Copywriter, Content Marketing, Internet2 InCommon Academy is kicking off the training season early with a summer session of Grouper school. You can now get a head start on your Grouper training ahead of the fall semester. This virtual Grouper training will run Aug. 19-22, and interested participants can sign up for…
June 10, 2024
By Kevin Morooney, vice president of Trust and Identity and NET+, Internet2 As InCommon celebrates its 20th birthday, it’s an ideal time to reflect on the progress we’ve made and look forward to exciting developments in the future. To gain perspective on this milestone, I recently spoke with Klaas Wierenga, chief information and technology officer…
May 24, 2024
By Iain Oldman – Copywriter, Content Marketing, Internet2 As institutions set out to establish crucial identity and access management (IAM) programs, their IAM teams will inevitably face a slew of new questions. Understanding core components and navigating key decisions about infrastructure, staffing, and budgets is just the beginning of the process. Each IAM program faces…
May 21, 2024
By Jean Chorazyczewski, InCommon Academy Director In today’s evolving digital landscape, institutions must embrace the opportunities that new technology offers while simultaneously navigating an ever-evolving landscape of security threats. Building trust and ensuring robust cybersecurity are critical pillars for long-term success. Dr. Donna Kidwell, chief information security officer and deputy CIO at the University of…
May 13, 2024
By Nicole Roy, InCommon Director of Technology and Strategy Consider these scenarios: While these use-cases are performed today using legacy methods spanning the gamut from use of plastic student ID cards, metal keys, and paper transcripts, which must be physically presented or used, to electronic methods, including shipping large documents around the network, none of…
May 10, 2024
CASE STUDY CLOSE UP The University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB), participated in the 2023 cohort of the InCommon Collaboration Success Program (CSP) to help bring two identity and access management (IAM) teams together to work towards the same goals. (Read the case study.) “We are looking at existing redundancies, for example, between what [system]…
May 8, 2024
By Kenneth “Ken” Klingenstein, Internet2 Evangelist for Trust and Identity We had no idea what we were doing. Led by our fearless leader, RL “Bob” Morgan, we were wandering through green fields, looking for technologies that would enable institutions to share authentication information and attributes. Our Shibboleth for that effort was to authenticate locally and…
