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Calling All CAMPers! Submit IAM Session Proposals for TechEX24

By Jean Chorazyczewski, Director, InCommon Academy The 2024 Internet2 Technology Exchange (TechEX24) Call for Proposals is officially underway and will remain open until May 10, 2024. And you know what that means for identity and access management (IAM) professionals? It’s time to throw your tent into the ring and go CAMPing! Answer the call to…

Federation & Identity Assurance Essentials at InCommon BaseCAMP 2024

By Jean Chorazyczewski – InCommon Academy Director Organizations and institutions are increasingly needing to collaborate across geographical and organizational boundaries. But enabling distributed teams to share data and resources easily and securely across these lines is no simple task—unless you understand the power of identity federation frameworks. Two experts in the identity and access management…

University of Washington Gets Upgraded During InCommon’s Collaboration Success Program

CASE STUDY CLOSE UP The University of Washington (UW) participated in the 2023 cohort of the Collaboration Success Program (CSP) with the goal of addressing much needed upgrades to a heavily customized groups service system and exploring implementation of COmanage Registry and COmanage Match. (Read the case study.) During CSP, UW-IT successfully implemented a newer Grouper…

Benefits of InCommon BaseCAMP: Hear it from Former First-Timers

By Iain Oldman – Copywriter, Content Marketing, Internet2 Estimated reading time: 5 minutes BaseCAMP, InCommon’s annual virtual event for identity and access management (IAM) professionals, is only a few weeks away.  Every year, people in research and higher education who are new to IAM and the InCommon community come to BaseCAMP to explore topics related…

Embracing New Technology for Student Success: Takeaways from a Design-Thinking Workshop at CommEX24

By Amber Rasche – Senior Communications Specialist, Internet2 During the 2024 Internet2 Community Exchange, participants in the Embracing New Tech for Student Success workshop applied a human-centered design framework in a set of exercises to align the student journey with the current technological and academic landscape. The workshop – led by Netta Caligari of West…

IAM Online Speaker Spotlight: Intro to Identity & Access Management with UT Austin’s Grady Bailey

By Iain Oldman, Copywriter, Content Marketing, Internet2 Grady Bailey, a team lead and senior software engineer at the University of Texas at Austin, will dive into the fundamentals of identity and access management (IAM) as part of the InCommon IAM Online series. Please join us on May 15 at 1 p.m. ET for Grady’s webinar,…

Mobile Madness: The eduroam Edition

By Sara Jeanes, Director, eduroam and InCommon Certificate Services The eduroam team had some fun with the NCAA Women’s Basketball bracket this year.We thought it would be interesting to look at successful eduroam logins from the 64 schools in the bracket, pitting them head to head to see who would come out as the 2024…

The Future of InCommon Federation Services: 3 Important Enhancements 

By Albert Wu, InCommon Federation Manager, Internet2 Trust & Identity There’s a great deal on the horizon for the InCommon Federation in 2024. We’re pleased to announce three long-awaited enhancements to our services, and I’m excited to share the details with the community to assist in your future planning. 1. Enabling Federated Access to the…

The Power of Partnering with Peers: University of Texas at Austin Builds Lasting Relationships During InCommon’s Collaboration Success Program

CASE STUDY CLOSE UP The University of Texas at Austin (UT Austin) participated in the 2022 cohort of the Collaboration Success Program (CSP) as part of its identity and governance administration (IGA) modernization effort. (Read the case study.) “We used the CSP to learn more about Grouper and midPoint and to get our team some…

Internet2 at the 2024 Cybersecurity and Privacy Professionals Conference

By Nick Lewis – Internet2 Program Manager We are fortunate that this year continues to present so many fantastic opportunities to meet you where you are. Those opportunities include not only Internet2-hosted events but also other important cloud and information security gatherings for the research and education community. Join Internet2 at the 2024 Cybersecurity and…