October 3, 2024
By Kevin Morooney, Vice President of Trust and Identity and NET+, Internet2 We continue to celebrate InCommon’s 20th birthday with a series of forward-facing conversations featuring prominent leaders in the research and higher education (R&E) community. For this installment, I chatted with Kevin Thompson, a program director for the Directorate for Computer and Information Science…
October 9, 2024
By Rob Carter, Duke University; Kevin Hickey, University of Detroit Mercy; Kevin Mackie, Oregon Health & Science University; and David Walker, Independent Editor’s Note: This article authored by Kevin Hickey, vice chair, and committee members Rob Carter and Kevin Mackie, and advisor David Walker marks the beginning of a Community Architecture Committee for Trust and…
October 7, 2024
By: Jean Chorazyczewski, InCommon Academy Director IAM Online: October 2024 Speaker Spotlight Article eduroam was started to enable roaming access for researchers. It has since evolved to serve as a standard configuration approach for wireless access in education and research and network trust and privacy have become paramount. On Wednesday, Oct. 16, 2024, at 1…
September 19, 2024
By Iain Oldman – Copywriter, Content Marketing, Internet2 As part of InCommon Academy’s mission to meet the professional development needs of the identity and access management (IAM) community, we are excited to offer a new training course to enhance your knowledge of group and role synchronization solutions. This December, InCommon Academy is running MidPoint Deployment:…
September 26, 2024
Kevin Morooney, vice president of Trust and Identity and NET+, Internet2 Continuing our celebration of InCommon’s 20th birthday, we bring you a conversation with another influential voice in the research and higher education (R&E) community: Sean Reynolds, vice president for Information Technology and CIO at Northwestern University. Sean remains a dedicated and active volunteer with…
September 19, 2024
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…
September 18, 2024
By Brett Bieber, Chair, eduroam-US Advisory Committee We’re excited that Internet2 will once again host Mobility Day in conjunction with the 2024 Internet2 Technology Exchange, from December 9-13, in Boston, Massachusetts. Please mark your calendars for Monday, December 9, 1-4:30 p.m., and plan to attend as a participant or presenter. Review the agenda from last…
September 13, 2024
Edited by Apryl Motley, CAE – Communications & Technical Writing Consultant Interested in knowing how your colleagues manage and update hundreds or thousands of certificates on a regular basis, including connecting Certificate Manager (SCM) to servers and services to automate certificate renewal? And using ACME to build a hub-and-spoke framework for scaling certificate management? To…
August 23, 2024
Estimated reading time: 3 minutes CASE STUDY CLOSE UP For the past several years, Penn State University Libraries and West Arete have collaborated on organizing and unifying the university’s research metadata, which includes information about publications, grants, faculty activities, news stories, honors and awards, graduate committees, facilities, and equipment. This ongoing collaboration provided the foundation…
August 21, 2024
By: Jean Chorazyczewski, InCommon Academy Director In a time where digital security is paramount, higher education institutions face unprecedented challenges in protecting their vast digital ecosystems. From student records to groundbreaking research data, the stakes have never been higher. Enter passkeys: a revolutionary approach to authentication that promises to enhance security and simplify the user…
