August 21, 2024

Unlocking the Future of Campus Security: Passkeys and UMBC’s Pioneering Journey

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…

August 19, 2024

Choosing the Moon: InCommon Futures2 Will Take Our Community to New Heights

By Kevin Morooney – Vice President of Trust and Identity and NET+, Internet2 There’s a difference between saying, “Let’s see if we can put someone on the moon,” and instead saying “We’re putting someone on the moon.” A big difference. As I thought about where InCommon has been and where we’re headed next, John F.…

August 14, 2024

InCommon Hosts Third Annual Cybersecurity Cooperation Exercise This Fall

By Kyle Lewis, Chair, Sirtfi Exercise Planning Working Group To continue increasing cross-federation levels of trust in cybersecurity, InCommon is hosting its third annual community Sirtfi cybersecurity exercise this fall. Sirtfi (Security Incident Response Trust Framework for Federated Identity) is part of InCommon’s baseline expectations. The event is open to InCommon participants and eduGAIN partners,…

August 14, 2024

Let’s Check Our Credentials

By Nicole Roy, Internet2 and Kevin Hickey, University of Detroit-Mercy New InCommon Working Group Explores Next-Generation Credentials Trust Frameworks The Internet2 Community Architecture Committee for Trust and Identity (CACTI) is continuing the work started last year with the community’s initial exploration of possible uses for what CACTI calls “next-generation credentials”: Credentials which exist within a…

August 7, 2024

InCommon’s 20-Year Milestone: Unparalleled Community & Indispensable Infrastructure with Jack Suess

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. Today, we spotlight a conversation I had with Jack Suess, vice president of Information Technology at the University of…

July 11, 2024

InCommon Catalyst and UPenn Tackle Complex Identity Matching

Estimated reading time: 3 minutes CASE STUDY CLOSE UP The University of Pennsylvania’s Information Computing & Services (ISC) department worked with InCommon Catalyst Instrumental Identity to document requirements, determine current state, and develop use cases to initiate an RFP process and vendor selection for a new identity governance and administration (IGA) solution. Instrumental Identity helped…

July 9, 2024

Solving IAM Challenges: InCommon Academy’s Fall 2024 Training Lineup

Jean Chorazyczewski, InCommon Academy Director As demands on identity and access management (IAM) teams continue to evolve, staying ahead of the curve is crucial. Summer may be in full swing, but it’s the perfect time to plan for your team’s professional growth this fall. InCommon Academy is excited to announce our Fall 2024 training schedule,…

June 25, 2024

IAM Online Speaker Spotlight: University of Michigan’s Gail Lift and Bruce Timberlake on Implementing Grouper ABAC

By Jean Chorazyczewski, Director, InCommon Academy With Q&A by Gail Lift and Bruce Timberlake, University of Michigan In today’s complex IT landscapes, ensuring secure and efficient access control is paramount. Grouper, an open-source software component of InCommon’s Trusted Access Platform, simplifies group provisioning and permission assignment. But what if you need a more granular and…

June 24, 2024

Making Connections and Looking Ahead: UMass Amherst’s Participation in Two Cohorts of InCommon’s Collaboration Success Program

CASE STUDY CLOSE UP Two times is definitely the charm.The University of Massachusetts, Amherst, participated in both the 2021 and 2023 cohorts of the Collaboration Success Program (CSP) as part of efforts to find a replacement for its15-year-old core IDM system (Read the case study.) “This was our second CSP. In this one (2023), we…

June 21, 2024

Catalyst to Catalyst (Summer 2024): Ideas and Insights from InCommon Catalysts

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…