September 26, 2024

InCommon’s 20-Year Milestone: Connecting Educators and Research Through Collaboration and Community with Sean Reynolds

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

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

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

Make Way for Mobility Day at the 2024 Internet2 Technology Exchange

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

Self-Service, Security, and Strategy: InCommon Certificate Service Webinar Speakers Offer Their Experience and Expertise

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

Implementation at an Intersection: InCommon Catalyst West Arete and Penn State Develop Open Access Workflow

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

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…