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…
May 1, 2024
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…
April 29, 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…
April 25, 2024
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…
April 24, 2024
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…
April 22, 2024
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…
April 19, 2024
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,…
April 19, 2024
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…
April 17, 2024
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…
April 17, 2024
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…
