May 21, 2024

IAM Online Speaker Spotlight: Unlocking Strategies for Cybersecurity and Digital Trust with Dr. Donna Kidwell

By Jean Chorazyczewski, InCommon Academy Director In today’s evolving digital landscape, institutions must embrace the opportunities that new technology offers while simultaneously navigating an ever-evolving landscape of security threats. Building trust and ensuring robust cybersecurity are critical pillars for long-term success. Dr. Donna Kidwell, chief information security officer and deputy CIO at the University of…

May 13, 2024

CACTI Working Group Identifies Four Key Characteristics of a Next-Generation Credential Ecosystem (and 30+ Use Cases)

By Nicole Roy, InCommon Director of Technology and Strategy Consider these scenarios: While these use-cases are performed today using legacy methods spanning the gamut from use of plastic student ID cards, metal keys, and paper transcripts, which must be physically presented or used, to electronic methods, including shipping large documents around the network, none of…

May 10, 2024

The Makings of a Merger: University California, Santa Barbara Brings Two IAM Teams Together during InCommon’s Collaboration Success Program

CASE STUDY CLOSE UP The University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB), participated in the 2023 cohort of the InCommon Collaboration Success Program (CSP) to help bring two identity and access management (IAM) teams together to work towards the same goals. (Read the case study.) “We are looking at existing redundancies, for example, between what [system]…

May 8, 2024

When Pigs Fly: On Impossible Ambitions, Reaching New Heights, and Celebrating InCommon’s 20th Birthday

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

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…

April 29, 2024

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…

April 25, 2024

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…

April 24, 2024

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…

April 22, 2024

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…

April 19, 2024

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,…