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Catalyst to Catalyst (Winter 2023): Ideas and Insights from InCommon Catalysts

Edited by Apryl Motley, CAE – InCommon Communications Lead 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 Catalyst as…

InCommon IAM Online Speaker Spotlight: Q&A with Microsoft Education Security Chief Technology Officer Corey Lee

By Apryl Motley – Technical Writer & Communications Lead, Internet2 Trust and Identity/NET+ Service Learn More About How Recent Microsoft Announcement Signals a Win for Multilateral Federation in the Research and Education Community This spring, Microsoft published documentation and guidance on multilateral federation for Azure AD/Entra ID campuses – including information about solutions like Shibboleth…

Redesigning the InCommon Certificate Service

By Lisa Doherty, Chair, InCommon Certificate Service Redesign Group The InCommon Certificate Service has been very successful, and it has seen a lot of growth over the last ten years since the agreement between InCommon and Sectigo was first signed with over 650 institutions subscribed to the InCommon Certificate Service. InCommon has begun conversations with…

Keeping the Music Playing: IAM Today and Tomorrow

By Kevin Morooney, vice president of Trust and Identity and NET+, Internet2 Friedrich Nietzsche: “Notice that autumn is more the season of the soul than of nature.” Ka’ala, @alohakaala: “Autumn teaches us the beauty of letting go. Growth requires release—it’s what the trees do.” Ernest Hemingway: “You expected to be sad in the fall. Part…

InCommon IAM Online Speaker Spotlight: Internet2’s Johnny Lasker and Provision IAM’s Matt Growden

By Apryl Motley, CAE, Communications Lead, InCommon Johnny Lasker, principal service integration engineer in the Trust & Identity division at Internet2,  and Matt Growden, CISSP, executive director of Identity Services at InCommon Catalyst Provision IAM, will be two of our featured speakers for “eduroam Logs: Demo of Grafana with IAM ” as part of IAM…

Q&A With Mary McKee: Building IAM Bridges for Inclusion and Collaboration

By Amber Rasche Recent Microsoft Announcement Signals a Win for Multilateral Federation in the Research and Education Community Ask Mary McKee, senior director of engineering at Cirrus Identity, about the role of vendor-neutral standards and solutions for identity and access management (IAM) in research and education (R&E), and her response might surprise you. “Maybe it’s…

New InCommon Catalyst Instrumental Identity Brings Strong Ties to Higher Ed and the Open-Source Community

By Apryl Motley, InCommon Communications Lead Mark Earnest recalls delivering some of the first presentations of his IT career during InCommon BaseCAMP and Advanced CAMP in the early 2000s. Now a seasoned IT professional, Mark is CEO of Instrumental Identity, the latest provider to join the InCommon Catalyst Program. “Given our team’s background in university…

InCommon Certificate Service to Highlight Ways to Automate Deployment and Renewal of Certificates

The InCommon Certificate Service has many ways to help automate the deployment and renewal of certificates.  To learn more about automating the deployment and renewal of certificates, join fellow subscribers for a webinar, “Preparing for 90 Day Certificates, Using Net Agent & ACME to Automate Renewals,” on Tuesday, November 7 at 12 p.m. (Register now.)…

Bridging the Digital Divide in Omaha: eduroam for All

ANNOUNCEMENT We’re excited to announce a first-of-its-kind eduroam pilot project in Omaha that aims to bridge the digital divide for K-12 students. Internet2 is collaborating with Network Nebraska through the ConnectEd Nebraska program and Cox Communications to expand the reach of the eduroam global Wi-Fi access service. With access to eduroam at over 600 Cox…

Catalyst to Catalyst (Fall 2023): Ideas and Insights from InCommon Catalysts

Edited by Apryl Motley, CAE – InCommon Communications Lead 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 Catalyst as…