September 22, 2023

InCommon IAM Online Speaker Spotlight: Q&A with Mandi Witkovsky, Director of Identity & Access Management at Purdue University

By Apryl Motley – Technical Writer & Communications Lead, Internet2 Trust and Identity/NET+ Service Mandi Witkovsky, director of identity & access management at Purdue University, will be our featured speaker for “Purdue University’s IAM Modernization Success Story” as part of IAM Online on Wednesday, September 27 at 1 p.m. ET with Charise Arrowood, executive director,…

September 19, 2023

Catch Up with InCommon Catalysts During CAMP Week at TechEX23

By Apryl Motley – Technical Writer & Communications Lead, Internet2 Trust and Identity/NET+ Service Just as the name implies, the InCommon Catalyst Program, now in its third year, was launched to bring added energy and expertise to the research and higher ed (R&E) community’s identity and access management (IAM) efforts. IAM professionals attending CAMP Week…

September 15, 2023

InCommon Futures2 Moves Forward with Discussion at TechEX23 and Launch of Needs Assessment

By Apryl Motley, CAE, InCommon Communications Lead Note: InCommon Writer John McCormack contributed to this post. The 2023 Internet2 Technology Exchange (TechEX23) takes place next week (September 18–22) in Minneapolis. During this annual event, Marc Wallman, vice president information technology division, North Dakota State University, and Kevin Morooney, vice president of trust and identity and NET+,…

August 18, 2023

InCommon Advisory Committee Nominations Open Now Through Oct. 1

Bring Your Unique Expertise to InCommon Advisory Committees InCommon seeks enthusiastic volunteers to serve on its advisory committees. We invite your nominations for membership, including self-nominations. The window for nominations closes on Friday, October 1, 2023, and new terms start in January 2024. It’s easy to submit a nomination for yourself or a colleague; complete…

August 31, 2023

InCommon Service Spotlight: Q&A with Chris Misra, Vice Chancellor and CIO, University of Massachusetts Amherst

By Apryl Motley, CAE – InCommon Communications Lead Estimated reading time: 3 minutes This year’s Call for InCommon Advisory Committee Nominations is under way, and we are highlighting some of our current and past volunteers from the community. You can volunteer too! Submit your nomination by October 1. Chris Misra, who serves as vice chancellor…

August 30, 2023

TechEX23 CAMP Speaker Spotlight: Q&A with Judith Bush

By Heather Berry, Writer, InCommon Judith Bush, identity and access management (IAM) architect at OCLC (formerly known as the Online Computer Library Center), has presented at the Internet2 Technology Exchange (TechEX) multiple times. She’ll be a copresenter this year in Minneapolis, September 18-22, for the IAM track. There’s still time to join us! Register now.…

August 21, 2023

NIH Update August 2023: Making Sure Your Identity Proofing Processes Are Ready

By Tom Barton, InCommon Research Consultant, Internet2 On April 20, InCommon hosted a briefing on the InCommon community’s readiness to support access to National Institutes of Health services (NIH) (see “Key Resources from MFA and Identity Requirements Webinar”). As discussed during the briefing, over time all NIH sensitive data services will require some form of…

August 21, 2023

InCommon to Host Second 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 second annual community Sirtfi cybersecurity exercise this fall. Sirtfi is part of InCommon’s baseline expectations. The event is open to InCommon participants and eduGAIN partners, who will practice coordinating a response to a…

August 15, 2023

Amendments to Federation Operating Practices and Policies Approved

COMMUNITY NOTICE On Monday, August 7, 2023, the InCommon Steering Committee approved the following amendments to the InCommon Federation Operating Practices and Policies (FOPP): The InCommon office address changed. The U.S. Department of Education’s methodology for categorizing its national and regional accrediting bodies changed, unifying these bodies into one set of accreditors, and necessitating an…

August 11, 2023

TechEX23 CAMP Speaker Spotlight: 4 Questions for Christopher Bongaarts

By John McCormack, Writer, InCommon Christopher Bongaarts, IAM architect, University of Minnesota, says that if your IAM infrastructure has been lingering in a state of limbo for a long time and has “dark, cobwebbed corners,” you need to come hear what he and co-presenter Kellen Murphy, identity architect & solution engineer, University of Virginia, have…