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…
April 12, 2024
By Nick Lewis – Internet2 Program Manager We are fortunate that this year continues to present so many fantastic opportunities to meet you where you are. Those opportunities include not only Internet2-hosted events but also other important cloud and information security gatherings for the research and education community. Join Internet2 at the 2024 Cybersecurity and…
April 11, 2024
Edited By Apryl Motley, Communications & Technical Writing Consultant, Internet2 According to several numerology reference texts, the number five signifies curiosity and change. Two words that definitely come to mind as we prepare to welcome five-time speaker Tom Jordan back to InCommon BaseCAMP, June 3-7, 2024. A solutions architect at the University of Wisconsin-Madison (UW-Madison),…
April 9, 2024
West Chester University (WCU) participated in the 2023 cohort of the Collaboration Success Program (CSP) to explore identity and access management (IAM) solutions. Unified and Modern IAM One of the university’s primary goals was to shift towards a unified identity system. To accomplish this goal, WCU needed to integrate three ERP systems, maintain support for…
April 1, 2024
By Albert Wu, InCommon Federation Manager I am pleased to announce an InCommon Federation community consultation of the Deployment Guidance for REFEDS Access Entity Categories. This consultation is open through April 30, 2024 at 5 p.m. PDT. (You’ll need to sign into the Internet2 wiki to post your feedback, and we hope you will.) Facilitating…
March 25, 2024
By Saira Hasnain – Associate Vice President & Deputy CIO, University of Florida FROM THE DESK OF THE eAC Note from the eAC Chair: This article is the first of a series from members of the eduroam-US Advisory Committee (eAC). The eAC discusses a wide range of topics within the wireless and mobility space, and…
March 22, 2024
Last month’s release of the InCommon Futures2 Report, “Promoting Digital Collaboration,” marked an especially exciting and important time for IAM in the research and education community. And we can’t stop talking about it! Kevin Morooney, vice president of Trust and Identity and NET+ Programs, Internet 2, and Marc Wallman, vice president, Information Technology Division, North…
March 18, 2024
Edited by Apryl Motley, CAE – Communications & Technical Writing Consultant, InCommon 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…
