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Dec.
2025
By Kyle Lewis, Chair, Sirtfi Exercise Planning Working Group
Estimated reading time: 5 minutes In fall 2025, a grad student, Caroline Sweet, was recruited by the hacktivist group known as Stop All Robots. She helped them compromise the user registration process for a medical research team comparing the results of medical…
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Sep.
2025
Estimated reading time: 2 minutes By Albert Wu, InCommon Federation Manager InCommon Federation is hosting a new tutorial at the 2025 Internet2 Technology Exchange (in Denver, Colo., Dec. 8-12, 2025) – Federation Day – and you’re invited. …
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Aug.
2025
Estimated reading time: 2 minutes By Albert Wu, InCommon Federation Manager We are pleased to announce an InCommon Federation community consultation for the new guidance document, Deploying Subject Identifiers for InCommon Federation Participants. This consultation is open through…
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Apr.
2025
By Kyle Lewis, InCommon Assured Access Working Group chair
Estimated reading time: 2 minutes I am pleased to announce an InCommon Federation community consultation for the Assured Access Working Group’s guidance document: Recommendations for REFEDS Assurance Framework 2.0 Implementation for InCommon Identity Providers. This consultation is open…
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Feb.
2025
Estimated reading time: 2 minutes By Albert Wu, InCommon Federation Manager, Internet2 Trust & Identity I am pleased to announce an InCommon Federation community consultation of the 2024 InCommon Federation Proxies Working Group Report. This consultation is…
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Jan.
2025
Estimated reading time: 2 minutes The InCommon Community and Trust Assurance Board (CTAB) seeks volunteers to participate in the Sirtfi Exercise Planning Working Group (SEPWG) to help design and run the annual distributed…
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Dec.
2024
Estimated reading time: 5 minutes Six New Jersey higher education institutions are taking important steps to enhance their identity and access management (IAM) readiness with a focus on enabling effective collaboration and resource sharing through Internet2’s InCommon Federation. Last month InCommon…
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Dec.
2024
Estimated reading time: 2 minutes By Ann West, Executive Director, InCommon and AVP, Trust & Identity, Internet2 2024 has been a pivotal year for InCommon, fueled by our Futures2 Strategy pushing new explorations and investments across the community. In reviewing our…
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Nov.
2024
By Ann West, AVP for trust and identity, Internet2 and Steve Zoppi, AVP, Services Integration and Architecture, Internet2 Estimated reading time: 4 minutes In October 2024, the National Science Foundation (NSF) announced new multi-factor authentication (MFA) requirements for Research.gov access. Those of…
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Oct.
2024
By Albert Wu, InCommon Federation Manager, Internet2 Trust & Identity Estimated reading time: 3 minutes In the spring, the InCommon Federation announced a series of long-awaited enhancements to Federation services. We are nearing the finish line for two of the projects,…
