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May.
2023
By Kyle Lewis, Co-Chair, Sirtfi Exercise Planning Working Group
How can we help your team enhance its knowledge and use of the Sirtfi framework, so you’re prepared to cooperate if and when a cybersecurity incident spans multiple organizations in the research and education community? That’s the main question on our minds as the members of…
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Feb.
2023
By Albert Wu, InCommon Federation Service Manager
With 2022 behind us, the InCommon Baseline Expectations for Trust in Federation program reached its final milestone in transitioning InCommon to the second iteration of Baseline Expectations (BE2). Since InCommon officially adopted BE2 in December 2021, the Community Trust and Assurance Board (CTAB) and InCommon Federation Operations have…
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Dec.
2022
By Kyle Lewis, Chair, Sirtfi Exercise Planning Working Group Kyle Lewis On November 14–18, 2022, ten participating organizations from the InCommon Federation came together to practice cybersecurity incident response cooperation using the REFEDS Sirtfi framework. This event culminated ten months of work by InCommon’s Sirtfi…
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Dec.
2021
By Albert Wu, InCommon Federation Service Manager
InCommon participants established the InCommon Baseline Expectations for Trust in Federation in 2018 as a means to increase trust and interoperability among InCommon federation participants and to define what they expect of each other, and of InCommon Operations. The second iteration of Baseline Expectations (Baseline Expectations 2, or BE2) was…
12
Nov.
2021
By Tom Barton, Internet2 Research Engagement
In the Fall of 2020, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) announced that they were making changes to increase the security of many of their services to better protect the sensitive data shared with researchers. Among those are requirements for federated logins: Release Necessary User Information – Release the user…
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Nov.
2021
By David St. Pierre Bantz, University of Alaska / InCommon Community Trust & Assurance Board, and Albert Wu, InCommon Federation Service Manager
InCommon Participants established the InCommon Baseline Expectations for Trust in Federation in 2018 as a means to increase trust and interoperability among InCommon federation participants and to define what they expect of each other, and of InCommon Operations. The second iteration of Baseline Expectations (Baseline Expectations 2, or BE2) was…
03
Nov.
2021
The InCommon Community Trust and Assurance Board (CTAB) invites the community to join its next Office Hours. The next Baseline Expectations 2 (BE2) Office Hour will be on Tuesday November 23, 2021 at 1 p.m. ET / Noon CT / 11 a.m. MT/ 10 a.m. PT. CTAB members and subject matter…
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Oct.
2021
The InCommon Community Trust and Assurance Board (CTAB) invites the community to join its next Office Hours. The next Baseline Expectations 2 (BE2) Office Hour will be on Tuesday October 26, 2021 at 1 p.m. ET / Noon CT / 11 a.m. MT/ 10 a.m. PT. CTAB members and subject matter…
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Sep.
2021
The InCommon Community Trust and Assurance Board (CTAB) invites the community to join its next Office Hours. The next Baseline Expectations 2 (BE2) Office Hour will be on Tuesday September 28, 2021 at 1 p.m. ET / Noon CT / 11 a.m. MT/ 10 a.m. PT. CTAB members and subject matter…
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Aug.
2021
By David St. Pierre Bantz, University of Alaska, InCommon Community Trust & Assurance Board InCommon’s Baseline Expectations enhance your productivity and effectiveness by increasing trust and interoperability among InCommon federation participants. When you can trust that participants have accurate and complete metadata describing their service or identity provider, that they…
