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Jan.
2023
By Apryl Motley, InCommon Communications Lead
Tim Hansen When members of the InCommon community achieve their goals, we achieve ours. We love hearing how our training and other resources help research and education institutions overcome obstacles and turn them into opportunities. Recently, we heard from a past attendee of InCommon Academy’s Shibboleth training. He wrote…
06
Jan.
2023
By Jean Chorazyczewski, InCommon Academy Director
Jean Chorazyczewski, InCommon Academy Director According to a recent Statista Global Consumer Survey, the most common New Year’s resolutions for 2023 among adults (18 – 89 years old) are to exercise more (52%), eat healthier (50%), and lose weight (40%). In other words – living healthier by getting in better…
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Dec.
2022
By Kevin Morooney, vice president of Trust and Identity and NET+, Internet2
As I sit down to write this, even after being home for a week, I find myself still in TechEX recuperation mode. I had all of the best intentions for the plane ride home from Denver, when thoughts are fresh, to write down all of the inspirations and thoughts I…
14
Dec.
2022
By Nicole Roy, InCommon director of Technology and Strategy
Editor’s Note: The Internet Identity Workshop was held Nov. 15–17 at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, Calif. Nicole Roy (center) is pictured here with colleagues Paul Caskey (right) and Debbie Bucci (left). The Identity and Access Management landscape is rapidly evolving with the adoption of…
14
Dec.
2022
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 introduced a quarterly Q&A column, Catalyst to Catalyst, that we feature in our e-newsletter InCommon News. Think of Catalyst to Catalyst as a quarterly, virtual advice…
09
Dec.
2022
By Nick Lewis, - Internet2 Program Manager
I’m not sure how many of you remember 2020, but most of it is a blur for me. In 2019, the NET+ Duo Service Advisory Board decided to conduct an MFA Community Survey to better understand how their peers used MFA and then build on the results to drive additional…
09
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…
02
Dec.
2022
By Apryl Motley, Technical Writer & Communications Lead, Internet2 Trust and Identity/NET+ Service
Just as the name implies, the InCommon Catalyst Program, now completing its second year, was launched to bring added energy and expertise to the community’s identity and access management (IAM) efforts. Nine industry providers currently participate in the program: The Catalysts’ continued commitment to the InCommon community shines through…
01
Dec.
2022
By Keith Wessel, Principal Identity and Access Management Specialist, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Keith Wessel Provisioning is hard. Provisioning well is even harder. There are many ways an organization can provision identities, credentials, services, and more, but finding ways that scale, handle edge cases, and stand the test of time can be extremely challenging. Then there’s de-provisioning: the thing that we say we’ll…
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Nov.
2022
By Ann West, Associate Vice President for Trust and Identity, Internet2, and Executive Director, InCommon
Engagement with the community is the foundation of how we operate at InCommon. We appreciate the variety of ways our community comes together to develop best practices, guide the adoption of new technologies, and identify and resolve common challenges in research and education. InCommon’s Advisory Committees are essential to…
