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29
Mar.
2023

Diversity & Inclusion Community

IAM-HER Profile: Heather Flanagan, Principal, Spherical Cow Consulting

By Heather Berry, Writer, InCommon

Editor’s note: For National Women’s History Month, we are recognizing the women of IAM-HER, a community of women working in identity and access management (IAM) in research and education. Many of the women interviewed were pioneers in the field and carved out new roles for themselves…

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23
Mar.
2023

Events

Paper Airplanes and TechEX23

By Kevin Morooney, Vice President of Trust and Identity and NET+, Internet2

The Call for Proposals for CAMP is open until April 7. Please consider submitting a proposal for a talk, tutorial, or working meeting!  I love music. Everything about it. Listening to it, making it (I’m infinitely better at listening than making – infinitely), listening and making…

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22
Mar.
2023

Academy midPoint

The Best Way to Get Your Hands On midPoint? Training from InCommon Academy

By Apryl Motley, CAE – Incommon Communications Lead

If you’re trying to determine how best to implement midPoint at your institution, look no further than the upcoming training available from InCommon Academy, April 25 – 28, 2023.  The InCommon Academy’s midPoint Basics Workshop offers a robust hands-on environment. In fact, recent attendees tell us it’s the…

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21
Mar.
2023

Catalyst

Catalyst to Catalyst (Spring): Ideas and Insights from InCommon Catalysts

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 are continuing their quarterly Q&A column, Catalyst to Catalyst, which we feature in our e-newsletter InCommon News.  Think of Catalyst to Catalyst as a quarterly, virtual advice…

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20
Mar.
2023

COmanage Academy

It’s Time You Met Your Match

By Apryl Motley, CAE, InCommon Communications Lead

New COmanage Match Workshop from InCommon Academy In the spirit of “by community for community,” InCommon Academy is pleased to host its inaugural, virtual COmanage Match Workshop on March 30 with support from the University of California, San Diego. UCSD invested its resources to help develop the training…

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20
Mar.
2023

Diversity & Inclusion Community

IAM-HER: Supporting Women in the R&E Identity and Access Management Field

By John McCormack, Writer, InCommon

Editor’s Note: As part of our recognition of National Women’s History Month, we’re highlighting women in the identity and access management field. What better place to start than by featuring IAM-HER, the organization created expressly for that purpose? Also, keep an eye out for upcoming blog posts that we’re contributing…

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09
Mar.
2023

Academy IAM Webinars

InCommon IAM Online Speaker Spotlight: Q&A with Kerri Lemoie

By Apryl Motley, CAE, InCommon Communications Lead

Kerri Lemoie and Niels van Dijk will be our featured presenters for “Self-Sovereign ID: The Future of Learner, Teacher, and Researcher Credentials in the Academic Identity Landscape” as part of IAM Online on Wednesday, March 15 at 1 p.m. ET with Nicole Roy, director of technology and strategy, InCommon,…

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08
Mar.
2023

Cloud

Top 3 Things to Know About CLASS Advanced, Built for Research IT by Research Professionals

By Amanda Tan, Internet2 CLASS Program Manager

The next cohort of the new CLASS Advanced program, Internet2’s advanced cloud training tailored for research IT, begins April 3, 2023. This two-week intensive learning experience empowers the research and higher education community to leverage cloud platforms for research workflows. Participants will learn how to effectively build and manage cloud…

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23
Feb.
2023

Community

The Best IAM Advice Ever: The 2022 Edition

Edited by Apryl Motley, CAE - InCommon Communications Lead, Internet2 Trust and Identity

Throughout 2022, we asked members of the InCommon community to share the best identity and access management (IAM) advice they had ever received and from whom. Without further ado, here are 10 pieces of the best IAM advice ever. One of my big takeaways has been how single sign-on (SSO)…

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21
Feb.
2023

Grouper Software

Major Improvements to the Grouper Provisioning Framework

By Chris Hyzer, University of Pennsylvania

It was great seeing many of you at the Internet2 Technology Exchange (TechEX) in Denver in December 2022. We love talking with our community about identity management, Grouper, and everything else too. Shout out to the team at the University of Michigan who presented a terrific TechEX session on…

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