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Nov.
2019
By Chris Hyzer, University of Pennsylvania Grouper, the access management component of the InCommon Trusted Access Platform, is continuing to evolve to meet the community’s needs. For many years, Grouper has been providing group and access management solutions for a broad and enthusiastic user community. Recently the Grouper development…
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Oct.
2019
New InCommon Participants As of October 17, 2019, InCommon had 1,029 participants. Here are the new participants since the last update in August: Higher Education College of Eastern IdahoJohn Carroll UniversityLewis-Clark State CollegeMars Hill University Research Organization Children’s Hospital Los Angeles Sponsored Partners Axle InformaticsChildren’s National Health SystemConcur TechnologiesRisk and…
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Oct.
2019
By Ken Klingenstein, Identity EvangelistInternet2 The Original Vision of federated identity anticipated a thriving ecosystem where attributes, more than identities, were carefully exchanged between holders of those attributes and relying parties to provide appropriate services. Privacy would be preserved; scalable access control would be enabled; users would be empowered. What…
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Oct.
2019
By Heather Flanagan (Note: This is the third in a series of blog posts highlighting key sessions at this year’s Technology Exchange (TechEx), December 9-13, 2019, in New Orleans). In September 2019, REFEDS (an association of national research and education federations, including InCommon), with the support of NORDUnet and…
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Oct.
2019
Passwordless Authentication with Shibboleth and WebAuthn By Mary McKee and Shilen Patel (both of Duke University) (Note: This is the second in a series of blog posts highlighting key sessions at this year’s Technology Exchange (TechEx), December 9-13, 2019, in New Orleans). Multi-factor doesn’t have to mean multi-step. Duke Unlock lets…
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Oct.
2019
InCommon needs enthusiastic volunteers to bring their unique expertise to our community groups. Serving on InCommon committees is an excellent way to serve the community, broaden your professional network, and develop and hone leadership skills. We invite you to nominate people for membership, including self-nomination. Nominations close on October 15,…
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Sep.
2019
By Ken Klingenstein (Note: This is the first in a series of blog posts highlighting key sessions at this year’s Technology Exchange (TechEx), December 9-13, 2019, in New Orleans). In the last few years, proxies and portals have become a common way for communities to integrate access to their…
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Sep.
2019
InCommon Collaboration Success Program WebinarThursday, September 12, 20192 pm ET / 1 pm CT / Noon MT / 11 am PT (30 minutes) https://internet2.zoom.us/j/272006133 InCommon will offer the second Collaboration Success Program starting later this year, an opportunity for you to solve an IAM problem with training, support from…
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Sep.
2019
By David Bantz, University of Alaska and vice-chair of CTAB In 2017, the InCommon Community Trust and Assurance Board (CTAB) began leading the InCommon community to develop and transition to Baseline Expectations for Trust in Federation. The Baseline Expectations define a set of common practices aimed to increase…
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Aug.
2019
Looking for reasons to consider the production release candidate of the InCommon metadata query service (MDQ)? Here’s an in-use memory graph at the moment a university switched to using MDQ in its production identity provider servers. In addition, a service provider reports: “We were able to switch to using…
