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02
Nov.
2022

midPoint Academy

InCommon Academy Instructor Insights: Making the Most of midPoint

By Apryl Motley, CAE, Communications Lead, InCommon

With our next virtual midPoint Basics workshop coming up November 7–10, we asked instructor Ivan Noris,  an expert identity engineer at InCommon Catalyst Evolveum, to share his insights on its benefits. (Register for training with Ivan now.) What do you hope attendees will learn…

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24
Oct.
2022

CAMP Events

Getting the Band Back Together at TechEX

By Kevin Morooney, vice president of Trust and Identity and NET+, Internet2

As I’ve navigated the fall of 2022, I’m struck that it has an exciting familiarity to it. “Exciting” and “familiarity” don’t often go together, so I got to wondering why I was feeling excited about something that wasn’t new and shiny. After a bunch of long dog walks, I think I…

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19
Oct.
2022

Community

Our Valued Volunteers: Q&A with Keith Wessel, Principal Identity and Access Management Specialist – University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

 By Apryl Motley, CAE - InCommon Communications Lead

With this year’s Call for InCommon Advisory Committee Nominations in full swing, we are  highlighting some of our current and past volunteers from the community. (You can volunteer too! Submit your nomination by October 21.) Five years ago, Keith Wessel began serving on the…

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17
Oct.
2022

Advance CAMP Academy

TechEX22 CAMP 2022 Speaker Spotlight: Q&A with Heather Flanagan

By Apryl Motley, Technical Writer & Communications Lead, Internet2 Trust and Identity/NET+ Service

The 2022 Internet2 Technology Exchange (TechEX), held in Denver from December 5–9,  truly has something for everyone in the research and education community, especially identity and access management (IAM) professionals.  (Check out the IAM track of sessions and…

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17
Oct.
2022

COmanage Academy

Configuring COmanage: 4 Concepts You Should Know

By Laura Paglione, Partner at Spherical Cow Group

Laura Paglione Your organization can leverage COmanage software as a central person registry, a guest management system, and/or a collaboration hub for scholarly collaborations. However, before you configure anything, there are four concepts you should bear in mind: People COmanage is primarily, but not exclusively, a registry for people. People…

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05
Oct.
2022

Community

Our Valued Volunteers: 5 Questions for Josh Drake

By Apryl Motley, CAE, Communications Lead, InCommon

With this year’s Call for InCommon Advisory Committee Nominations currently underway, we are highlighting some of our current and past volunteers from the community. (You can volunteer too! Submit your nomination by October 21.) Josh Drake was a member of the Community Architecture Committee for Trust and Identity…

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03
Oct.
2022

Cloud

Kion Checks the Top Boxes

By Bob Flynn - Internet2 Program Manager, Cloud Infrastructure & Platform Services

Internet2 Releases New NET+ Service The Internet2 NET+ team is excited to announce the release of NET+ Kion, one of the leading cloud enablement solution providers. In response to calls from the research and education community for account automation, cost management, and security monitoring tools for cloud enablement across AWS,…

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21
Sep.
2022

Shibboleth Academy

InCommon Academy Instructor Insights: Go with Shibboleth for Synergy and Streamlining

By Apryl Motley, CAE, Communications Lead, InCommon

With our next virtual Shibboleth workshop coming up October 3–7, we asked co-Instructors Paul Caskey,  an IAM architect at Internet2, and Paul Riddle, an identity architect at the University of Maryland Baltimore County (UMBC), to share their insights on its benefits. How does understanding more about Shibboleth and implementing…

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19
Sep.
2022

Catalyst

Catalyst to Catalyst (September 2022): 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, earlier this year 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…

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