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OpenID Federation 30-Day Community Consultation is Now Open
Help Shape the Future of The InCommon Federation The Profiling OpenID Federation for Research and Education (PORE) working group spent two years investigating the future of…
InCommon Community
Five Questions To Help Shape Your Institution’s Identity Proofing Strategy
Asked and Answered in InCommon’s First Identity Proofing Accelerator From February to April 2026, faces sat in individual boxes, each interested in one of research and…
InCommon Community
Three Identity Proofing Insights Worth Everyone’s Attention
By Kenneth Lewis, Communications Specialist Of the many conversations being held about security on campus, one consistently rings the alarm and cannot be ignored. Identity proofing…
InCommon Community
Beyond the Login: Why Identity Proofing Matters More Than Ever in Higher Education
If your institution can’t confidently verify who’s accessing its systems, everything else you secure is subject to breach. That’s the challenge more campuses are facing now….
InCommon Community
22 Leaders Join InCommon Steering and Advisory Committees
InCommon has appointed 22 leaders from across the research and education community to join the InCommon Steering and Advisory Committees in 2026. These appointments strengthen the…
InCommon Community
Solving Research and Education’s Identity Proofing Puzzle Together: A Community in Conversation
On Oct, 22, 2025, InCommon hosted an Identity Proofing Thread Meetup to discuss the growing challenges of identity verification and fraud prevention across research and higher…
InCommon Community
InCommon Survey Seeks Campus Input on Identity Verification Needs
Are you wondering how higher ed institutions across the nation are managing identity verification and fraud prevention challenges? So are we. InCommon, powered by Internet2, has…
InCommon Community
InCommon Community Service Spotlight: 5 Questions for Derek Eiler, Principal Systems Engineer, Nevada System of Higher Education
With the Call for InCommon Advisory Committee Nominations currently underway, we are highlighting some of our current volunteers from the community. (You can volunteer too! Submit…
InCommon Community
IAM Online Speaker Spotlight: Beyond Authentication, When Secure Access Demands Identity Assurance
If your institution collaborates with federal agencies on research or other initiatives, you’re familiar with the balance required between robust security and practical implementation. After an…
InCommon Community
InCommon Hosts Fourth Annual Cybersecurity Cooperation Exercise This Fall
As part of its ongoing effort to increase cross-federation levels of trust in cybersecurity, InCommon is hosting its fourth annual Sirtfi cybersecurity cooperation exercise this fall….
InCommon Community
Sketching Success: A Peek at InCommon’s IAM Sketch for Architecture Planning
It’s not that higher education institutions lack IAM tools —it’s that many institutions still lack a clear, shared framework to see how their systems connect, where…
InCommon Community
IAM Foundations: Career Insights from UT Austin’s Marta Lang
IAM Online: May 2025 Speaker Spotlight Have you ever tried to explain to someone outside research and higher education (R&E) why managing digital identities on campus…