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Most academic and research success stories involve a considerable amount of collaboration. COmanage tools help you streamline and manage the digital lifecycle and identity data management of your collaborating population, so your staff can concentrate on getting things done. COmanage tools are a flexible component of the InCommon Trusted Access Platform architecture that can be…
Shibboleth is the linchpin that securely authenticates identities within the InCommon Federation. It is a single sign-on (SSO) solution that allows management to make informed authorization decisions in a privacy-preserving manner. Shibboleth is used in the InCommon Trusted Access Platform architecture to support federated and campus single-sign-on services to local and cloud-hosted applications. Shibboleth is…
July 11, 2023
By Apryl Motley – Technical Writer & Communications Lead, Internet2 Trust and Identity/NET+ Service Kyle Lewis, vice president of cybersecurity strategy for InCommon Catalyst RDCT, will be our featured speaker for “How to Sirtfi – Going Beyond the Federation Security Checkbox” as part of IAM Online on Wednesday, July 19 at 1 p.m. ET with…
June 29, 2023
By John McCormack, InCommon Writer The Vera C. Rubin Observatory is an astronomical facility on top of Cerro Pachón, a mountain in Northern Chile. The Rubin Observatory will conduct a ten-year survey of the Southern Hemisphere sky (referred to as the Legacy Survey of Space and Time) with the goal of answering some of scientists’…
June 13, 2023
By John McCormack, Writer, InCommon “Gathering Requirements & Implementing IAM Initiatives.” Addressing this challenge is, perhaps, bigger than it looks, according to Ian Bruckner, project manager and portfolio coordinator, Office of Digital Transformation and Process Improvement, Illinois State University; Tommy Doan, IAM lead, Office of Information Technology, Southern Methodist University; and Mandi Witkovski, director of…
June 6, 2023
Ben Rappleyea, manager of the Office of Identity and Access Management at Illinois State University, will be our featured speaker for “InCommon IAM 101” as part of IAM Online on Wednesday, June 14 at 1 p.m. ET with Marta K. Lang, senior IT manager, Identity & Access Management, The University of Texas at Austin, serving…
June 5, 2023
Meet Warren Anderson, IAM Ligo lead at the California Institute of Technology. During his 25 years at Caltech, Warren has learned a thing or two about federated identity. He’ll be one of three speakers for the session “Federation – What it Is and Why it Matters” at InCommon BaseCAMP 2023. We asked Warren to weigh…
May 22, 2023
Grady Bailey (left) and Jeremiah Haywood (right) Check out the peer-developed program for InCommon BaseCAMP 2023, and register now. Grady Bailey, senior software engineer and team lead, University of Texas at Austin (UT), and Jeremiah Haywood, lead identity and access management administrator, Illinois State University (ISU), both want members of the research and higher education…
May 18, 2023
How can we help your team enhance its knowledge and use of the Sirtfi framework, so you’re prepared to cooperate if and when a cybersecurity incident spans multiple organizations in the research and education community? That’s the main question on our minds as the members of Sirtfi Exercise Planning Working Group (SEPWG) begin to plan…
May 15, 2023
Want to learn about where InCommon is headed – and also chime in with your opinions about its future direction? You will have a chance to do both on May 17 at 1 p.m. ET during InCommon’s May IAM Online webinar, “InCommon’s Future: Get In On the Discussion.” During the webinar, Marc Wallman (pictured right),…
