InCommon: Security, Privacy and Trust for the Research and Education Community

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InCommon, operated by Internet2, provides a secure and privacy-preserving trust fabric for research and higher education, and their partners, in the United States. InCommon operates an identity management federation, a related assurance program, and offers certificate and multifactor authentication services.

IAM Online June 12 - Provisioning and Integration: New Models and Practices

Join us June 12 at 3 pm ET for the next IAM Online: Provisioning and Integration: New Models and Practices. Provisioning tasks make up a huge but largely hidden portion of IT costs for all of us. The Provisioning and Integration Team in the CIFER initiative (http://ciferproject.org) has taken up the challenge of modernizing our approaches and our toolkits for solving these perennial infrastructure problems. You will hear about conceptual models that promise to bring some order to the chaos and ad-hocracy.

Save the Date: Identity Week Scheduled for November 11-15

We're combining the top identity meetings and special programming into one event, Identity Week, November 11-15, 2013, in San Jose, California. ACAMP, CAMP, and REFEDS will all take place that week, providing a first-rate conference and unconference experience for those new to identity management, thought-leaders in the field, and all experience levels in between.

U.S. Government Approves Streamlined Assurance Practices

Assurance logo InCommon proudly announces new Assurance Program specification documents that offer significant community benefits, including a much easier path toward Bronze certification, and approval by the U.S. government. The changes come after extensive work by the research and higher education community. See the full announcement, and consider adopting Bronze!

New Pricing for Duo Security Two-Factor Authentication

Duo Security has a new pricing model for its phone-based two-factor authentication program offered through InCommon. InCommon participants can take advantage of the $5/user/year pricing with a minimum of just 500 individuals. See the details.

InCommon Federation Technical Guide

InCommon Federation logo The InCommon Federation Technical Guide provides a convenient way to locate the details and documentation for implementing federated identity management with InCommon. The guide includes three sections: Precursors to Technical Implementation, Technical Implementation, and Advanced Topics.

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Featured Affiliates

Quest Software, now a part of Dell, offers Quest One Identity Solutions empower higher education organizations to expand learning options and collaboration, while providing the scalability and flexibility to proactively manage ever-changing user communities, regulations and diverse technology platforms.

VivánTech provides strategic consulting, software-related services, and project management to the higher education community. Its unique offerings include enterprise software strategy, secure mobile applications for enterprise systems, workflow automation solutions with graphical front-ends, cloud solutions and others.

InCommon Affiliates The InCommon Affiliate Program connects higher education institutions with commercial or non-profit organizations that provide software, content, guidance, support, and implementation and integration services related to participating in the federation.

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