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20
Feb.
2024

Community Federation

Happy Birthday to Us! InCommon Turns 20 in May

Estimated reading time: 4 minutes By Kevin Morooney, vice president of Trust and Identity and NET+, Internet2 For most of us, our perspective on birthdays changes over time and with life experiences. When I was a boy, say 10 years old or so,…

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08
Dec.
2023

Federation

Bringing Identity and Security Together: InCommon’s 2023 Cybersecurity Cooperation Exercise

By Kyle Lewis, Chair, Sirtfi Exercise Planning Working Group

Kyle Lewis On November 17–23, 2023, 16 university, federation, and government security teams came together to participate in InCommon’s second annual cybersecurity cooperation exercise and practice using the REFEDS Sirtfi framework in a scripted scenario. Sirtfi is part of InCommon’s baseline expectations. In addition to…

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15
Aug.
2023

Federation

Amendments to Federation Operating Practices and Policies Approved

COMMUNITY NOTICE On Monday, August 7, 2023, the InCommon Steering Committee approved the following amendments to the InCommon Federation Operating Practices and Policies (FOPP): The InCommon office address changed. The U.S. Department of Education’s methodology for categorizing its national and regional accrediting bodies changed, unifying…

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12
Nov.
2021

Federation

InCommon Members Support NIH Security Measures

By Tom Barton, Internet2 Research Engagement

Estimated reading time: 3 minutes In the Fall of 2020, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) announced that they were making changes to increase the security of many of their services to better protect the sensitive data shared with researchers. Among those are…

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