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20
Mar.
2023

Diversity & Inclusion Community

IAM-HER: Supporting Women in the R&E Identity and Access Management Field

By John McCormack, Writer, InCommon

Editor’s Note: As part of our recognition of National Women’s History Month, we’re highlighting women in the identity and access management field. What better place to start than by featuring IAM-HER, the organization created expressly for that purpose? Also, keep an eye out for upcoming blog posts that we’re contributing…

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20
Mar.
2023

COmanage Academy

It’s Time You Met Your Match

By Apryl Motley, CAE, InCommon Communications Lead

New COmanage Match Workshop from InCommon Academy In the spirit of “by community for community,” InCommon Academy is pleased to host its inaugural, virtual COmanage Match Workshop on March 30 with support from the University of California, San Diego. UCSD invested its resources to help develop the training…

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09
Mar.
2023

Academy IAM Webinars

InCommon IAM Online Speaker Spotlight: Q&A with Kerri Lemoie

By Apryl Motley, CAE, InCommon Communications Lead

Kerri Lemoie and Niels van Dijk will be our featured presenters for “Self-Sovereign ID: The Future of Learner, Teacher, and Researcher Credentials in the Academic Identity Landscape” as part of IAM Online on Wednesday, March 15 at 1 p.m. ET with Nicole Roy, director of technology and strategy, InCommon,…

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08
Mar.
2023

Cloud

Top 3 Things to Know About CLASS Advanced, Built for Research IT by Research Professionals

By Amanda Tan, Internet2 CLASS Program Manager

The next cohort of the new CLASS Advanced program, Internet2’s advanced cloud training tailored for research IT, begins April 3, 2023. This two-week intensive learning experience empowers the research and higher education community to leverage cloud platforms for research workflows. Participants will learn how to effectively build and manage cloud…

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23
Feb.
2023

Community

The Best IAM Advice Ever: The 2022 Edition

Edited by Apryl Motley, CAE - InCommon Communications Lead, Internet2 Trust and Identity

Throughout 2022, we asked members of the InCommon community to share the best identity and access management (IAM) advice they had ever received and from whom. Without further ado, here are 10 pieces of the best IAM advice ever. One of my big takeaways has been how single sign-on (SSO)…

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21
Feb.
2023

Grouper Software

Major Improvements to the Grouper Provisioning Framework

By Chris Hyzer, University of Pennsylvania

It was great seeing many of you at the Internet2 Technology Exchange (TechEX) in Denver in December 2022. We love talking with our community about identity management, Grouper, and everything else too. Shout out to the team at the University of Michigan who presented a terrific TechEX session on…

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15
Feb.
2023

Academy IAM Webinars

InCommon IAM Online Speaker Spotlight: Q&A with University of Wisconsin–Madison IAM Team

By Apryl Motley, CAE, InCommon Communications Lead

Members of the identity and access management (IAM) team at the University of Wisconsin–Madison (UW–Madison) will be our featured presenters for “From Modernizing Our Use of Grouper to Provisioning with midPoint and Developing Standard Populations” as part of IAM Online on Wednesday, Feb. 15 at 1 p.m. ET…

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15
Feb.
2023

Community

18 New Members Join InCommon Steering and Advisory Committees in 2023

By Amber Rasche, Internet2 Senior Communications Specialist

Internet2 and InCommon are pleased to welcome 18 new members to the InCommon Steering Committee and InCommon Advisory Committees. By volunteering with these committees, community members contribute their insights, expertise, and talents within identity and access management (IAM) to advance the research and education (R&E) community. “InCommon’s steering and…

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09
Feb.
2023

Federation

Baseline Expectations 2 Implementation Reaches Important Milestone

By Albert Wu, InCommon Federation Service Manager

With 2022 behind us, the InCommon Baseline Expectations for Trust in Federation program reached its final milestone in transitioning InCommon to the second iteration of Baseline Expectations (BE2). Since InCommon officially adopted BE2 in December 2021, the Community Trust and Assurance Board (CTAB) and InCommon Federation Operations have…

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25
Jan.
2023

eduroam

More Schools, More Hotspots, More eduroam!

By Mike Zawacki - Interenet2 Program Manager

2022 eduroam Support Organization Status Report Highlights Growth At the end of every year, eduroam Support Organizations (eSOs) and Internet2 come together to develop an annual status report for the community. The report outlines the goals, challenges, successes, and lessons learned for the eSOs and Internet2. This annual exercise…

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