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Nov.
2021
By Chris Hyzer, University of Pennsylvania and Chair of the Grouper Project
We’re excited to share recent developments in the Grouper project. Grouper is an enterprise group and access management system that simplifies access management by letting you use the same group or role in many places in your organization. Grouper is part of the InCommon Trusted Access Platform, an identity…
12
Nov.
2021
By Netta Caligari, InCommon Community Success Manager
Engagement is the foundation of how we operate at InCommon. We appreciate the variety of ways our community comes together to develop best practices; guide the adoption of new technologies, and identify challenges to help resolve common issues in research and education. One of the main avenues for driving this…
16
Nov.
2021
By David St. Pierre Bantz, University of Alaska / InCommon Community Trust & Assurance Board, and Albert Wu, InCommon Federation Service Manager
InCommon Participants established the InCommon Baseline Expectations for Trust in Federation in 2018 as a means to increase trust and interoperability among InCommon federation participants and to define what they expect of each other, and of InCommon Operations. The second iteration of Baseline Expectations (Baseline Expectations 2, or BE2) was…
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Nov.
2021
By Tom Barton, Internet2 Research Engagement
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 requirements for federated logins: Release Necessary User Information – Release the user…
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Nov.
2021
By Laura Paglione, Partner at Spherical Cow Group
Laura Paglione is a partner at Spherical Cow Group (SCG), the open-source lead of the COmanage project, and an InCommon Catalyst. Laura leads COmanage workshops through the InCommon Academy’s software training and is also a member of the InCommon Federation Steering Committee.
08
Nov.
2021
By Erin Murtha, Director of the InCommon Academy
midPoint, the newest addition to the InCommon Trusted Access Platform, is a general-purpose identity management and governance system that can synchronize and reconcile among multiple systems of record and sources of identity. It can also provision and de-provision user accounts and groups into services. Register for midPoint BasicsCalling…
04
Nov.
2021
By Amber Rasche, Senior Communications Specialist
Scott Woods is the CEO of West Arete, a custom software development company for the higher education community, InCommon Catalyst, and sponsor of the 2021 CAMP Week held October 4-8. In this Q&A, Scott shares about his team’s effort to…
03
Nov.
2021
The InCommon Community Trust and Assurance Board (CTAB) invites the community to join its next Office Hours. The next Baseline Expectations 2 (BE2) Office Hour will be on Tuesday November 23, 2021 at 1 p.m. ET / Noon CT / 11 a.m. MT/ 10 a.m. PT. CTAB members and subject matter…
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Nov.
2021
The InCommon Community Trust and Assurance Board (CTAB) invites the community to join its next Office Hours. The next Baseline Expectations 2 (BE2) Office Hour will be on Tuesday October 26, 2021 at 1 p.m. ET / Noon CT / 11 a.m. MT/ 10 a.m. PT. CTAB members and subject matter…
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Sep.
2021
By Amber Rasche
Majeed Abu-Qulbain, Senior Enterprise Architect at Illinois State University Majeed Abu-Qulbain, Senior Enterprise Architect at Illinois State University, is an alumnus of the InCommon Academy’s Collaboration Success Program and Trusted Access Platform training. In this Q&A, Majeed discusses how InCommon Academy is supporting his team’s…
