Information Access Management

This podcast features an interview with George B. Adams III, Associate Director for Programs, Network for Computational Nanotechnology at Purdue University. Our interview was recorded at the CNI 2008 Spring Task Force Meeting in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

nanoHUB provides users with “fingertip access” to over 70 simulation tools for research and education. Users not only launch jobs that are executed on the state-of-the-art computational facilities of Open Science Grid and TeraGrid, but also interactively visualize and analyze the results--all via an ordinary Web browser. nanoHUB middleware hides the complexity of Grid computing, handling authentication, authorization, file transfer, and visualization, and letting the researcher focus on research. This approach also helps educators bring these tools to the classroom, letting them bypass the difficulties of Grid computing and focus instead on learning science and engineering.

The EDUCAUSE Live! Spotlight on Identity Management series is a new, six-month series that will feature one or two speakers from a campus that have analyzed or solved a problem in a way that many people will find instructive.

In this free seminar on March 14, Penn State’s Identity and Access Management Initiative, presenters Renee Shuey, Senior Systems Engineer and Team Leader, ITS Emerging Technologies Group, and Joel L. Weidner, Director of Information Systems, Auxiliary & Business Services, Pennsylvania State University, will discuss how the demands for identity and access management are paralleling the explosive growth in online interactions, and how imperative it is that existing business systems, infrastructure, planning, and technologies evolve to keep pace with the access needs of the future.

This 45-minute podcast recorded during the EDUCAUSE 2007 Annual Conference features Ian Taylor, Manager of Security Middleware, University of Washington in a session titled "The Access Management Puzzle: Putting the Pieces Together."

The session abstract:

The University of Washington faces a set of identity and access management challenges shared by many universities. The problems are numerous and familiar. To overcome these challenges, UW has implemented some novel solutions in pursuit of a vision of fully integrated authorization and identity management across the enterprise.

Proceedings are now online for the November CAMP workshop on building a distributed access management infrastructure.

• Integration Technologies for Signet and Grouper
  Thomas J. Barton and Lynn T. McRae

• Building on Distributed Access Management
  Thomas J. Barton, Kenneth J. Klingenstein, Stephen Langella, and Lynn T. McRae

• Maximizing Identity Management
  Keith D. Hazelton

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