Identity Management and Network Security and Applications

This presentation discusses how California College of the Arts met the challenge of securing an evolving wireless network.

Enterprise authorization requires the management of group, role, and privilege information to ensure consistent access policy across applications. This session will compare and contrast how multiple institutions have implemented this infrastructure and offer an initial view into shared practices for access management.

Hear from one of Shibboleth's developers how USC is using Shibboleth to provide web-based services to federated guests and secure access to Google Apps. Additionally, this presentation will describe the Shibboleth test environment at USC that provides a quicker, easier, and more secure means for departments to integrate their applications.

Identity management is moving ahead rapidly. Shibboleth and InCommon are making great strides. Representatives from the banking and credit card industries are sitting around the table with federal and state government agencies in the Electronic Identity Assurance Expert Group (EIAEG) within the Liberty Alliance. The Credential Assessment Framework, developed by NIST, the National Institute of Standards and Technology, is being applied to an expanding federation of public and private institutions, including a number of campuses. The Identity Management working group will review these and other current activities of interest and chart a path for future action.

This is the final report for the 2007 NSF Cybersecurity Summit, held February 22 & 23rd, 2007, in Arlington, VA.

Researchers conducted this in-depth case study to complement the ECAR study, Safeguarding the Tower: IT Security in Higher Education 2006. The case study examines how four higher education institutions improved their information technology security programs since 2003—what they did, why they did it, how they did it, and which practices might be most effective for other institutions that wish to have similar results.

Presentation at EDUCAUSE 2006, October 9-12, 2006, Dallas, Texas. This presentation summarizes the findings of the EDUCAUSE Center for Applied Research 2006 study of information technology security in higher education.