EDUCAUSE | Web Seminars Contributed by EDUCAUSE and Identity Management

Spotlight On Identity Management: Identity Management at USC: Collaboration, Governance, and Access

ckeller — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 10:30:48 -0500

Identity and access management (IAM) at USC has been a policy-driven, grassroots effort for the past five years. During that time collaborative committees with representatives from many academic and administrative units have enabled the accelerated growth of applications relying on identity data while governing the release of that data. With the backing of the university data stewards in the offices of the registrar, provost, and personnel services , policies have been implemented regarding the release of identifying sensitive information to both internal departments and external vendors. The speakers will discuss the composition of these committees, the governance policies that have been implemented, and some of the dozens of applications that have been enabled securely through this process.

Spotlight On Identity Management: Engagement and Partnerships: Identity Outreach at Indiana University

ckeller — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 09:03:11 -0500

Indiana University and Purdue University recently asked the Indiana General Assembly to create the Indiana Innovation Alliance. This purpose of the alliance is to expand research in the life sciences and also to improve public health.

In this session we will talk about identity management in the context of this announcement and how it relates to the values that are driving the mission of Indiana University today. Our primary focus will be the partnership between Indiana University and Clarian Health and the challenges faced by doctors, nurses, and medical students who constantly float across organizational boundaries.

Spotlight On Identity Management: How Today's Registrar Demands More from Identity Management Policy and Infrastructure

djacobs — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 16:03:24 -0500

Stanford University's registrar and IT strategist discuss their vision of the future of identity management in higher education. Tom Black and Bruce Vincent will give some progressive perspectives on how their roles complement each other in supporting not only admissions processes but a lifelong relationship between students and universities.

Spotlight On Identity Management: MCommunity to Improve IT Service Provisioning at the University of Michigan

djacobs — Mon, 19 May 2008 15:11:44 -0500

MCommunity is a new enterprise directory and identity management system under development at the University of Michigan, a large, decentralized institution. MCommunity will provide a central infrastructure that can be used not only for central IT service provisioning but also for service provisioning within units. Planning for and development of MCommunity is a collaborative effort across both U-M IT units and the many units that will use the new system.

MCommunity will allow the university to know who is and is not a member of the U-M community, enabling central university offices as well as departments, schools, colleges, and campuses to grant and remove access to online resources as needed and appropriate. It will provide identity management, roles management, data sharing and reconciliation, and directory services for U-M. MCommunity will bring together data from multiple institutional sources and will organize, present, and secure the data in a way that is particularly well suited to managing access to university resources.

Planning for this central resource for a decentralized institution began with an ITCommons group consisting of IT professionals from across the university who identified the need. A governance board of decision makers representing key units such as the registrar's office and human resources, some of the larger academic units, and others continues to provide guidance on related policy development.

Alpha testers from across the university are already testing the first visible part of MCommunity, the MCommunity Sponsor System, which will be released in June.

Spotlight On Identity Management: Penn State's Identity and Access Management Initiative

djacobs — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 14:25:22 -0500

With demands for identity and access management (IAM) paralleling the explosive growth in online interactions, it is imperative that existing business systems, infrastructure, planning, and technologies evolve to keep pace with the access needs of the future. Recognizing the importance of developing a comprehensive, forward-looking strategy to deal with this issue, the IAM initiative was formed by Kevin Morooney, vice provost for information technology, in April 2007. The group comprises 27 individuals who span many administrative areas at the university. The group is co-chaired by Renee Shuey, Information Technology Services (ITS) and Joel Weidner, Auxiliary and Business Services.

The group's primary charge was to create an IAM road map (or strategy) for Penn State. A secondary goal was to establish a community of people and organizations from across the university who understand each other's pressures, needs, and desires for developing an IAM infrastructure that will support and enhance academic, research, business, and collaborative processes.

Spotlight On Identity Management: The Challenges of Creating an Identity Management Infrastructure for the University of California

ckeller — Tue, 05 Feb 2008 10:10:28 -0600

Using the University employee self-service application as an example, we will discuss the organizational, political, and operational challenges that are being faced in the creation of UCTrust, the University of California's federated identity management infrastructure, including the evolving roles of application owners, identity providers, and audit.

Spotlight On Identity Management: A Case for Collaborative Identity Management in a Complex Decentralized Environment

ckeller — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 17:27:19 -0600

Using the identity life cycle of the Cornell student as a use case, we will discuss the value of approaching identity management as a collective responsibility. The business and IT sides of the house must partner to meet rising expectations for streamlined access to information in a world where services are distributed not only across multiple campus units but also across multiple institutions.

Overview of U.S. Federal Government Identity Management Initiatives

drupal — Mon, 02 Oct 2006 15:09:54 -0500

Peter Alterman will present an overview of the federal government's electronic identity management initiatives, focusing on eGovernment and eCommerce. He will touch on the government's electronic security initiatives as they interact with the eGov services efforts and suggest how these two threads will impact identity management for colleges and universities in the near future.

Governance in Identity Management Federations

drupal — Fri, 14 Jul 2006 09:06:39 -0500

This presentation will trace the development of the University of Texas federation, as well as the general process of creating a federation and the trade-offs that must be made. It will also cover the elements necessary for a functional federation.

PKI Implementation at the University of Wisconsin-Madison

drupal — Thu, 01 Jun 2006 12:53:55 -0500

This session provides a practical example of how the University of Wisconsin–Madison researched various PKI system models and deployed a managed solution to issue digital certificates to encrypt and digitally sign e-mail and other sensitive information, and authenticate online identities.