EDUCAUSE | Collaboration and Identity Management

May 19: Free Web Seminar on MCommunity to Improve IT Service Provisioning at the University of Michigan

cluckett — Mon, 12 May 2008 12:34:49 -0500

The EDUCAUSE Live! Spotlight on Identity Management series is a 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.

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. In this free seminar on May 19, MCommunity to Improve IT Service Provisioning at the University of Michigan, presenters Elizabeth A. Salley, product manager, and Luke Tracy, MCommunity co-technical lead, both from the University of Michigan, will discuss the issues and concepts surrounding the development of this new system.

The event is free, but registration is required and virtual seating is limited. Register now.

InCommon and the Committee on Institutional Cooperation

drupal — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 10:35:40 -0500

All dozen institutions comprising the CIC recently decided to join the InCommon Federation. This session will describe the motivation for and experience of joining InCommon. We'll also describe some of the use cases, including interactions with the federal government, interinstitutional access, and community source development projects.

Tune in Jan. 18 for New EDUCAUSE Live! Spotlight on Identity Management Series Seminar on Collaborative Identity Management

pkurkowski — Mon, 14 Jan 2008 17:48:47 -0600

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 the series' first seminar on January 18, A Case for Collaborative Identity Management in a Complex Decentralized Environment, presenters Andrea Beesing, Assistant Director, IT Security, and David S. Yeh, Assistant Vice President and University Registrar, Cornell University, will use the identity life cycle of the Cornell student as a use case and 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.

The event is free, but registration is required and virtual seating is limited. REGISTER NOW.

Collaborators at the Gates of Troy: Extending E-Services at USC

drupal — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 11:04:17 -0600

This session will describe and explain the policy, practices, and technologies implemented at the University of Southern California to allow the extension of electronic services for learning, research, and collaboration to guests and colleagues at other higher education institutions.

Campus Infrastructure and Collaborative Application Integration

drupal — Tue, 10 Jul 2007 11:24:28 -0500

Campuses will provide part of the solution to the problem of managing access to resources supporting scholarly collaborations. We'll look at campus identity management tools and practices that hold promise for collaboration support, including a demonstration of a prototype "collaboration platform" to help shift our discussion from the abstract to a concrete casting of some of its elements and operational processes.

June CAMP Workshops to Focus on Shibboleth and Secure Collaboration

cluckett — Wed, 04 Apr 2007 12:18:36 -0500

Two upcoming CAMP workshops (detailed below) in Portland, Oregon, CAMP Shibboleth: Flexible Web-Based Authentication and Authorization and Advanced CAMP: Scaling Secure Collaboration, will focus on middleware deployment.

CAMP Shibboleth: Flexible Web-Based Authentication and Authorization

(June 25–27)
Overview: This CAMP will offer concrete practice and real-world experience from institutions running Shibboleth in production for controlling access to both on- and off-campus services. Participants will learn the answers to questions such as:

What is Shibboleth and how does it work?
What is the business case for it and how can I sell it on my campus?
What is the migration path to support intercampus Web SSO in the future?
How much identity management infrastructure do I need?
How can I use Shibboleth to simplify my application deployment and maintenance?

Higher education IT managers, project managers, middleware architects, and systems analysts involved at a technical, management, or stakeholder level in supporting Web-based services will benefit most from this workshop. Register before May 29 for low, early-bird rates.

Advanced CAMP: Scaling Secure Collaboration

(June 28–29)
Overview: This exploratory CAMP will bring together experts from across the research and education community to identify, clarify, and coordinate next steps to support collaborative activities within and among organizations. The focus will be on identity and access management services, such as federated authentication and group/privilege management, and their integration with applications and application suites.

Central campus IT strategists, technology architects, and those in related leadership roles will benefit most from this workshop. Register before May 29 for low, early-bird rates.

Browse related EDUCAUSE resources on Middleware and Identity Management.

Building on Distributed Access Management

drupal — Mon, 20 Nov 2006 15:41:07 -0600

What is beyond or outside Stage 2 and 3? What is around the edges? Where is this architecture going? We will discuss possibilities and challenges for using these technologies in distributed or virtual organizations and identify needs not yet addressed, such as policy editing and standardized provisioning tools.

Federated Identity Management: Addressing the Risky Business

drupal — Tue, 18 Apr 2006 10:56:53 -0500

Accessing restricted resources held by a partner can be risky for both parties. This presentation will include a discussion of national and international federations, what the policy dimensions are for campuses, and how federations can be used as a basis for real-time security exchange.

The Future of Interboundary Collaboration

drupal — Tue, 14 Feb 2006 12:11:51 -0600

It all fits together: the campus authentication (and identity management) infrastructure is leveraged to share resources without divulging identity (if required) in a way that scales. So what's next? What if we successfully enable entirely new types of applications and relationships? How will this affect libraries, curriculums, and research projects? Will the boundaries between institutions blur? How will vendors play a role? Will we outsource our identity for someone else to manage because of liability and resource constraints? This session looks into the future and how our interboundary work might inform our institutions and change the nature of how we teach, research, and collaborate.