InCommon Archives

09
Dec
2022

Cloud InCommon Multifactor

And the Survey Says: Implementation of MFA Now More Commonplace

By Nick Lewis

Estimated reading time: 3 minutes I’m not sure how many of you remember 2020, but most of it is a blur for me. In 2019, the NET+ Duo Service Advisory Board decided to conduct a multi-factor authentication (MFA) Community Survey to better understand…

09
Dec
2022

InCommon

Because Bad Things Happen: InCommon’s 2022 Cybersecurity Cooperation Exercise

Estimated reading time: 2 minutes By Kyle Lewis, Chair, Sirtfi Exercise Planning Working Group Kyle Lewis On November 14–18, 2022, ten participating organizations from the InCommon Federation came together to practice cybersecurity incident response cooperation using the REFEDS Sirtfi…

02
Dec
2022

InCommon

InCommon Catalysts Bring Energy and Expertise to Community Conversations

By Apryl Motley

Estimated reading time: 8 minutes Just as the name implies, the InCommon Catalyst Program, now completing its second year, was launched to bring added energy and expertise to the community’s identity and access management (IAM) efforts. Nine industry providers…

01
Dec
2022

InCommon Events

The Provisioning Best Practices Cookbook: Community Consultation Now Open

By Keith Wessel, Principal Identity and Access Management Specialist, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Estimated reading time: 2 minutes Keith Wessel Provisioning is hard. Provisioning well is even harder. There are many ways an organization can provision identities, credentials, services, and more, but finding ways that scale, handle edge cases, and stand the test of time can…

18
Nov
2022

InCommon

Brought to You by Community: InCommon Advisory Committee Nominations Under Review for 2023

By Ann West

Estimated reading time: 2 minutes Engagement with the community 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 and resolve common…

15
Nov
2022

InCommon

Get IAM Done. Better. Faster. Together

By Apryl Motley

Estimated reading time: 5 minutes 2022-23 InCommon Collaboration Success Program Cohort Currently Under Way Collaboration around access and identity lifecycle management continues. The 2022-23 Cohort of the InCommon Collaboration Success Program (CSP) kicked off in September. There are nine…

08
Nov
2022

InCommon

A Community Conversation about IAM in the Cloud

By Apryl Motley

Estimated reading time: 3 minutes InCommon’s Community Architecture Committee for Trust and Identity (CACTI) will host “Extending IAM to the Cloud: It’s Still Your Program” as part of IAM Online on Wednesday, Nov. 16 at 1 p.m. ET…

08
Nov
2022

InCommon

Getting Off Script with Grouper

By Jason Rappaport, DevOps Engineer, Princeton University

Estimated reading time: 5 minutes Note: Grouper is one of the software solutions that makes up InCommon’s Trusted Access Platform, the research and education solution for identity and access management (IAM). The InCommon Team appreciates…

07
Nov
2022

InCommon Events

TechEx22 CAMP Speaker Spotlight: 4 Questions for Gail List

By Apryl Motley

Estimated reading time: 2 minutes The identity and access management (IAM) track for the 2022 Internet2 Technology Exchange (TechEX), held in Denver from December 5–9, has real flavor. (Check out the IAM track of sessions and Register now.) For example,…

02
Nov
2022

InCommon

InCommon Academy Instructor Insights: Making the Most of midPoint

By Apryl Motley

Estimated reading time: 3 minutes With our next virtual midPoint Basics workshop coming up November 7–10, we asked instructor Ivan Noris, an expert identity engineer at InCommon Catalyst Evolveum, to share his insights on its benefits.

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