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Jan
2022
By Maya Gurarie, Digital Experience Specialist
The Grouper School was so popular last year that we will offer three sessions in 2022. Grouper is the enterprise group and access management system that is part of the InCommon Trusted Access Platform. With Grouper, you can share roles and audit who has access to resources. The upcoming training…
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Dec
2021
Kevin Morooney and Ann West InCommon is a community. It’s infrastructure. It’s software. It’s training. And it’s so much more. Celebrating Internet2’s 25th anniversary this year also calls for a reflection on the origin story and evolution of InCommon – a key component of Internet2 that emerged from the need…
03
Dec
2021
By Amber Rasche, Senior Communications Specialist
Just six months have passed since the InCommon Catalyst community partner program launched in June 2021. And evidence of the Catalysts’ deep, ongoing commitment to the InCommon community is already stacking up. Catalysts are industry leaders and Internet2 members that actively contribute to identity and access…
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Nov
2021
By Netta Caligari, InCommon Community Success Manager
Ready for an IAM movie night? InCommon + GÉANT’s 2021 CAMP Week is all wrapped up, but the party’s still going! To allow the broader community access to some of the incredibly insightful content from our virtual conference, we happily announce the release of three stellar presentations, ready to view…
15
Nov
2021
By Chris Hyzer, University of Pennsylvania and Chair of the Grouper Project
We’re excited to share recent developments in the Grouper project. Grouper is an enterprise group and access management system that simplifies access management by letting you use the same group or role in many places in your organization. Grouper is part of the…
12
Nov
2021
By Netta Caligari, InCommon Community Success Manager
Engagement 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 challenges to help resolve common issues in research and education. One of the main avenues for driving this…
12
Nov
2021
By David St. Pierre Bantz, University of Alaska / InCommon Community Trust & Assurance Board, and Albert Wu, InCommon Federation Service Manager
InCommon Participants established the InCommon Baseline Expectations for Trust in Federation in 2018 as a means to increase trust and interoperability among InCommon federation participants and to define what they expect of each other, and of InCommon Operations. The second iteration of Baseline Expectations (Baseline Expectations 2, or BE2) was…
12
Nov
2021
By Tom Barton, Internet2 Research Engagement
In the Fall of 2020, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) announced that they were making changes to increase the security of many of their services to better protect the sensitive data shared with researchers. Among those are requirements for federated logins: Release Necessary User Information – Release the user…
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Nov
2021
By Laura Paglione, Partner at Spherical Cow Group
Laura Paglione is a partner at Spherical Cow Group (SCG), the open-source lead of the COmanage project, and an InCommon Catalyst. Laura leads COmanage workshops through the InCommon Academy’s software training and is also…
08
Nov
2021
By Erin Murtha, Director of the InCommon Academy
midPoint, the newest addition to the InCommon Trusted Access Platform, is a general-purpose identity management and governance system that can synchronize and reconcile among multiple systems of record and sources of identity. It can also provision and de-provision user accounts and groups…
