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This course provides hands-on experience applying concepts from Grouper Basics, Advanced Group Management & Access Control, Managing Grouper Privileges, and Grouper Administration & System Operations in real-world situations. 

You will learn to integrate Grouper with applications, set up application structures, and implement access policies. The course also covers how to edit policies and manage access as ticket-based adjustments arise, ensuring participants can effectively provision data and adapt to changing requirements.

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Date: Dec. 1
Time: 1-2 p.m. ET
Cost: Free

The Internet2 CLASS program is facilitating a comprehensive webinar and workshop series to help your institution navigate secure research and compliance in the cloud.

Phase 3: Technical Implementation — The Current State of IAM for Research Collaboration

This virtual learning panel convenes the CILogon team at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) and Internet2 Trust and Identity Services for a look at where research identity and access management stands today. 

Internet2 will introduce the new OpenID Connect (OIDC) service it is building for the research and education community. CILogon will cover COmanage Registry and the federated access use cases it supports for research projects and virtual organizations. Speakers will also discuss how the two efforts fit together and where IAM for secure research is headed next.

Speakers:

• Josh Drake, Lead Security Engineer, NCSA, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (CILogon)
• Robin Blair, Senior Research System Engineer, NCSA, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (CILogon)
• Nicole Roy, Senior Director of Infrastructure, Operations and Information Security, Internet2
• Rebekah Ahrens, Project Manager, Trust and Identity Services, Internet2

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Date: Dec. 8-11
Cost: $500 for InCommon participants; $625 for non-participants
Instructor: Grady Bailey, Senior IAM Architect at Internet2

Build a solid foundation of Identity and Access Management knowledge with Identity Foundations training. This four-day workshop series provides an overview of Identity, designed specifically for IT professionals working in research and higher education.

Dive into the IAM Conceptual Model and explore its capabilities, functions, and components. Gain a fundamental understanding of enterprise registry, SSO and Federation, Groups and Access policy, and provisioning through a combination of live instruction and hands-on exercises with Sketch.

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Date: Dec. 15
Time: 1-2 p.m. ET
Cost: Free

The Internet2 CLASS program is facilitating a comprehensive webinar and workshop series to help your institution navigate secure research and compliance in the cloud.

Speakers:

• Carolyn Ellis, Director, Research Cybersecurity and Compliance, Arizona State University / RRCoP
• Jeffrey Weekley, Director, Research IT, University of California, Santa Cruz
• Cyd Burrows-Schilling, Director, Research IT Services, University of California, San Diego, CaRCC RCsIG
• Josh Drake, Lead Security Engineer, Trusted CI / National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA), University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

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Dates: Jan. 11 – April 2
Time: Self-paced work, with weekly cohort meetings (instructor and cohort will set meeting time)
Cost: $250 for CICP subscribers; $400 for Internet2 members; $600 for non-members

Cohort members will build foundational cloud computing knowledge and cement it through hands-on labs to help prepare them for becoming a certified AWS Solutions Architect Associate. 

This course is an ideal pathway to increase your expertise in architecting and managing your institution’s cloud infrastructure.

Instructor

• Chris Kuehn, Cloud Data Architect, Northwestern University, former Cloud Architect at the University of Illinois, with 20 years experience in higher ed IT

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Date: Jan. 19
Time: 12-2 p.m. ET
Cost: Free

How do you get from the research and education backbone to the cloud securely? This two-hour technical webinar charts the end-to-end path.

Internet2’s Robert Sears, who directs the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) N-Wave network, opens with what’s possible on the Internet2 backbone. Scott Taylor of Internet2 then explains how Internet2 connects to the major cloud providers and where its security responsibility ends.

Additionally, architects from Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud, and Microsoft Azure each cover connectivity options, traffic inspection, and east-west workload segmentation. 

Speakers:

• Robert Sears, Associate Vice President for Network Services at Internet2; Director of N-Wave
• Scott Taylor, Network Platform Manager and Architect, Internet2
• Kevin Murakoshi, Principal Solutions Architect, Amazon Web Services
• Luke Coady, Cloud Platform Customer Engineer, Google
• Sven Aelterman, Principal Cloud Solution Architect, Cloud & AI Infrastructure, Microsoft

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Whether you’re facing NIH’s 2027 compliance deadline, combating financial aid fraud, or standardizing inconsistent help desk processes across campus, your institution needs robust identity proofing.

If you don’t know where to start, the Identity Proofing Accelerator is here to help. The Identity Proofing Accelerator is a collaborative learning program for higher education professionals charged with understanding and improving identity proofing at their institutions.  

Through facilitated sessions, sharing with peers, and hands-on implementation work, you’ll gain the knowledge and tools to create an actionable roadmap needed to build or strengthen identity proofing capabilities at your institution.

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Save the date for the  2027 Internet2 Global Summit (formerly Community Exchange) to be held April 5-8, 2027, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, US.

The event is a premier annual convening of research and higher education (R&E) leadership. Learn More

Look for more information soon on the 2027 Internet2 Technology Exchange to be held Dec. 6-10, 2027, in Boston, Mass.

Join us for the 2028 Global Summit to be held April 2-5, 2028, in Washington, DC.

More details will be available soon.

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