Internet2 held its 2022 Annual Meeting of the Members on Tuesday, Nov. 29, which featured remarks from members of the Internet2 executive leadership team.

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This training workshop focuses on learning and using core features of the InCommon Trusted Access Platform packaged Grouper software to implement the access control models described in the Grouper Deployment Guide.

The sessions include a mix of self-paced learning, lectures, hands-on training, and discussion. The modules start with Grouper basics and progress through new features, access governance, security model, and administration.

The International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage, and Analysis is the place to expand your knowledge and meet others in the HPC community. The program was held in Dallas, Texas on Nov. 13-18, and the exhibits were held on Nov. 14-17. During the event, Internet2 spoke with community members at a booth about advanced computational and data-intensive research. Learn more!

Members of Internet2’s Community Architecture Committee for Trust and Identity (CACTI) discussed some of the important, but sometimes less obvious considerations to address when adding or moving to cloud based IAM services. We looked at different approaches for utilizing the cloud in your IAM program, considered what capabilities they can offer, and what need to preserve locally, and discussed some of the community-supported resources that may help.

The Higher Education Cloud Forum consisted of attendee presentations on topics of broad interest, lightning sessions covering activities at attendee institutions, as well as research presentations showing the innovative use of cloud tools by faculty researchers working on the major cloud platforms.

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This demo featured Cloud Scorecard and Institutional Profiles and shared how the programs help us shape our combined cloud services resources platform.

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Part 3 of the webinar series with Nokia featured a discussion on next steps in network capabilities and solution.

midPoint is an open source identity management and identity governance solution developed by Evolveum. Core features include creating and managing groups, organizational units, and user accounts. midPoint is designed to help build a unified identity layer on top of your existing infrastructure. It can import accounts and entitlements from source systems, apply policies and other rules, and then provision the result to the whole infrastructure.

midPoint is used in the InCommon Trusted Access Platform architecture as the registry that creates and manages unique institutional identities and for provisioning/de-provisioning of users and their authorization to applications.

This Nov. 8, 2022 virtual course was designed for cloud computing beginners looking to facilitate or develop cloud research workflows. CLASS Essentials for Microsoft Azure was a virtual, four-hour, hands-on learning experience.

The Minority Serving – Cyberinfrastructure Consortium (MS-CC) and Internet2, in collaboration with the American Indian Higher Education Consortium (AIHEC), are organizing a series of cyberinfrastructure and cybersecurity workshops on the campuses of historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs) and tribal colleges and universities (TCUs). The National Science Foundation is funding the workshops as part of their recent Cyberinfrastructure Center of Excellence Demonstration Pilot award (NSF #2137123).

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This virtual course is designed for cloud computing beginners looking to facilitate or develop research workflows on the cloud.

This was a hands-on virtual workshop, providing a conceptual understanding of COmanage, an identity registry with flexible enrollment and lifecycle management capabilities that helps you meet your identity management objectives. The workshop provided the technical know-how to get this solution up and running.

This event was designed specifically for chief information officers, regional executives, and executive leadership of all Internet2 member organizations.

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University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill is on its way towards having passwordless logins. Seven months ago, the university launched a pilot to test its implementation of WebAuthn, known locally as Carolina Key. This new feature of the UNC web-based single sign-on (SSO) utilizes device-specific authentications, such as hardware security keys and fingerprint or face recognition.

Carolina Key eliminates the need to use passwords when logging into many web applications. Students can begin registering devices for Carolina Key at the end of this month while this option will be available for faculty and staff in 2023.

Software Engineer Tariq Wilson will discuss the design of, and key decisions made during, the development process. Learn how they might be applicable as you consider making passwordless authentication a reality at your institution.

Speaker: Tariq Wilson, software engineer, Identity Management Team, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Moderator:  Steven Zoppi, associate vice president, Services Integration and Architecture, Internet2

The Internet2 NET+ team is excited to announce the release of NET+ Kion, one of the leading cloud enablement solution providers. In response to calls from the research and education community for account automation, cost management, and security monitoring tools for cloud enablement across AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud, Internet2 is collaborating with Kion.

A dozen member institutions worked hard throughout the summer to vet the service, and the result of their efforts is a solid addition to the NET+ service portfolio. During this webinar we explored this new offering.

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Part 2 of the webinar series with Nokia featured a discussion on coherent transmission and how baud rate affects middle mile distances and fiber usage. This session looked at IP over Optics and use cases for ZR+ optics over an open DWDM line system to help reduce cost and enhance sustainability.

This virtual workshop focused on the InCommon Trusted Access Platform packaged software — including configuration and operation. Both the Identity and Service Provider packages can be pre-configured to integrate out of the box with the InCommon Federation using recommended defaults.

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Did you know that DocuSign’s APIs and SDKs allow you unlimited options to leverage the DocuSign platform? University of Maryland Baltimore County is leveraging DocuSign’s powerful APIs for integrations with Box, ImageNow, Peoplesoft, Data Warehouse, and other systems.

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Internet2 welcomed current and prospective Affiliate and Federal Affiliate members for a Town Hall meeting on Sept. 30. Affiliate members included non-profit organizations (excluding K-12 schools) that are research- and/or education-oriented. Federal Affiliate members included federal government departments, agencies, laboratories, and other like units.

The event features an update regarding network-based solutions such as Cloud Connect and the introduction of Oracle FastConnect into our Cloud Connect offerings. We also heard from a few Affiliate and Federal Affiliate members, including the newest Affiliate member organization to join the community.

Grouper simplifies access management by letting you use the same group or role in many places in your organization. It automates changes to access privileges as a person’s role changes. It empowers the right people to manage access, taking central IT out of the loop. This virtual class spanned four half days.

Grouper is used in the InCommon Trusted Access Platform architecture to manage attribute, role-based authorization services and group memberships in an auditable way based on institutional data from systems of record.

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The last year has seen some big changes for the eduroam service, from new infrastructure to new user interface to new ways to deploy eduroam at scale for new communities. We provided you an overview of what’s changed, how it’s changed, and features and capabilities that are coming soon to your eduroam.

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During the COVID-19 pandemic communication networks have provided an essential lifeline for work, school, our health, information, and entertainment during this challenging time at a level which has no historical precedent.

Work from home and learn from home is likely to play a larger role in the way we live even after the virus threat has subsided. At the same time, industry is evolving to exploit the benefit of being “Always Connected” in new ways driven by increased demand, new opportunities, and the benefits of cloud-based processing.

This benefit was formerly only provided to consumers but now, through the adoption of 5G, is extended to machines and brings with it new and severe requirements which challenge the new applications, the networks that serve them, the data centers which host them, and the devices throughout which enable them. The principal challenge is the evolution of our networks from the “set and forget” best effort networks to new dynamic and deterministic networks of tomorrow.  

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The Minority Serving – Cyberinfrastructure Consortium (MS-CC) and Internet2, in collaboration with the American Indian Higher Education Consortium (AIHEC), are organizing a series of cyberinfrastructure and cybersecurity workshops on the campuses of historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs) and tribal colleges and universities (TCUs). The National Science Foundation is funding the workshops as part of their recent Cyberinfrastructure Center of Excellence Demonstration Pilot award (NSF #2137123).

This workshop was held at Salish Kootenai College in Pablo, Mont.

The cybersecurity workshops provide hands-on learning experiences for information technology leadership and staff from HBCUs and TCUs focused on strategies and tactics to improve their institution’s cybersecurity posture, as well as defend against and effectively respond to the growing threat of ransomware attacks.

The workshops were held at NC A&T State University and Salish Kootenai College. There will be upcoming workshops at Alabama A&M University, Claflin University, and Jackson State University this fall. Additional workshops at HBCUs are under consideration.

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The webinar, “You Need Structure: A Panel Discussion with Internet2 NET+ ServiceNow Institutions on Governance” was held on Wednesday, July 27.

The discussion examined how to determine which projects and initiatives should have priority? Three panelists whose campuses combined have close to two decades of experience leveraging the capabilities of Internet2 NET+ ServiceNow to establish and implement governance structures.

The panelists were:

• Mojgan Amini, director, Process Management & Continuous Improvement, University of California, San Diego
• Katie Rose, senior director for IT strategy, Planning & Architecture, Notre Dame University
• Henry Umansky, associate director of Service Management, Princeton University

The event was moderated by:

• Mitchell Pautz, senior IT service management analyst, University of Southern California

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What would it take to rid the world of passwords? This question has been asked for many years and led to standards like U2F, UAF, FIDO2, and WebAuthn. We’re now in 2022, adoption is still low, and 2FA phishing is on the rise. As an industry, we have all the pieces and plumbing, so how do we enable strong, phishing-resistant authentication for the masses who don’t have security keys?

During this webinar, we looked at the evolving landscape for strong, phishing-resistant authentication and take a deep dive on passkey—the experiences it enables and the standards that are making it possible. We also discussed what this means for the education community.

The Internet2 NET+ Google Workspace for Education program worked with Google to develop an Internet2 member-only webinar series to showcase the key benefits of the NET+ GWE service.

During the webinar the presentation focused on:

• How to leverage the security features included in the Plus edition as well as storage tools
• Why the Internet2 NET+ Google Workspace for Education program is so much more than just exclusive discounts
• What the differentiators are between the free and paid editions of Google Workspace for Education
• How to leverage Google Workspace for Education to enhance teaching and learning, security and insights, and the tools you provide to your campuses

This event took place on July 6. Ben Fineman, director of Internet2 Industry Engagement, discussed the results of the market intelligence white paper on “IT Buying and Procurement Trends and Stakeholders in Higher Education.”

To request a link to this members only recording, please email industry@internet2.edu.

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Internet2 spent 2021 moving our eduroam infrastructure to better support the scaling of our service to primary and secondary schools, as well as museums, libraries, and other public locations that might be available to students. The webinar allowed participants to reflect on our journey so far; how community input informed the migration, where the eduroam service is today, and how to influence the future direction and growth of the service.

Speakers:

eduroam Advisory Committee Co-Chair Jeff Egly, associate director of the Utah Education and Telehealth Network

Sara Jeanes, product manager, eduroam

Romy Bolton, project manager, InCommon

This virtual workshop was a hands-on workshop, providing a conceptual understanding of COmanage, an identity registry with flexible enrollment and lifecycle management capabilities that helps you meet your identity management objectives. The workshop provided the technical know-how to get this solution up and running.

The Internet2 NET+ Google Workspace for Education program worked with Google to develop an Internet2 member-only webinar series to showcase the key benefits of the NET+ GWE service.

During the webinars attendees learned more about:

• How to leverage the security features included in the Plus edition as well as storage tools
• Why the Internet2 NET+ Google Workspace for Education program is so much more than just exclusive discounts
• What the differentiators are between the free and paid editions of Google Workspace for Education
• How to leverage Google Workspace for Education to enhance teaching and learning, security and insights, and the tools you provide to your campuses

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Are you aware of these new phishing attacks and prepared to defend against them? The NET+ Program hosted a webinar on “Mitigating MITM Phishing Toolkit Attacks that Bypass MFA.”

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The Minority Serving – Cyberinfrastructure Consortium (MS-CC) and Internet2 are presenting a series of ransomware security and cyberinfrastructure workshops beginning in June 2022 to be held on the campuses of historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs) and tribal colleges and universities (TCUs). The first workshop took place June 22-23 on the North Carolina A&T State University campus in Greensboro, NC.

The cybersecurity workshops provide hands-on learning experiences for information technology leadership and staff from HBCUs and TCUs focused on strategies and tactics to improve their institution’s cybersecurity posture, as well as defend against and effectively respond to the growing threat of ransomware attacks.

If the NC A&T State University workshop is not geographically convenient for you, there will be subsequent workshops at Alabama A&M University, Claflin University, Salish Kootenai College, and Jackson State University. Additional workshops at HBCUs are under consideration.

The Internet2 NET+ Google Workspace for Education program worked with Google to develop an Internet2 member-only webinar series to showcase the key benefits of the NET+ GWE service.

Participants learned about:

• How to leverage the security features included in the Plus edition as well as storage tools
• Why the Internet2 NET+ Google Workspace for Education program is so much more than just exclusive discounts
• What the differentiators are between the free and paid editions of Google Workspace for Education
• How to leverage Google Workspace for Education to enhance teaching and learning, security and insights, and the tools you provide to your campuses
• …and much more!

“Making Sense of Cloud Computing for Research: It’s Not Just Lift and Shift!” was led by Scott Friedman, Amazon Web Services (AWS). Scott will talk about hybrid computing, cloud bursting, and leveraging existing solutions and tools for cloud-native research workflows.

This webinar was hosted by Internet2’s Cloud Learning and Skills Sessions (CLASS) program, which fills the gaps in training for cloud and research computing.

InCommon BaseCAMP is geared toward those new to identity and access management, new to InCommon, or both. This virtual workshop focused on the basics of identity and access management, an introduction to the InCommon Federation, and overviews and demonstrations of the community-developed identity and access management suite, the InCommon Trusted Access Platform.

This webinar gave participants the opportunity to learn about Internet2’s Routing Integrity Initiative. If you have follow-up questions or feedback, please contact us at manrs@internet2.edu.

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The 3^rd Internet Reunion Club public session focused on “Using the Internet” (as opposed to building the internet) in the period between 1983 to 1992, i.e. before the web/browser. The session featured a panel of speakers and internet pioneers from the period who gave short talks, and then answered questions from participants.

This high-level, hands-on virtual learning experience with AWS combined exposure to cloud services and terminology. This virtual course was  designed for cloud computing beginners looking to facilitate or develop research workflows on the cloud.

The four-hour, virtual interactive course introduced the “what” and “how” of cloud computing for research using AWS. Participants had an immersive experience on the basic concepts of cloud computing and left with knowledge of how to compute, provision storage, and build research workflows in the cloud.

The I2 Leadership Exchange was held in person in Denver, Colo. on May 23—25. This event was designed specifically for and open exclusively to Chief Information Officers, Regional Executives, and executive leadership of all Internet2 member organizations.

Stay tuned for more Leadership Exchange offerings in 2022!

Grouper training was held on May 17-20, 2022. Participants leveraged Grouper to solve common access management problems.

The Grouper component offered management of institutional and personal groups, roles, and permissions for use by project managers, departments, institutions, and end users to:

• load institutional cohorts from systems of record
• manage policies centrally for applications
• share roles among multiple collaborative tools
• audit who has access and when
• provision entitlements to LDAP, SAML, messaging, and services.

This YouTube livestream event featured a conversation with Lawrence Williams, program director of the Minority Serving-Cyberinfrastructure Consortium.  Get the latest on tech trends on I2 Tech Talk and the people who make innovation happen for a variety of community members in research and education. Internet2 Director of Industry Engagement Ben Fineman interviews guests from the community to showcase exciting developments.

When digitizing your university’s paperwork processes, you have lots of options, but some are better designed for research and education than others.

Carahsoft, in collaboration with Internet2 NET+, provided a DocuSign webinar on May 3 to learn how the University of Pittsburgh and Virginia Commonwealth University are leveraging DocuSign eSignature to digitize agreements, saving these institutions time while increasing privacy and security.

In addition, get details on how your organization can take advantage of the NET+ DocuSign service.

midPoint, powered by Evolveum, is a general-purpose identity management and governance system used by the InCommon Trusted Access Platform. midPoint can synchronize and reconcile among multiple systems of record and sources of identity, as well as to provision and de-provision user accounts and groups into services.

This course was intended for identity management architects, identity management system engineers and deployment partners who will customize, deploy and support midPoint Identity Manager in a way that integrates with the InCommon Trusted Access Platform components.

In honor of Earth Day, we turned our attention to the environment. Digital Transformation can drive improved student outcomes, speed time to science, and increase agility within higher education institutions. Higher education leadership, responding to student and faculty demands, look to incorporate sustainability goals and practices into the university experience. In this session, we talked about sustainability transformation, how it’s being approached at Amazon and AWS, and actions higher education customers can take to incorporate sustainability into their digital transformation efforts.

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Presenters, Grady Bailey, senior software engineer, the University of Texas at Austin; Lacey Vickery, technology applications specialist, UNC Charlotte; and Bruce Vincent, director of identity and middleware services, Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC), shared their experiences with the Collaboration Success Program (CSP) program and how it is helping them to achieve their IAM goals.

This virtual workshop focused on the InCommon Trusted Access Platform packaged software —  including configuration and operation. Both the Identity and Service Provider packages can be pre-configured to integrate out of the box with the InCommon Federation using recommended defaults. Learn more about Shibboleth.

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In an ever-changing higher education landscape, trust and identity are vital components for managing how researchers, students, librarians, staff, and others are identified, authenticated, and authorized to access tools and resources vital to their jobs.

At the helm, those in information technology leadership positions are posed with an immense question – how do I make that happen at my institution? This event featured in-depth conversations with chief information officers who have implemented identity and access management (IAM) solutions for strategic connections and collaboration across their campuses and beyond.

This webinar provided updates on two important aspects of the InCommon Certificate Service: OU field deprecation and ACME automation. Learn more.

COmanage is an identity registry with flexible enrollment and lifecycle management capabilities that helps you meet your identity management objectives using standardized tools and approaches. COmanage can be used as a central person registry, a guest management system, or a collaboration hub for scholarly collaborations.

This virtual workshop was a hands-on workshop, providing a conceptual understanding of COmanage, and the technical know-how to get this solution up and running.

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Globus is a widely used platform for research data management among Internet2 members. While many institutions use Globus primarily for reliable file transfer, the platform has evolved to provide a comprehensive set of data management capabilities.

In this online event, we described major enhancements made over the past two years, and demonstrated new features and APIs that support the development of applications in service of research. Topics included the new architecture for Globus Connect Server, support for additional cloud storage systems, services for data search and discovery, and various capabilities for automating large-scale data flows.

Read the blog by Vas Vasiliadis, Chief Customer Officer for Globus at the University of Chicago.

Grouper training was held February 8-11, 2022.

The training addressed common access management problems.

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This Open Meeting about the Minority Serving-Cyberinfrastructure Consortium (MS-CC) included updates on the NSF Pilot Center of Excellence Award, MS-CC needs and requirements, stakeholders, and next steps for the community to get involved. The moderators facilitated a Question and Answer session about the MS-CC for participants.

The MS-CC envisions a transformational partnership to promote advanced cyberinfrastructure (CI) capabilities on HBCU, HSI, TCU, and MSI campuses. Together with the community, the MS-CC is advancing connections across campuses around data, research computing, teaching, curriculum development, professional development, and capacity building.

The 2020 Global Summit was scheduled to take place March 29-April 1 in Indianapolis, IN, but was canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

The 2019 Global Summit was held from March 5-8 in Washington, D.C.

The 2018 Global Summit was held from May 6-9 in San Diego, CA.

The 2019 Technology Exchange was held from December 9-12 in New Orleans, LA.

The 2018 Technology Exchange was held from October 15-18 in Orlando, FL.