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Date: Aug. 18
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 – VDI as a Security Boundary

Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) offers a powerful approach to establishing security boundaries in regulated research environments. This webinar session explores practical experience implementing VDI across cloud and on-premises platforms supporting regulated research. 

Attendees will learn where VDI fits within the broader secure research environment architecture and explore implementation strategies, including encryption, VPN integration, and key security trade-offs. Our speakers will provide conceptual and technical insights for institutions evaluating VDI as a component of their compliance strategy.

Key Takeaways:

• Describe the role of VDI as a security boundary within a secure research environment architecture, and how it supports compliance with frameworks such as NIST SP 800-171 and CMMC
• Identify key security considerations — including encryption, VPN, and access controls — when deploying VDI for regulated research workloads
• Evaluate trade-offs in cost, complexity, and security posture when selecting a VDI platform for regulated research

Speakers:

• Jason Armbruster, CLASS Consultant for Internet2
  • Associate Deputy Director of ACCESS Support at the University of Colorado Boulder
• Sean Kelly, Senior Software Engineer at Purdue University

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• Curt Herridge, Associate Chief Information Officer at Southern Methodist University
• Graeme Varga, Identity Engineer at Southern Methodist University
• Chris Hyzer, Application Architect at the University of Pennsylvania

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Date: Aug. 19-20
Time: 1-5 p.m. ET each day
Cost: $100 for Cloud Infrastructure Community Program subscribers; $150 for Internet2 members; $200 for non-members

Security teams generate a lot of alerts. This workshop helps make sense of them. 

Get introduced to AWS’s core detection services. Learn how they work, what they catch, and how they feed into one another. Explore AWS tools Security Hub and Inspector — the two services most directly relevant to compliance posture and vulnerability management on campus. 

Participants will learn how to enable and configure detection across their environment, understand what the findings mean and how to prioritize them, and gain a clear picture of their security posture.

Instructor: Kevin Murakoshi, Principal Solutions Architect, Amazon Web Services

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Date: Aug. 26
Time: 11 a.m. –  6 p.m. ET
Cost: $75 for Cloud Infrastructure Community Program subscribers; $100 for Internet2 members; $150 for non-members

Join the Internet2 CLASS program for this hands-on Microsoft Fabric Hackathon. 

Over the course of this fast-paced and interactive virtual event, you’ll design and build your own complete Fabric workspace. Explore how Fabric combines data engineering, analytics, AI, governance, and business intelligence within a single unified platform.

Complete real tasks, make real workspace design decisions, and finish with a working analytics solution that you can utilize in your institutional production environments.

Instructors:

• John Brown, Senior Solution Engineer, Microsoft
• Nick Tinsley, Senior Solution Engineer, Microsoft

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Date: Aug. 27
Time: 10:30 a.m. – 5:30 p.m. ET
Cost: Free for Cloud Infrastructure Community Program subscribers ($50 no-show fee deducted from voucher); $50 for NET+ GCP subscribers; $150 for Internet2 members; $200 for non-members

This one-day workshop focuses on the critical administrative aspects of Google Cloud, including folder structure, organizational policies, project provisioning, role management, billing, credit management, and more.

Participants will gain hands-on experience with key GCP management tools and learn best practices for configuring and maintaining their institution’s Google Cloud environment.

This workshop is recommended for intermediate and advanced cloud engineers, cloud platform administrators, and cloud enablement teams.

Instructor: Suraj Jois, Google Cloud Authorized Trainer

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Date: Sept. 1
Time: 1-2:30 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 – Compliance-Aware Data Management Using Globus

Learn about the sharing and access control capabilities of Globus that help institutions meet compliance requirements for research data sharing and collaboration. See how features such as time-limited permissions, sharing policies, and carefully scoped guest collections can be used to enforce least privilege and controlled access to data. We will also cover data classification and how to design sharing workflows that respect regulatory and contractual constraints.

Key Takeaways:

• Support compliance-oriented data sharing with Globus sharing capabilities
• Map Globus configurations to NIH Data Management and Sharing Policy and other federal data sharing requirements
• Design data sharing workflows that respect sensitivity, institutional review board constraints, and data use agreements

Speaker:

• Brigitte Raumann, Director of Product Management and Compliance at Globus

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Dive into the world of Shibboleth Service and Identity Providers. Get hands-on training and gain expertise in deploying, configuring, and managing Shibboleth software. Explore containers, DevOps strategies, and modernize your operations while receiving personalized guidance from experienced trainers. You’ll also learn how to integrate seamlessly with InCommon Federation using recommended defaults. Plus, see a demo of the Metadata Configuration Manager [formerly Shib IdP UI).

Instructors:

• Paul Riddle, Senior Middleware Architect, University of Maryland – Baltimore County
• Paul Caskey, IAM Architect, Internet2

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Date: September 16-17
Time: 1-5 p.m. ET both days
Cost: $100 for Cloud Infrastructure Community Program subscribers; $150 for Internet2 members; $200 for non-members

Designed for learners with little to no prior experience in data analytics or Google Cloud, this workshop covers the basics of data analysis, including data collection, storage, exploration, visualization, and sharing. Participants will also be introduced to Google Cloud’s data analytics tools and services.

Learn through video lectures, demos, quizzes, and hands-on labs that demonstrate how to transform raw data into impactful visualizations and dashboards.

This workshop is recommended for beginners, data analysts, and data visualization professionals.

Instructor: Jennifer Slabbert, Senior Instructor, Fast Lane

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Have you hit roadblocks while troubleshooting RADIUS? Are you aware of those authentications that fail, but the logs aren’t giving up any insights? Do you see patterns of failures but can’t find a consistent cause?

This eduroam workshop is aimed at IT infrastructure staff with some RADIUS configuration experience who want to gain more hands-on experience. We will explore infrastructure topics relevant to eduroam, including in-depth RADIUS troubleshooting and packet analysis, identifying and correcting eduroam-specific RADIUS proxy issues, eduroam best practices, and more.

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Date: Sep. 23-24
Time: 1-5 p.m. ET each day
Cost: $100 for Cloud Infrastructure Community Program subscribers; $150 for Internet2 members; $200 for non-members

Researchers and research computing data professionals often inherit cloud environments or run into problems they weren’t trained to solve. 

This two-day workshop addresses the most common issues encountered in research cloud environments, including debugging identity and access management policies and permission failures; configuring and responding to budget alerts; investigating security alerts; troubleshooting network connectivity; and using CloudTrail and VPC Flow Logs to diagnose problems. A working knowledge of AWS fundamentals (AWS Research for Non-Majors – Basics or equivalent) is recommended.

Instructor: Kevin Murakoshi, Principal Solutions Architect, Amazon Web Services

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Date: Oct. 6
Time: 2 – 3:30 p.m. ET
Cost: Free

This session provides a practical introduction to Globus Connect Server for system administrators. Participants will learn how to install GCS, register an endpoint, and configure basic storage gateways and mapped collections for POSIX-based campus or lab storage systems.

Explore essential configuration files and concepts, discuss firewall and network considerations, and learn how to create and test a simple endpoint suitable for end-user data transfers and basic sharing.

Instructor: Lev Gorenstein, Solutions Architect at Globus, University of Chicago

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Date: Oct. 14-15
Time: 1-5 p.m. ET each day
Cost: $100 for Cloud Infrastructure Community Program subscribers; $150 for Internet2 members; $200 for non-members

The third installment in the AWS Security for Non-Majors series puts detection into action. Over two days, participants will work through a selection of realistic incident response scenarios drawn from AWS CIRT’s publicly released workshop library. 

Attendees will practice investigating alerts, containing incidents, collecting evidence, and remediating compromised resources. Build the muscle memory needed to respond confidently when something goes wrong.

Instructor: Kevin Murakoshi, Principal Solutions Architect, Amazon Web Services

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Date: Oct. 21-22
Time: 1-5 p.m. ET both days
Cost: $100 for Cloud Infrastructure Community Program subscribers; $150 for Internet2 members; $200 for non-members

Learn how to use various tools in Google Cloud to take in, manage, and leverage your data to derive insights in your research. 

Participants will be introduced to tools used by researchers on Google Cloud and will learn how to absorb both unstructured and structured data into Cloud Storage and BigQuery, respectively. 

See how to curate data and understand costs in Google Cloud and leverage notebook environments and other Google Cloud tools for descriptive and predictive analysis.

This workshop is recommended for beginners on Google Cloud, as well as researchers, research lab staff, and research computing data professionals.

Instructor: Tom Tipuric, Google Cloud Authorized Trainer

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Registration is open for the 2026 Technology Exchange held Oct. 26-30 in Minneapolis, Minn.

View the general schedule and check out hotel and travel information. We hope to see you there!

This course tackles complex identity scenarios that are unique to higher education institutions and how midPoint can address them.

Pick up techniques for managing concurrent roles, implementing grace periods, and orchestrating smooth identity transitions while maintaining appropriate access levels and security controls.

This training covers multi-source identities, advanced role management, life cycles, and so much more.

Instructors:

• Ivan Noris, Expert Identity Engineer, Evolveum
• Peter Balčirák, Identity Engineer, Evolveum

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Date: Nov. 11-12
Time: 1-5 p.m. ET each day
Cost: $100 for Cloud Infrastructure Community Program subscribers; $150 for Internet2 members; $200 for non-members

Has your security team asked you to inspect cloud traffic the same way you do on-prem — and you’re not quite sure how that works in AWS? This workshop is for you. 

In AWS, traffic inspection works differently. The cloud routing model requires a new approach to get appliances inline without changing how your applications behave. 

This workshop covers the right way to do it using AWS Gateway Load Balancer and gives you three hours of hands-on lab time to build it yourself. No prior experience with the inspection tools is required. This course is recommended for network engineers and security practitioners with basic AWS experience.

Instructor: Kevin Murakoshi, Principal Solutions Architect, Amazon Web Services

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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. 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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Look for more information soon on the 2027 Internet2 Global Summit (formerly Community Exchange) to be held April 5-8, 2027, in Philadelphia, Penn.

Look for more information soon on the 2027 Internet2 Technology Exchange to be held Dec. 6-9, 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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