May 2012
InCommon Reaches 400 Participants
InCommon has welcomed its 400th participating organization. The total number of InCommon participants has grown from 264 at the beginning of 2011 to 400 today. That total includes more than 100 sponsored partners. InCommon offers four service categories, including the federation, certificate service, assurance program, and multifactor authentication services.
Internet2, Duo Security Announce Two-Factor Offering
Internet2 and Duo Security have announced a partnership to offer an easy-to-use and low-cost two-factor authentication technology to protect information and access to services on college campuses. Duo’s technology and cloud service leverage users’ mobile phones as a second factor of authentication. InCommon will enroll campuses through its trust services.
RL "Bob" Morgan Honored by Internet2
Internet2 has bestowed its 2012 Presidents Award to R.L. "Bob" Morgan, co-chair of the InCommon Technical Advisory Committee, chair of the Middleware Architecture Council for Education (MACE), and one of the architects of InCommon.
Assurance Documents Revised
Version 1.2 of the assurance specifications have been available for comment for the past three weeks. Several comments were received and the documents are now being revised. The revisions primarily address the US government need for rapid deployment of Bronze, as well as clarifications to the audit reporting process.
New Certificate Service Subscribers
Welcome to new InCommon Certificate Service subscribers. These institutions bring the total to 163 subscribers:
- Gonzaga University
- Syracuse University
New Participants in April
As of the end of April, InCommon has 400 participants. We welcome these new participants to the InCommon community.
Higher Education
Research Organizations
New Sponsored Partners
The American Psychological Association (APA) is the world's largest organization of psychologists and a publisher of scientific databases. APA joined InCommon with plans to use federated identity to facilitate access to PsycNET databases by institutional users. APA is also working to devise an attribute exchange and binding method built on InCommon authentication where attributes can be sourced from their origin without need for caching. This produces provenance, reduces latency and improves trust.
CenturyLink is the third largest telecommunications company in the United States, providing broadband, voice, wireless and managed services to consumers and businesses, as well as advanced entertainment services under the CenturyLink™ Prism™ TV and DIRECTV brands. In addition, the company provides data, voice and managed services to enterprise, government and wholesale customers in local, national and select international markets through its high-quality advanced fiber optic network and multiple data centers. CenturyLink is a global leader in cloud infrastructure and hosted IT solutions for enterprises through Savvis, a CenturyLink company.
Ex Libris is a leading provider of automation solutions for academic, national, and research libraries, offering a comprehensive product suite for electronic, digital, and print materials. Ex Libris maintains a customer base consisting of 5,000 institutions in more than 80 countries. Many Ex Libris solutions can be integrated with an institution's identity management system, providing authentication for restricted services and materials provided by the library. Ex Libris is proud to join the InCommon Federation as a sponsored partner to demonstrate our commitment to the security of identity management data.
eRezLife offers innovative, intuitive, and cost-effective web-based solutions for residence life and other campus departments of all sizes. We have five modules that may be used as an integrated suite or as stand-alone tools implemented to compliment existing campus systems. We are excited to join InCommon as a sponsored partner so that our client participants can be confident in working with us to implement SAML-based authentication and single-sign functionality.
Unicon Announces Grouper Support - Unicon, Inc., an InCommon Affiliate and IT consulting service provider, 
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