June 2012
Subscriber Agreement Available for Duo Security Multifactor Offering
The subscriber agreement for the InCommon/Duo Security site license for phone-based two-factor authentication is available. The program is open to InCommon participants and Internet2 members receive a discount.
June 13 IAM Online Covers Multifactor Authentication
Interest in multifactor authentication, a.k.a. two-factor, continues to grow among some federal agencies and higher education. We'll discuss approaches to multifactor in our IAM Online, Wednesday, June 13, 2012, at 3 pm EDT, as well as why one university plans to use multifactor to achieve InCommon Silver.
Revised Assurance Documents Approved; On to FICAM
InCommon's Assurance Advisory Council and the InCommon Steering Committee have approved changes to the v1.2 assurance documents with the primary goal of streamlining the process of qualifying for Bronze. InCommon will now send these documents to the US Government Identity, Credential, and Access Management (ICAM) program to continue InCommon's certification as a trust framework provider.
June 6 Call to Discuss Remote Identity Proofing and Silver
A group of campuses planning to achieve the Silver assurance profile have started a discussion about remote identity proofing and Silver. Anyone interested is invited to join the discussion. The next call is Wednesday, June 6. Call coordinates and background information are on the wiki.
Shibboleth Workshop July 16-17 at UMBC
Registration is open for the next InCommon Shibboleth Workshop, July 16 (IdP) and 17 (SP) on the campus of UMBC in Baltimore. These workshops provide technical installation and configuration experience with Shibboleth using a self-paced set of instructions.
Federation Info Pages
Looking for information about services available via InCommon, including short descriptions? Looking for contacts, error URLs, or other information about entities? Check out the federation info pages, which draw information from the metadata.
New Research & Scholarship Services
Three more services have joined the Research and Scholarship (R&S) category:
- CarmenWiki (Ohio State)
- LIGO CBC Wiki
- Penn State WikiSpaces
The category makes onboarding simpler, with an IdP releasing a minimal set of attributes to the category. See the federation info pages for a complete list of R&S SPs.
New Certificate Service Subscribers
Welcome to new InCommon Certificate Service subscribers. These institutions bring the total to 173 subscribers:
- Dixie State College of Utah
- Harvard University
- The Julliard School
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- McDaniel College, Inc.
- Pacific University
- Shippensburg University
- Stark State College
- Vermont State Colleges
New Participants in May
As of the end of May, InCommon has 406 participants. We welcome these new participants to the InCommon community.
Higher Education
Research Organizations
Sponsored Partners
BioRAFT - Laboratory safety and compliance have become pressing issues in the academic and biotech research industry. Laboratory accidents are on the rise and research institutions are facing increasing scrutiny from regulatory agencies, often including financial penalties. BioRAFT offers a secure integrated platform that streamlines the laboratory safety and compliance workflows at an institution. This platform empowers R&D organizations to consolidate their efforts, standardize information collection and storage by delivering tools though a single easy-to-use web interface. Foremost, BioRAFT decreases total costs of ownership and operations and reduces institutional risk. Learn more about how BioRAFT keeps your researchers safe and your institution compliant at: www.bioraft.com
Ensemble Video, the award-winning media management and publishing system, enables efficient, coordinated and collaborative rich media management and is a top choice for higher education institutions and K-12 schools and school districts seeking an easy, flexible system that facilitates media use across the institution. Ensemble Video now has federated authorization and automated account creation tools especially designed for educational organizations. Ensemble can save thousands of dollars in staff time by eliminating manual account creation when deploying an enterprise-wide media management and publishing system. Ensemble Video’s auto-provisioning mechanism enables system administrators to easily provide access to media content, automatically create media libraries, and manage roles for different users—instructors, staff and students. InCommon organizations that use Shibboleth, LDAP or Active Directory for authentication can take advantage of this new capability.
Instructure focuses on helping institutions improve education through technology. Instructure believes an LMS shouldn’t be a closed system. It should be an easy to use, powerful platform that easily integrates content and communication from everywhere. Founded in 2008 by two computer science graduate students, Instructure builds Canvas―the only simple, open learning management system native to the cloud. Instructure services more than 120 post-secondary and K-12 educational institutions. Investors include OpenView Ventures Partners and Tomorrow Ventures.
(Note: Instructure joined last month, but this information was left out of the newsletter by mistake.)
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