December 2012
Self-Service Password Reset Available for Federation Manager
If you forget your password to the Federation Manager, you can now generate a new password yourself. InCommon has introduced a two-factor password reset tool that leverages the email address and phone number that we have on file. You can see a quick video demo and/or read more about the two-factor password reset process, and the underlying technology, on the wiki.
IAM Online: Accepting Social Identity
The next IAM Online webinar (Wednesday, December 12, 2012, at 3 pm EST) will feature case studies for leveraging social identity, as well as a pilot social-to-SAML gateway hosted by the University of Texas System. See the details and please plan to join us.
Email Lists for Assurance, Certificates
InCommon offers community email lists for both the certificate service () and the assurance program (). Both are open to anyone with an interest in those services. To subscribe to either list, send email to . The subject of your email should be: subscribe <name of list>.
Two Services Added to Research & Scholarship Category
The Collaboration Wiki Spaces at Internet2 and Narada Metrics, a service offered by the Ohio Technology Consortium (OH-TECH), have been added to the InCommon Research and Scholarship Category. (See a list of all Research & Scholarship service providers and identity providers.) Service providers eligible for the category support research and scholarship services for the InCommon community. Participating identity providers agree to release a minimal set of attributes to the category.
CAS/Shib and Grouper Training Offered After Jasig/Sakai Unconference
InCommon Affiliate Unicon will offer two training sessions—one for CAS/Shibboleth and one for Grouper—on January 17, 2013, immediately following the Jasig/Sakai unconference. For details and registration information, go to www.unicon.net.
New Certificate Service Subscribers
The InCommon Certificate Service has 210 subscribers, including these new subscribers in November.
- Colorado State University
- University at Albany, SUNY
- University of Georgia
- University of North Florida Board of Trustees
- University of Pennsylvania
New Participants in November
Higher Education
Sponsored Partners
New Sponsored Partners
Advantage Connect Pro provides third-party hosting, support and managed services for your Adobe Connect server or cluster. We fully integrate and support your Shibboleth identity management system. Let the pros do it right – at Advantage Connect Pro we have worked directly with Adobe to optimize and secure your Adobe Connect environments. Our data centers have multiple redundant internet backbones to keep you on the internet at all times, not to mention full redundancy across all hardware devices within our infrastructure.
The Open Cloud Consortium (OCC) is a not-for-profit that manages and operates cloud computing infrastructure to support scientific, environmental, medical and health care research. We are focused on using this technology to make scientific advances by working with scientists in a variety of disciplines. The OCC manages and operates the Open Science Data Cloud (OSDC), which is a multiple distributed cloud-based infrastructure for managing, analyzing, integrating and sharing scientific data. Over the past four years of operations, the OCC team has developed the expertise to set up and operate open source science clouds over geographically distributed data centers connected with 10G high performance networks. The OCC currently distributes approximately 1 PB of scientific data to interested users and plans in each of the next several years to roughly double the amount of data that it distributes.
rSmart delivers cost effective, expert technology solutions for higher education to improve teaching, learning, research, and administration. We build on top of open source, community developed Kuali and Sakai software, adding key capabilities, cloud delivery, consulting services, and support to deliver enterprise-ready solutions. This collaborative, sustainable approach enables rSmart customers to reduce cost, simplify deployment, optimize business processes, and leverage the collective insights of a global education community.
Rsam provides IT Governance, Risk and Compliance (GRC) solutions on an Enterprise GRC platform, serving many types of customers and verticals. Since 2003, Rsam has been successfully implemented at hundreds of organizations and government agencies enabling them to effectively identify, manage and mitigate risks, while providing enterprise-wide visibility, oversight and assurance. Modular solutions streamline GRC processes while reducing costs in the areas of assessments, audit, compliance, enterprise risk, incident management, issues and remediation, policy management, vendor risk, and vulnerability management. Rsam joined InCommon as a service provider to facilitate SAML2.0 trusted relationships for Rsam SSO authentication for customers with cloud-hosted Rsam instances.
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