February 2013
IAM Online: Accepting Social Identities: Integration with SAML and Deployment Strategies.
Things are moving fast and furious to develop ways to integrate social identities with existing federated SAML-based identity management. The February IAM Online will talk about specific next steps, review the steps in configuring an SP to use the pilot gateway, answer questions about deployment, and discuss a central Social-to-SAML gateway. Join us Wednesday, February 13, 2013, at 3 pm ET. See the details on how to participate.
New Pricing for Duo Security Second-Factor Authentication
A new pricing model with Duo Security will allow qualified InCommon participants and Internet2 members to enroll as few as 500 users in Duo's mobile-based, two-factor authentication.
InCommon Steering Adds Two Members
Two new members have been appointed to the InCommon Steering Committee. Michael Gettes, assistant director for identity services at Carnegie Mellon University; and Klara Jelinkova, associate vice president and chief information technology officer at the University of Chicago, will serve three-year terms.
Reappointed to three-year terms are Mark Crase, chief technology officer for the California State University Office of the Chancellor; Chris Holmes, assistant general counsel at Baylor University; and John O’Keefe, associate vice president and chief information officer at Lafayette College.
Hamilton College - Participant #500
The InCommon community welcomed Hamilton College as its 500th participant late in January. As of the end of January, InCommon includes 337 higher education institutions, 28 government and non-profit research centers and agencies, and 135 corporate and non-profit partners
New Three-Year Comodo Agreement
Internet2 and Comodo have signed an agreement extending the InCommon Certificate Service partnership through 2016. Since opening its doors in mid-2010, the Certificate Service has attracted 221 subscribing institution.
New Certificate Service Subscribers
The InCommon Certificate Service now has 222 subscribers. We welcome these new members to the community.
- Marine Biological Lab
- Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education Office of the Chancellor
- University of Alabama at Birmingham
- University of Nevada, Reno
- University of Rio Grande
- University of Wisconsin-River Falls
New Participants in January
 InCommon currently has 507 participants. We welcome these new participants (since early January) to the InCommon community |
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