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Title: InCommon Update - December 2014

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December 2014

Are Passwords Passé? Deployment Strategies for Multi-Factor Authentication - Director's Cut

You may have heard them at Educause, but David Walker and Mike Grady return on Wednesday, December 10 (2 pm ET) for a special appearance at IAM Online. They'll cover the work of the Multifactor Cohortium, with more than 40 institutions evaluating multifactor authentication alternatives (phone, certificates, and hardware-based tokens) to mitigate risks and increase security. Read all about it, and see the connection details, at www.incommon.org/iamonline.

InCommon Reaches 700 Participants

InCommon has welcomed its 700th participant (up from 586 at the beginning of the year)! Other milestones recently achieved:

• InCommon has welcomed its 200th Sponsored Partner, DocuSign. Read more.
• The Research & Scholarship Category has registered its 100th identity provider. See all R&S IdPs and SPs.
• Now, 500 InCommon organizations have at least one entity registered in metadata. See the list.

Technology Exchange Highlights

There were a number of hot topics and overflowing sessions at the 2014 Technology Exchange in late October. While it's not the same as being there, slide presentations and videos are available, including:

• An Introduction to Identity Management
• Federated Incident Security Response
• Federated Authorization (netcast)
• 2014 Technology Exchange highlights (video)
• Many Netcast sessions (including the general session keynoters)

Harvard University Achieves Bronze Assurance

Harvard University has become certified for the InCommon Bronze Identity Assurance Profile under the InCommon Assurance Program. The Assurance Program allows Identity Providers to demonstrate security and trust through the use of standards-based identity practices. Read more.

nanoHUB New Research & Scholarship Service Provider

An important new service provider, nanoHUB, has been added to the Research & Scholarship Category. nanoHUB.org is the premier place for computational nanotechnology research, education, and collaboration. The site hosts a rapidly growing collection of simulation programs for nanoscale phenomena that run in the cloud and are accessible through a web browser.

See a complete list of participating identity providers and service providers: https://incommon.org/federation/info/all-sp-categories.html

Grouper Releases Version 2.2.1

Grouper version 2.2.1 has been released, featuring several fixes and enhancements from 2.2.0. Grouper enables project managers, departments, institutions and end users to create and manage institutional and personal groups, roles and permissions. See an introduction to Grouper.

Email Lists: Information and Conversation

InCommon has a number of email lists for you to join and keep abreast of work in federated identity and access management. You can participate in working groups (or just follow their progress), and/or join the participants list for general information and trouble-shooting. Details are at incommon.org/lists.html

Steering, TAC Minutes Available

InCommon Steering Minutes - Keep up on InCommon's policy-making entity. Minutes are available on the InCommon Collaborate wiki.

InCommon Technical Advisory Committee biweekly meeting minutes are available at https://spaces.internet2.edu/x/_QHkAg

Featured Affiliates

Spherical Cow Group provides identity management consulting services for higher education, research, virtual organizations, and enterprises. SCG focuses on open source tools and community standards, and can assist with architecture and design, implementation and development, training, and project management.

The InCommon Affiliate Program connects higher education institutions with commercial or non-profit organizations that provide software, content, guidance, support, and implementation and integration services related to participating in the federation.

New Certificate Service Subscribers

The InCommon Certificate Service now has 314 subscribers. We welcome these new members to the community.

 

• Mount St. Mary's College
• Radford University
• Western Washington University

Duo Security Multifactor Authentication Site License

InCommon and Duo Security offer two affordable pricing models for mobile-based second-factor authentication, including campus site licenses that can cover faculty/staff, student, medical centers, or all of the above. To date, 33 campuses subscribe to the site license and many more are piloting the program using the a la carte option. This month's new site license subscribers:

• University of California - Merced
• University of Maryland County Park
• University of South Carolina

New InCommon Participants

InCommon currently has 700 participants. We welcome these new participants to the InCommon community.

 

Higher Education

• Pacific Lutheran University
• SUNY Geneseo

Sponsored Partners

• AEFIS
• Alivetek
• Campus TelevideoCode42
• Code42
• Docusign
• Dropbox
• Handshake
• IM Leagues
• InfoReady
• Nelnet
• NuPark
• Seelio
• Student Success
• Weill Cornell Medical College in Qatar

As a service to the community, each month, we invite our new Research Organizations and Sponsored Partners to provide information about their services. These partners responded in time for this month's newsletter.

Sponsored Partners

AEFIS — Assessment, Evaluation, Feedback and Intervention System — is the web-based solution for assessment management and continuous improvement that automates best practices in assessment and evaluation in order to enhance curriculum development and streamline the accreditation process. For information, visit www.aefis.com

Code42’s endpoint data protection and management solutions for the enterprise reduce the burden on IT by empowering employees. The company’s user-friendly enterprise applications—CrashPlan and SharePlan—consistently achieve the highest user adoption rates in the industry. Code42’s goal is to provide integration with major SSO providers and the flexibility to integrate with multiple identity providers in one Code42 deployment, including federated identity services like InCommon and Active Directory Federation Services. Employees can easily share, access and recover data from their computer or preferred mobile device. Enterprises choose from managed private, public or hybrid clouds, all backed by the company’s unmatched customer support and 97 percent satisfaction rate. See www.code42.com

Handshake is a full-featured career service management tool that through powerful, elegant technology, is designed to make you and your team more efficient. Handshake is built to be mobile friendly and carefully designed to increase student engagement on college campuses. Visit joinhandshake.com for more information

Nelnet Business Solutions is a leading provider of campus commerce solutions to approximately 700 institutions of higher education. Our platforms are hosted, PCI-DSS Level 1 compliant environments that support electronic billing and payment, actively managed payment plans, commerce management, cashiering, and our innovative student choice refunds service. We enable the business office to more efficiently and securely manage cash flow by handling all payments on campus. Nelnet Business Solutions is the leading provider of tuition payment plans in higher education. We present powerful and customized reconciliation reporting and dashboard metrics to give administrators a clear view of every campus transaction. For more information, visit www.campuscommerce.com

Seelio is a fully-hosted online portfolio solution that partners with institutions to create the world's most prepared students through student lifecycle portfolios. From orientation through graduation, we find touch points throughout the student journey to help students explore, develop their story, gain experience and ultimately find opportunities. Our combination of user-friendly technology, rich data insights, and consultative services leads to more prepared students and helps institutions increase intentional learning, retention and enrollment for their programs. Our secure technology is ADA compliant and integrates with LTI compatible LMS systems. Learn more at: http://www.seelio.com/educators.

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