Assurance

[David Walker <>]

Ann,

When we started UCTrust a number of years ago, we decided that there weren't good business drivers to vet all student identities at LoA-2, because of the cost.  There are, however, certain groups of students (notably, those who receive financial aid) where higher assurance is warranted.  Also, we observed that such students will very likely have a close relationship with some part of the university, such as the Financial Aid office, where higher-assurance identity vetting can be done (or, perhaps, is already being done) without significant additional cost.  So, the recommended strategy for identity management systems was to create means by which selected students could be vetted at LoA-2 by leveraging existing business processes to keep the costs low.

I can't speak to how many of UC's identity management systems implemented this strategy; as far as I know, UC doesn't have federated services that would require LoA-2-vetted students.  I'll be interested to see if DoEd's incentive causes some action.

David

On Fri, 2013-01-18 at 16:09 +0000, Ann West wrote:
>     All,
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>     While having an interesting conversation on id proofing with my Educause colleagues Rodney Peterson and Jarret Cummings, Jarret turned my attention to the results of the DoEd Dear Colleague Letter released last year that outlined ways for campuses to help address financial aid fraud.
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>     DoEd now has recommendations, a summary of which can be found here: http://www.tgslc.org/blog/post.cfm/verifying-identity-and-the-statement-of-educational-purpose-examining-the-documentation-standards
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>     Given the difficulty of motivating the administration to take up the mantle of and pay for id proofing in the context of identity assurance, could this driver assist? Reading closely, there are data collection mismatches with the FICAM program and further with InCommon Silver that we may be able to address through discussion with FICAM and DoEd. As side from that, do folks see any value in using to help make the case for id proofing?
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>     Best,
>     Ann
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>     Assurance and Community
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