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  • From: Steve Olshansky <>
  • To: "<>" <>
  • Subject: [Assurance] Deadline Extended - Call for Participation: The Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) Cohortium
  • Date: Mon, 8 Apr 2013 17:21:17 +0000
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All-
The deadline for applications to participate in the Multi-Factor
Authentication Cohortium has been moved to April 26, 2013. Whether you have a
current deployment of multi-factor authentication, or you think you may be
deploying some time in the next few years, the Cohortium will be a great
place to learn from others and share your experiences.

See below for further details.
Steve

--
Steve Olshansky
Director, Federated Technologies
Internet2
www.internet2.edu
www.incommon.org


Begin forwarded message:

> From: Steve Olshansky
> <>
> Subject: Call for Participation: The Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA)
> Cohortium
> Date: March 12, 2013 5:07:01 PM MDT
> To:
> <>
> Reply-To:
> ""
>
> <>
>
> The Internet2 Scalable Privacy Project (ScalePriv), funded with the recent
> NSTIC grant
> to Internet2, is seeking campuses to participate in the Multi-factor
> Authentication (MFA)
> Cohortium" (see definition below). Applications are open until April 12,
> 2013.
>
> The MFA Cohortium is a ScalePriv-supported group of institutions sharing
> their
> explorations, experiences, expertise, artifacts, and overall "journey" in
> learning about,
> planning for, and deploying multi-factor authentication for a variety of
> key use cases
> within each institution, as well as federated access to services. It will
> be a facilitated
> and focused 15-month effort to help you (as a participating institution)
> make real
> progress towards MFA deployments. It will enable your institution, and
> higher education
> more broadly, to answer the questions "where do we need MFA?," "how do we
> deploy it?," and
> "what will it cost and what is our ROI?." And it will be focused on the
> research and
> education (R&E) community, dealing with issues and use cases of particular
> concern within
> R&E such as integrating MFA into WebSSO, sensitive data, cloud services,
> distance
> learners, bring-your-own-device, and the return on investment (ROI) within
> the R&E
> environment.
>
> Important highlights:
> * Will provide your institution broader access to expertise, resources, and
> collaborators
> to help you accomplish your MFA goals.
> *Enable a significant advancement in the deployment of Multi-factor
> Authentication across
> Higher Education.
> * Combining MFA with federation can multiply the impact and reach of MFA to
> inter-
> institutional, shared resource, and cloud service environments.
> * A key effort within the Internet2 Scalable Privacy Project.
> * 15-month facilitated collaborative effort beginning in April 2013 and
> ending in June
> 2014.
> * Number of institutions accepted for participation in the Cohortium may
> need to be
> restricted, depending on response, to ensure value and effective
> collaboration for the
> member institutions.
>
> The full Call for Participation, containing a much richer explanation of
> the goals of the
> MFA Cohortium, more detailed information on what it will do and how it will
> operate, the
> expectations for institutions participating, and what information is needed
> in your
> "application to join", can be found at:
>
> Call for Participation: https://spaces.internet2.edu/x/mQgwAg
>
> One option for applying will be to use the web-based application form:
>
> Apply online at: https://spaces.internet2.edu/x/4wwwAg
>
> Remember, the closing date for applications is April 12, 2013. Questions
> may be
> sent to:
>
> .
>
> cohortium: "Group of institutions sharing their explorations, experiences,
> expertise, artifacts, and overall journey," in this case of planning for and
> deploying multi-factor authentication.
> * Cohort: In statistics and demography, a cohort is a group of subjects
> who have shared
> a particular event together during a particular time span [cohort
> (statistics) from
> Wikipedia].
> * -tium added to noun base to create abstract noun, "something connected
> with the act,"
> could mean "act, condition, office of...".
>
>
> --
> Steve Olshansky
> Director, Federated Technologies
> Internet2
> www.internet2.edu
> www.incommon.org




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