InCommon News - May 5, 2010

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In This Issue:

  • CAMP Early-Bird Deadline May 10
  • Advance CAMP Early-Bird Deadline Also Approaching
  • IAM Online May 13: Toward Common Identity Services
  • Featured Affiliate: AegisUSA
  • New Case Studies from InCommon
    • National Student Clearinghouse Federates Student Self-Service
    • Drivers for the California State University System
  • InCommon Certificate Service to Roll Out This Summer
  • Bronze, Silver Identity Assurance Profiles Submitted to ICAM
  • New Participants
  • New Sponsored Partners
  • InCommon Affiliate Program Welcomes Unicon, AegisUSA

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CAMP: Exploring and Supporting Federated Identity Management
Early-Bird Registration Deadline May 10

The early-bird registration deadline is fast approaching for CAMP: Exploring and Supporting Federated Identity Management. CAMP includes sessions for new InCommon participants (and those considering joining), as well as a track for management and technical implementers with federated IdM already in place. www.incommon.org/camp.

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Advance CAMP: The Second Identity Services Summit
Early-Bird Deadline May 10

Advance CAMP: The Second Identity Services Summit will be a discussion-oriented, participant-driven meeting to develop new IAM requirements for current projects, products, and development frameworks; and to set the direction for the community on what's next for identity-related activities and resources. The early-bird registration deadline is May 10. www.incommon.org/camp.

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IAM Online May 13 - Toward Common Identity Services

This session will look at identity services problems by considering two specific examples. One is the integration of uPortal with Grouper, and the other is an implementation of the permissions service of Kuali Identity Management (KIM) with a campus privilege management system. This IAM Online will preview the types of objectives of the Advance CAMP: The Second Identity Services Summit. www.incommonfederation.org/iamonline.html.

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Featured Affiliate for May: AegisUSA

AegisUSA is a Denver-based identity management solution provider. With more than 50 clients in higher education, AegisUSA brings a high level of experience and expertise to the InCommon Affiliate program. With its Federated Identity Appliance for Education (hardware or VM version), the company provides a turnkey, cost-effective solution for universities (IdP's) to join InCommon in 30 days or less. www.aegisusa.com

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New Case Studies from InCommon

InCommon released two new case studies at the 2010 Internet2 Spring Member Meeting last week. One looks at the pilot between Stanford University and the National Student Clearinghouse and the other demonstrates the California State University system's plans for federating. www.incommon.org/cases.html

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InCommon Certificate Service to Roll Out This Summer

InCommon has reached an agreement, in principle, to offer the InCommon Certificate Service to the higher education community, providing unlimited server and personal certificates at a low, fixed fee. Full rollout is expected this summer. www.incommon.org/cert

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Bronze, Silver Identity Assurance Profiles Submitted to ICAM

InCommon has submitted its Bronze and Silver Identity Assurance Profiles to the ICAM (Identity, Credential, and Access Management) program of the federal government's GSA. Acceptance by ICAM would approve InCommon as a trust framework provider for the federal government.

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New Participants in April

Higher Education

Sponsored Partners

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New Sponsored Partners

CSO Research, Inc. (www.csoresearch.com) is an Austin-based software company that automates university career services offices. CSO's software manages all aspects of career centers, internship offices, student employment offices and volunteer centers at hundreds of universities in North America and the UK. CSO's academic clients use its web-based product to manage student, employer and faculty relationships, distribute job posting and career fair information to students, help employers to attend job fairs and interview students on-campus, and find full- and part-time jobs for students and alumni. CSO serves over 500 campuses and over one million college students per year.

Leepfrog Technologies (www.leepfrog.com) is a software development firm, offering a content management system, a catalog management system, a high-volume email delivery system, and other campus-oriented technologies.

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New Affiliates

InCommon welcomes the first two members of the new Affiliates Program, which provides the research and education community a way to connect with partners able to help build the necessary underlying infrastructure that supports federated access. www.incommon.org/affiliate

Unicon, Inc., is a leading provider of IT consulting services for the education market, specializing in using open source technologies to deliver flexible and cost-effective systems in the areas of enterprise portals, LMS, authentication, video, calendaring, email, and collaboration. Unicon services for Shibboleth Federated Single Sign-On Service include implementation planning, branding, installation, configuration, custom development, mentoring and support. www.unicon.net.

AegisUSA is an identity management solution provider with experience with more than 60 clients. AegisUSA's solutions include identity appliances, identity assessments, and custom implementations for Oracle, Sun, Microsoft, and open source software. The AegisUSA Federated Identity Appliance for Education provides turnkey, production-ready infrastructure necessary to enable federated SSO with members of the InCommon Federation. www.aegisusa.com.

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