Cohortium Goals and Outcomes

  • Help you get MFA deployed within your institution, and for federated services, where it is needed.
  • Identify a key body of use cases and applications where MFA deployment is particularly critical.
  • Identify and resolve technical and policy questions around the use and integration of MFA technologies with a variety of authentication frameworks, applications, cloud services, communities, and Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) environments, leading to a set of MFA deployment roadmaps for institutions.
  • Identify and resolve technical and policy issues related to federation of Identity Providers that have implemented MFA technologies.
  • Produce integration strategies and plugins for the effective use of MFA with the Shibboleth and CAS SSO solutions.
  • Leverage the experience and expertise of the pilot institutions, the work and support of the Cohortium, the technical work around MFA integration, and the licensing efforts of the Internet2 NET+ initiative to launch significantly more deployments of MFA across the spectrum of Higher Educational institutions.
  • Produce analyses and summaries of the experiences, success factors, lessons learned, and benefits and ROI of MFA based on the deployments of the pilot and Cohortium institutions. Including a focus on factors affecting MFA deployments within institutions such as the audience, scale of deployment, target applications and services, authentication frameworks (e.g SSO), MFA technology, large number of remote users/distance learners, and/or the existing environment (e.g. legacy MFA already in use).
  • Create a "MFA for Higher Education" web resource site that will provide a lasting and living set of resources and roadmaps that captures the richness of use cases, requirements, MFA technologies and integration strategies, costs and ROI, planning documents, implementation and deployment strategies, training and support plans and materials, and outreach examples (e.g. news releases, ads, videos, social marketing strategies) generated by the participants.
  • Summarize what you (your institution) got out of your involvement in the MFA Cohortium.

Ultimately, we succeed if participation in the Cohortium enables institutions to be closer to significant use of MFA across their campus by the time the Cohortium ends. That we've "moved the needle" in the use of MFA in higher education, and that we've created a set of lasting resources that helps any institution successfully deploy MFA.

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