IAM Online: "The Multi-factor Authentication (MFA) Cohortium – What is it and what do we hope to accomplish?"

  • When: Wednesday, Sept. 11, 3pm EDT
  • Who: To be given by Mike Grady, David Walker, and Eric Goodman

Abstract: The Multi-factor Authentication (MFA) Cohortium has the goal of advancing the deployment of MFA at Higher Education institutions. It is one of several focus areas of the Internet2 Scalable Privacy project, itself a federally-funded pilot within the National Strategy for Trusted Identities in Cyberspace (NSTIC) White House initiative. The MFA Cohortium consists of about 40 institutions collaborating to help each other understand the business case, technologies, deployment models, issues, costs, requirements, ROI, etc. around deploying MFA as a key component of our authentication & authorization strategies. We'll talk about the context of the MFA Cohortium, its organization, its goals and work schedule, and some specific documents & artifacts that are already in the works.

  • Intros
  • Context of the Cohortium
    • NSTIC and Scalable Privacy
    • MFA focus
  • What the Cohortium is & how it is organized
    • Goals & Success Criteria
    • Work Schedule
  • Current documents/artifacts that are "in the works"
    • List of "issues identified/lessons to learn" (presented at the July IDESG meeting)
    • Alternative Strategies document
    • Decision tree document?
    • Business case template/Justifications for Multifactor
    • Deployment strategies
    • Technology artifacts?
      • Patterns of integration
      • Technologies assessment matrix; comparative analysis/review of the various security properties of MFA technologies
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