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InCommon Assurance Call/Webinar June 7, 2017 Addresses Baseline Expectations Implementation

View the slides and view/listen to the recording (Adobe Connect)

InCommon Assurance Call/Webinar March 1, 2017 Addresses 800-63

Download the slides (PDF)

View/Listen to the recording (Adobe Connect)

InCommon Assurance Advisory Committee Minutes Now Publicly Available

Starting, January 2017, InCommon Assurance Advisory Committee Minutes are publicly available here.

REFEDs Assurance Work Discussed on InCommon Assurance Call Jan. 4, 2017

View the recorded call/webinar

See full info here

Baseline Expectations for Trust in Federation

Final Version of Baseline Expectations, September 30, 2016

Assurance Community Call -  Oct. 5, 2016

• • Recording of the Baseline Expectations webinar (Adobe Connect)
  • Baseline Expectation presentation slides, Oct. 5, 2016

Consultation Closed on Aug. 10, 2016

InCommon MFA Interoperability Profile Working Group

The mission of the working group was to develop and document requirements for creating and implementing an interoperability profile to allow the community to leverage MFA provided by an InCommon Identity Provider by allowing SPs to rely on a standard syntax and semantics regarding MFA. See the working group wiki and the Final Work Products.

InCommon Silver with Active Directory Domain Services Cookbook for 1.2 Released

The final version of the InCommon Silver with Active Directory Domain Services Cookbook is available now! For an overview of the important bits, see the May 2014 webinar recording. 

Reading Bronze: Understanding the InCommon Profile (recordings available)

InCommon sponsored a community reading of the Bronze InCommon Assurance Profile to aid in the understanding and intent of the requirements. There were four calls during Dec. 2013 and Jan. 2014.  The calls have now concluded. Thanks to all who participated for the excellent comments and questions.

Recordings are available at this link.

Assurance Program

Specification Documents

• Identity Assurance Assessment Framework; Version 1.2 Feb 2013 [PDF]
• Identity Assurance Profiles; Version 1.2 Feb 2013 [PDF]
• Alternative Means; Multi-factor Authentication for Silver certification
• DIFFS with 1.1: Framework and Profiles
• Deprecated Versions

Alternative Means

• Alternative Means History

Community Resources

Toolkits

• Auditor

Technical InterOp

• Assurance Technical Implementation Considerations - Draft Guidance for IdPs and SPs.
• See Implementation Examples
• Bronze and Silver AuthnContext Schema

Community Contributions

• AD and Silver Cookbook, Multi-factor Considerations, and  case studies.
• Assurance Implementation Example from Virginia Tech 
• Harvard University Executive Summary of achieving Bronze Certification, Bronze Self-Certification Document, and Enhancing the Harvard Authentication System to Support InCommon Bronze
         
• Add your Approach to Supporting the Federal Privacy Requirements
• more community contributions

Webinars and Presentations

• Baseline Expectations Implementation - June 7, 2017

• NIST 800-63 / Digital Identity Guidelines - March 1, 2017

• REFEDs Assurance Working Groups, Jan 4, 2017 - slides and Adobe Connect here

• Baseline Expectations and their Implementation, Oct 5, 2016 (Slides) and (AdobeConnect)

• Baseline Expectations – Last Call for Comments, Aug. 3, 2016 (link to slides and recording)
• Baseline Expectations for Trust in Federation, July 6, 2016 (link to slides and recording)
• Sirtfi for Security Incidents in a Federated Context, May 4, 2016 (link to slides and recording)

• Multifactor Authentication Interop Profile Working Group Update, April, 6, 2016 (link to slides and recording)

• Developments in Assurance: Insights from Across the Pond, Feb. 3, 2016 (link to slides and recording)

• Assurance Survey Results and Baseline Standards to replace the POP, at Nov. 2015 Assurance call (link to slides and recording)
   
• Duo with Shibboleth v3, from U. Chicago and Unicon, at Sept 2015 Assurance call (link to slides and recording)
• Flexible Vetting: using a point system to verify identity, at May 2015 Assurance call. (link to slides and recording)
• Password Reset practices, at April 2015 Assurance call.  (link to slides and recording)
• InCommon Bronze Approaches from GW and Harvard, recorded March 4, 2015. See recorded Webinar. See slides (PDF).
• InCommon Bronze and Security, IAM Online with two Bronze case studies (Todd Haddaway, UMBC and Sharon Welna, University of Nebraska Medical Center), (webinar recorded October 15, 2014  and slide deck)
• Successful Security Practices: Counting Failed Login Attempts, PDF slide Deck, Webinar recorded Sept. 3, 2014
• Better Practices Build Better Systems: Identity Assurance, recorded presentation by Ann West, Internet2, and Ron Thielen, U. Chicago, at EDUCAUSE Security Professionals Conference, May 2014 
• Open for Business: InCommon Identity Assurance Program (PDF Silde Deck. Webinar recorded February 29, 2012)
• Grab the Bronze and Silver Ring: Identity Assurance Progress (PDF Slide Deck. Webinar recorded June 15, 2011)

Additional Resources

InCommon Assurance Program website