InCommon Assurance Community Wiki

InCommon Assurance Call February 3, 2016 Focused on Developments from Across the Pond

InCommon AAC Seeks New Members

InCommon MFA Interoperability Profile Working Group

The mission of the working group is 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 space.

Guidance for Supporting SHA-2 Signed Assertions

In August 2014, InCommon released Migrating to SHA-2 to help certified campuses support SHA-2 signed assertions.

In June 2014, InCommon Steering approved the (now expired) "Alternative Means for Bronze and Silver Requirement to Discontinue SHA-1 Encryption for SAML Assertions" to ease the transition for Identity Provider Operators that had been certified by the InCommon Assurance Program or were wishing to apply for certification by January 15, 2015.

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

Alternative Means

Multi-Context Broker Model

The Multi-Context Broker (MCB) was released in February of 2014 to improve support for multi-factor authentication and assurance profiles in version 2.x of the Shibboleth IdP.  MCB functionality is also in the more recent Shibboleth IdP version 3.x.  See Multi-Context Broker for more more background and information on how to configure and deploy the MCB for either version of the Shibboleth IdP.

Community Resources

Toolkits

Technical InterOp

Community Contributions

Webinars and Presentations

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

  • Assurance Survey Results and Baseline Standards to replace the POP, at Nov. 2015 Assurance call (link to slides and recording here)
     
  • Duo with Shibboleth v3, from U. Chicago and Unicon, at Sept 2015 Assurance call (link to slides and recording here)
  • Flexible Vetting: using a point system to verify identity, at May 2015 Assurance call. (link to slides and recording here)
  • Password Reset practices, at April 2015 Assurance call.  (link to slides and recording here)
  • 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


InCommon Assurance Web page

InCommon Certified Identity Providers

Federal ICAM Approved Identity Providers

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4 Nov 2015 (webinar on survey results and baseline practices)

2 Sept 2015 (webinar on Shib IdP v3 and Duo MFA)

8 July 2015

6 May 2015 (flexible vetting)

1 April 2015 (password reset)

4 March 2015

5 Nov 2014
15 Oct 2014
4 Sep 2014
9 Jul 2014
19 March 2014 (presentation on Multi-Context Broker)
12 Feb 2014
4 Dec 2013
6 Nov 2013
2 Oct 2013
4 Sep 2013
7 Aug 2013
10 July 2013
5 June 2013
8 May 2013
3 April 2013
6 March 2013
13 Feb 2013
9 Jan 2013
12 Dec 2012