Federated Identity, InCommon, and Enabling Federated Access to Research Services
Ann West, AVP for Trust & Identity at Internet2 and Executive Director of the InCommon Federation
Jim Basney, Senior Research Scientist, National Center for Supercomputer Applications
Tom Barton, Senior Consultant for Cybersecurity & Data Privacy, UChicago & Internet2
The panel will review the concepts of federated identities, authentication, and the role attributes play in managing access to services. They'll further describe how the InCommon Federation and eduGAIN enable academic collaboration across local, regional, national, and international scales, discuss technical alternatives for participation in InCommon, and delve a bit into how research communities and research cyber infrastructures manage federated access to their services.
Learning outcomes
- Understanding of the concepts of federated identities, authentication, and the role attributes play in managing access to services.
- How InCommon Federation and eduGAIN enable academic collaboration across local, regional, national, and international scales, and technical alternatives for participation in InCommon
- How research communities and research cyber infrastructures manage federated access to their services