EDUCAUSE Live! Spotlight Series August 8, 2008 1:00 p.m. ET (12:00 p.m. CT, 11:00 a.m. MT, 10:00 a.m. PT); runs one hour

Spotlight On Identity Management

Special Guests

Brendan Bellina
Identity Services Architect and Manager of Enterprise Middleware Development, Information Technology Services
University of Southern California

Brendan Bellina is the identity services architect and manager of enterprise middleware development for USC. He began his career in corporate IT in 1982 and has been in higher education IT since 1999. A frequent presenter on identity and access management (IAM) and middleware technologies at regional and national conferences, Bellina has edited and authored white papers on directory services for the NSF Middleware Initiative (NMI) and is the author of utilities for collecting performance statistics from LDAP directories and Shibboleth identity providers. He is the chair of the Internet2 Middleware Architecture Committee for Education (MACE) Directory Services Working Group and is currently developing USC's IAM system and global directory service and managing the Enterprise Middleware Development group with responsibility for USC's person registry, global directory service, computer accounts system, guest/affiliate system (iVIP), Shibboleth Identity Provider, and integration with Google Applications for Education.

Margaret Harrington
Director of the Office of Organization Improvement Services
University of Southern California

Margaret Harrington leads the policy development process and operational implementation for USC’s university-wide identity management program. She directs Organization Improvement Services, a unit providing leadership and support for efforts to enhance management processes and service delivery throughout the university. Harrington has guided improvement initiatives in research administration, student financial services, curriculum review processes, and other areas. She also serves on the board of directors of the National Consortium for Continuous Improvement in Higher Education.

Summary

Your host, Steve Worona, will be joined by Brendan Bellina and Margaret Harrington and the topic will be "Identity Management at USC: Collaboration, Governance, and Access."

Identity and access management (IAM) at USC has been a policy-driven, grassroots effort for the past five years. During that time collaborative committees with representatives from many academic and administrative units have enabled the accelerated growth of applications relying on identity data while governing the release of that data. With the backing of the university data stewards in the offices of the registrar, provost, and personnel services , policies have been implemented regarding the release of identifying sensitive information to both internal departments and external vendors. The speakers will discuss the composition of these committees, the governance policies that have been implemented, and some of the dozens of applications that have been enabled securely through this process.

Related EDUCAUSE Resources

• Data Classification Policies
• Data Security
• Identity Management
• Archives of past EDUCAUSE Live! Spotlight Series seminars

Additional Resources

• Global Directory Services, University of Southern California