Federated Identity Management Systems Recognized with the 2009 EDUCAUSE Catalyst Award

Created by Valerie M. Vogel (EDUCAUSE) on September 10, 2009

The EDUCAUSE Catalyst Award highlights IT-based innovations and initiatives that provide groundbreaking solutions to major challenges in higher education or change prevailing conditions in remarkable ways. In 2009, EDUCAUSE recognizes federated identity management systems with this award.

"Federated" identity describes the technologies, standards, and use cases that enable the portability of identity information across otherwise autonomous security domains (such as colleges and universities). The ultimate goal of identity federation is to enable users at one institution to securely and seamlessly access data or systems at another, without the need for completely redundant user administration. These services allow staff, students, and researchers to access online resources to which they are entitled, such as research data, virtual environments, institutional repositories, online grant applications, and other resources, regardless of location.

Although many relevant entities exist, the field as a whole acknowledges the InCommon Federation and the Internet2 Middleware Initiative in the United States; JISC, the Joint Information Systems Committee in the United Kingdom; and the SWITCH Federation in Switzerland, as exemplars of the many organizations managing federated identity systems worldwide.

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		Federated Identity Management Systems Recognized with the 2009 EDUCAUSE Catalyst Award Created by Valerie M. Vogel (EDUCAUSE) on September 10, 2009 The EDUCAUSE Catalyst Award highlights IT-based innovations and initiatives that provide groundbreaking solutions to major challenges in higher education or change prevailing conditions in remarkable ways. In 2009, EDUCAUSE recognizes federated identity management systems with this award. "Federated" identity describes the technologies, standards, and use cases that enable the portability of identity information across otherwise autonomous security domains (such as colleges and universities). The ultimate goal of identity federation is to enable users at one institution to securely and seamlessly access data or systems at another, without the need for completely redundant user administration. These services allow staff, students, and researchers to access online resources to which they are entitled, such as research data, virtual environments, institutional repositories, online grant applications, and other resources, regardless of location. Although many relevant entities exist, the field as a whole acknowledges the InCommon Federation and the Internet2 Middleware Initiative in the United States; JISC, the Joint Information Systems Committee in the United Kingdom; and the SWITCH Federation in Switzerland, as exemplars of the many organizations managing federated identity systems worldwide. Learn more about the 2009 EDUCAUSE Catalyst Award. Cybersecurity Initiative Announcements \| Cybersecurity \| Federated Identity Management \| Identity and Access Management Valerie's blog Login or register to post comments 98 reads
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