CAMP: Charting Your Authentication Roadmap

Are you concerned about appropriate access to electronic resources and anticipate the need to revisit your campus authentication processes? Do your faculty and students use online course resources that are developed and offered by other institutions? Do your researchers collaborate with external colleagues or need to manage others' access to project data?

Consider attending CAMP: Charting Your Authentication Roadmap to learn more about how to position your campus authentication and related identity management processes to support secure access when working with sister institutions, research collaborators and other external partners, industry, and the federal government.

The recently released Enterprise Authentication Implementation Roadmap will provide background for the program and help you work with your campus stakeholders to plan and develop appropriate processes and architectures for more secure authentication. In particular, the attendees will leave with practical experience in developing a plan, including:

• Analyzing how your institution manages authentication including the three areas of policy, process, and technology.
• Identifying points of weakness and set priorities for where your efforts should be focused in the three areas.

The program will include both management and technical topics such as:

• Risk assessments and mapping outcomes to requirements.
• Diverse governance models.
• Levels of assurance and accompanying business process and technical aspects.
• Requirements for participating in cyberinfrastucture projects enabled by Grids.

This workshop will offer education and guidance to higher education CIOs and IT managers, project managers, middleware architects, and administrative staff involved in a technical, management, or stakeholder position. Institutions are encouraged to send a cross-functional team from the policy, process, and technology areas to work through the planning exercises together.

Participants are encouraged to have a working knowledge of Identity Management (IdM) to learn the most from the sessions. Those interested in knowing more about IdM can review the Enterprise Directory Implementation Roadmap or the Getting Started section of the NMI-EDIT Web site.

A note to previous CAMP attendees: If you attended the CAMP: Leveraging Campus Authentication Across Boundaries in February 2006 and are now working through requirements or implementation, consider attending this workshop for concrete details on how to make progress.

CAMP is sponsored by the National Science Foundation Middleware Initiative-Enterprise and Desktop Integration Technologies (NMI-EDIT) Consortium: EDUCAUSE and Internet2. Additional support was provided by the National Science Foundation Cooperative Agreement OCI-0330626.

For more information on the CAMP sponsors, please see the NMI-EDIT Web site.