Authentication

EDUCAUSE Library Items for Authentication

Balancing Security and Privacy in Times of Cyberterror

March 13, 2007 | A session at the EDUCAUSE Midwest Regional Conference 2007

Technology gives us the ability to create a surveillance society beyond anything Orwell could have imagined. Our limitations are no longer external but internal: We must choose how much privacy we&…

Seminar 02 - A Shibboleth Roadmap: Charting Your Course PLEASE NOTE: Separate registration and fee are required to attend this seminar.

March 12, 2007 | A session at the EDUCAUSE Midwest Regional Conference 2007

Web single sign-on (SSO) technology can simplify the user experience and improve Web security. But most software is limited to use within a campus, doesn't provision applications with identity…

Leveraging Your Existing Campus Systems to Access Partner Resources: The InCommon Federation

February 23, 2007 | A session at the EDUCAUSE Southwest Regional Conference 2007

Campuses can leverage investments in single sign-on systems to access external systems and information resources partners. This session will explain InCommon Federation participation, what it means…

Practical Tools for Implementing Authentication and Managing Authorization

February 22, 2007 | A session at the EDUCAUSE Southwest Regional Conference 2007

Identity management administers services around people rather than systems, but both users and managers struggle to coordinate credentials and access rights for multiple resources. This institution…

Balancing Privacy and Security in Times of Cyberterror

February 22, 2007 | A session at the EDUCAUSE Southwest Regional Conference 2007

Some 230 years ago, Patrick Henry said, "Give me liberty, or give me death!" Kansas Senator Patrick Roberts recently said, "You have no civil liberties if you're dead." Thi…

Starting Your Roadmap: Concepts and Terms

February 7, 2007

Before starting a journey, it's helpful to view the lay of the land and review what is involved. This session will offer an overview of the Enterprise Authentication Implementation Roadmap, th…

Using LoA: Management Issues

February 8, 2007

After establishing the desired level(s) of assurance needed by the campus, what are the management issues to consider? What change procedures must be in place? What are the issues associated with e…

Bringing it All Together: Charting Your Roadmap

February 8, 2007

From the previous exercise, participants may have determined that there is a gap between their current practice and what's required after doing the risk assessment and LoA determination. How d…

Scared Straight: The Need for Change

February 7, 2007

Today, additional internal and external factors have created new requirements that are forcing broader campus involvement in discussions of authentication-related policies and procedures. This sess…

Technical Issues with Establishing LoA

February 8, 2007

To prepare the technology architects and implementers, this session will provide a chance to explore topics such as architecting an authentication system to support a given LoA used by the federal …