Authorization

EDUCAUSE Library Items for Authorization

Enterprise Authorization: Processes and Policies for Role-Based Access

January 1, 2003

Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) is a service that only a few campuses have succeeded in offering. This session offers case studies from the major pioneers in this effort, Stanford University and M…

A Unified Digital Campus: Marshall University's Solution

January 1, 2003

Marshall University evolved from providing Web-based services requiring separate authentication processes and ongoing data synchronization schemes to a unified digital campus. This presentation ill…

Realization of a Vision: Authentication and Authorization Infrastructure for the Swiss Higher Education Community

January 1, 2003

Our vision is to build a virtual community that will allow all persons associated with the higher education system in Switzerland to access its electronic resources in a secure manner. The importan…

From Chad to LDAP: Twenty Years of Authorization, Authentication, and Directory Services at UAB

January 1, 2003

In the early 80s, the University of Alabama at Birmingham began implementing authentication and authorization services that have evolved into a full-fledged directory "cloud" supporting L…

Frontiers of Authentication and Authorization

January 1, 2003

Our understanding of the architectures for campus authentication and authorization services is increasing as several leading-edge efforts bear fruit. WebISO activities, new basic authentication tec…

Intercampus Authorization: Shibboleth

January 1, 2003

Shibboleth, an architecture and software for Web-based inter-institutional authorization, is gaining momentum in higher education and in research communities. This session covers its architecture a…

Web Portal Security from A to Z

January 1, 2003

Shands Teaching Hospital at the University of Florida developed my Medical Information Center (myMedIC), a Web portal that allows healthcare providers and their patients to securely access highly s…

The Next-Generation Infrastructure

January 1, 2002

Higher education needs a next-generation infrastructure that will allow colleges and universities to be user-centered, to establish and maintain lifelong relationships with individuals, and to prov…

The Emergence of Identity Service Providers

March 5, 2002

To manage today's complex set of networked relationships and processes a new category of service provider is emerging—the identity service provider. Higher education has many needs for ide…

A Bridge for Trusted Electronic Communications in Higher Education and the Federal Government

January 1, 2002

The Higher Education Bridge Certification Authority (HEBCA) holds promise for enabling trusted electronic communications between campuses and government agencies using standard campus systems for…