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Balancing Technology and Privacy: The Directory Conundrum

January 19, 2007 | A session at the EDUCAUSE Mid-Atlantic Regional Conference 2007

When the University of Maryland implemented a directory to facilitate authentication and access to services, we struggled with balancing the need to keep data private against making data accessible…

Crafting Collaborations: An Art or a Science? - Sponsored by MPC Computers

March 21, 2005 | A session at the EDUCAUSE Midwest Regional Conference 2005

The ability to connect content, people, and new ideas is a growing necessity for IT professionals. This panel will look at collaboration efforts within and across a statewide community college syst…

Designing High Availability Networks, Systems, and Software for the University Environment

January 1, 2004

Users expect that online services will be 100 percent available. The challenge is to cost-effectively provide high availability applications, and thus underlying middleware and infrastructure. At P…

Federated Identity Management: The Shibboleth Approach

March 22, 2005 | A session at the EDUCAUSE Midwest Regional Conference 2005

The Shibboleth software system enables Web-based, interinstitutional resource sharing by leveraging campus identity management systems. Creating a larger trust community of collaborating institutio…

Federated Identity Management: The Shibboleth Approach

March 8, 2005 | A session at the NERCOMP Annual Conference 2005

The Shibboleth system simplifies the management of Web-based interinstitutional resource sharing by leveraging campus identity management systems and the trust framework provide by federations. Thi…

Federated Identity: Leveraging Shibboleth to Access On- and Off-Campus Resources

January 16, 2008 | A session at the EDUCAUSE Mid-Atlantic Regional Conference 2008

More and more institutions are using Shibboleth to address both their on-campus and third-party access requirements. This case study will provide information about federated identity management (sp…

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…

Middleware Implementation Case Studies

January 1, 2001

Early Adopters, an Internet2 Middleware Initiative, is a group of 11 institutions of higher education working to provide a test bed for the deployment of middleware technologies. Early Adopter part…

Middleware--It's Better Than Big E-mail Attachments: Lessons from the NMI TestBed

January 1, 2003

This talk will explain key middleware concepts and relate the University of Alabama at Birmingham's experience using the National Science Foundation's Middleware Initiative ( NMI ) recomm…

Middleware: Addressing the Top IT Issues on Campus

January 1, 2003

Offering online services tailored to diverse audiences is difficult and time consuming, given the complexity of managing the accompanying access, security, and privacy issues for each application a…