Identity Future

update 11 April 2006: we’re told this event has been cancelled.

New England chapter of the American Society for Information Science and Technology (NEASIS&T) is hosting an event titled Who Am I and How Do You Know For Sure? Identity Management in a Web 2.0 World on Thursday, 20 April 2006 at MIT, Cambridge, MA.

How many times a day do you enter usernames and passwords?
How do you keep track of them all?
How often do you transfer private personal, financial or company data over the web?
How secure do you feel about it?
How well does your organization protect the private information of your consumers?
How much of your identity is “out there” for the taking?
How many times do you ask your consumers to identify themselves each time they use your services?
Do you wish there was a better way?

So do Ben Adida, Dick Hardt and Paul Trevithick­ and they’re working on it. Join the New England chapter of the American Society for Information Science and Technology (NEASIS&T) for an invigorating day with three leading innovators at the forefront of identity and security in today’s giddy environment of promiscuous information exchange over the Web. You will learn what the technological, practical and social challenges are for individuals and organizations in managing logins and the transfer of sensitive data over the web. You will get a sense of the range of initiatives exploring solutions and what the barriers are. You will hear from an academic studying cryptography and the semantic web as they apply to public policy issues like voting and health records (Adida). You will hear from a vendor developing solutions for organizations and individuals (Hardt). And you will hear about efforts to develop open source technology to give users more control over their online identity, profile and relationship information (Trevithick).

NEASIS&T is pleased to present another timely program of leading speakers and panel discussion. Join us!

Dick Hardt’s fame in the identity management world skyrocketed with the popularity of uniquely engaging presentation style. Paul Trevithick is growing famous for his work with Higgins.

Additional information about this event is available on the NEASIS&T website.

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Educause is hosting CAMP Shibboleth: Enabling Campus and Federated Single Sign-On on June 26–28, 2006 in at the Wyndham Burlington, in Burlington, Vermont.

Unsure about what the Shibboleth System is about and how it can be used in production on your campus? Looking for a Web single sign-on package that can be used both for local applications and in federated environments?

Internet2’s Shibboleth is being deployed nationally and internationally to solve real-world problems associated with intra- and interinstitutional authentication and authorization. For Web-based access control, it leverages campus identity and access management infrastructures to authenticate individuals and then sends information about them to the resource site, enabling the resource provider to make an informed authorization decision.

Many consider the Shibboleth System to be federating software, which it is; however, more and more campuses are asking what value they get, if any, from deploying separate intra- and intercampus single sign-on systems. Increasingly, these campuses are deploying Shibboleth for both purposes. It’s a tool that enables Web authentication and provides authorization information for applications and services, independent of who’s offering them.

This CAMP will offer concrete practice and real-world experience from institutions running Shibboleth in production for controlling access to both on and off-campus services. Featured in this workshop will be an Application Showcase where campuses and vendors will demonstrate the Shibboleth System in action.

Both IT management and technical staff will find sessions of interest on the program and guidance for running Shibboleth in production. Participants will:

CAMP Shibboleth: Enabling Campus and Federated Single Sign-On, June 26-28 in Burlington, Vermont, will give you the opportunity to:

• Learn strategies for managing identity and privilege information used by the Shibboleth System
• Understand the management issues involved in running a Shibboleth-enabled learning management system
• Discover Shibboleth’s value as a campus Web sign-on package
• Learn about SAML 2.0, the mechanism that carries the identity information
• Find out the questions you should ask your information/library vendors about SAML and Shibboleth System support
• Hear practical advice for running the Shibboleth System on server clusters

Participants are encouraged to have a sound knowledge of IdM to learn the most from the sessions. Those interested in knowing more about IdM can review the Enterprise Directory and Authentication Implementation roadmaps.

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