October 6 - 8, 2008 ,
5 p.m. (M) - 1 p.m. (W)
Lafayette College
For participating colleges interested in implementing the Shibboleth federated identity management technology, and planning for campus policy and process decisions related to adoption and germane to small, independent colleges and universities. Campuses will benefit from sending teams of two from different campus roles, including technologists, CIOs, network directors and other network staff, registrars, librarians, and others involved in managing student and staff identity information. (7 program units. Registration deadline: Friday, August 15, 2008)
Prior to this event, participants are encouraged to familiarize themselves with single-sign on and Shibboleth, including http://shibboleth.internet2.edu/ and https://spaces.internet2.edu/display/InCCollaborate/A+Bedtime+Story+for+Student+Services.
Workshop participants will work to prepare their campuses to plan for and implement the Shibboleth federated identity management technology, and to understand and plan for the campus policy and process issues and decisions that will accompany using such a technology. Participants will address topics such as: a conceptual overview of Shibboleth, necessary expertise and infrastructure for adoption, Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML) and other key technologies, policy concerns, and future directions for the technology. Participants will leave the workshop prepared to implement Shibboleth and lead campus conversations about what this technology means for campus operations and policies.
An open source middleware software developed by Internet2, Shibboleth provides important infrastructure for technical resource-sharing between institutions that allows collaborating institutions to leverage each other’s technical services and resources in an environment designed to address technologically key security and privacy concerns that prevent sharing technology services and information resources. Shibboleth is an architecture and open-source implementation for federated identity-based authentication and authorization that uses the SAML. Campuses can use Shibboleth to access remote services and resources while taking a pro-active approach to managing the privacy of local users and the security of their identity and data. Campuses can also use Shibboleth to offer remote access to local resources with stronger assurances about security and while allowing the remote campus or organization to manage authorization. Shibboleth is a key part of implementing inter-institutional and cross-domain single sign-on.
Thanks to all who responded to our online survey, which was designed to garner community input on the current state of Identity Management practices at smaller college campuses and to help shape NITLE’s professional development in this area. A preliminary agenda for this meeting is now available (.pdf, 24 KB). Please note that the agenda remains under development.
Those interested in contributing to and following on-going discussion of Shibboleth and identity management as well as discussion focused on core campus technology services such as financial and ERP systems, networking technologies, security, and other central campus software systems and practices are encouraged to subscribe to the Core Services Discussion. This NITLE peer community and e-mail list provides NITLE participating institutions with a place to connect and problem-solve around these specific topics. To subscribe, please send a note with "subscribe nitle-coreservices" in the subject line to participate@nitle.org.
Also, NITLE has been working with a group of participants to develop materials to help small, independent colleges
Special thanks to the following individuals for their contributions in this area:
Materials developed by this group will be made available to the community before the October program.
Interested faculty and staff from participating colleges: To participate in this program, please contact your liaison, who will let you know whether your institution has program units available to support your participation. If so, your liaison will contact NITLE to register you to participate. (Note that campus policies on the use of program units vary. Liaisons, please register participants by e-mailing participate@nitle.org.)
If no units are currently available, your liaison--following campus policy--may purchase them on your behalf or may recommend that you or your department purchase them. If you or your department chooses to purchase program units for your use, please make the purchase and register for this program by sending an e-mail message to participate@nitle.org, including the program title and your name, job title, and e-mail address. NITLE will send you an invoice and confirmation of your registration.
For specific information about this workshop's program/content, please contact Eric Jansson.
For logistical questions, please contact Terri Coahran.
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