Federations: The New Infrastructure Speaker Name Here Date Here Speaker Name Here Date Here

DRAFT Today’s Agenda Just like our faculty and staff members, institutions have partners State and local National International Increasingly want to share and use online resources How can we do this efficiently and securely?

DRAFT Campus Partners and Collaborators One institution hosting course-content for others Libraries purchasing licenses from multiple vendors with specific access policies

DRAFT Research Partners and Collaborators Making resources available to project members at other schools Single sign-on across campus online services and national/international Grid environments GridShib Great Plains Network

DRAFT How can an institution support all these online relationships in an efficient and secure way? Federations

DRAFT What is a Federation? An association of organizations that come together to exchange information as appropriate about their users and resources in order to enable collaborations and transactions. Uses coordinated policy, technology, and business practices to establish baseline on which to exchange identity information

DRAFT Value of Membership Leverage campus identity infrastructure to enable single sign-on access to externally managed resources for Academic, Research, Government, and Business relationships Enable collaboration with all these partners by joining one national R&E federation

DRAFT Value of Membership Saves Time and money Increases Security and Privacy Opportunities Connects to international partners Federations in process or production in Australia, Finland, France, Netherlands, Norway, Switzerland, UK

DRAFT Before Federations

DRAFT After Federations

DRAFT Becoming a Member Get the institution’s Identity Management Infrastructure in shape Identification Authentication Authorization Accountability Involves technology, policy, and processes

DRAFT Join the US R&E Federation InCommon Uses identity-exchange standards Low policy, process, and technology requirements Evolving membership requirements Increased value of protected resources means higher-level of identity confidence for institutions accessing those resources

DRAFT Encourage Partners to Join One infrastructure services institutions and partners Keeps the identity data with the institution Requires fewer repositories of identity information Reduces the potential of identity spills

DRAFT Encourage Partners to Join Federation enables communities to share information about individuals’ identity, reducing the overall work required to maintain connections and reduce the friction in cross-community interactions. Burton Group, Federating a Distributed World: Asserting Next- Generation Identity Standards

DRAFT Transitions When should you start? When will you feel the pain? What’s available to help? Workshops Practice documents Roadmaps with policy and technology milestones Emerging community Open software and technologies

DRAFT Food for Thought… How many partnerships, access licenses, and collaborative relationships does your institution have? How much time are you spending managing access to each one and at what risk? Do you want to address these in the same way and save time and risk…..

DRAFT …for Your Partners As more and more companies in industry segments (such as outsourced employee benefits) start using federated identities, early adopters will often find competitive advantages while those who are late to the table scramble to catch up. Burton Group, Federated Identity

DRAFT …for Your Institution Federations take investment, which is indeed difficult given our tight funding. But as the pressures increase, our institution must have the flexibility to source services creatively and collaborate nationally and internationally to remain successful. Jerry Campbell, Chief Information Officer and University Librarian University of Southern California