Federations 101: The U.T. System Identity Management Federation

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Federations 101: The U.T. System Identity Management Federation. Internet2 Member Meeting Fall 2006 Paul Caskey. Agenda. Background What have we done? How did we do it? Why did we do it? How do we govern it? What does the future hold?. Background. 16 Institutions 9 academic 6 health - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

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Federations 101: The U.T. System Identity Management Federation

Internet2 Member Meeting

Fall 2006

Paul Caskey

Agenda

• Background

• What have we done?

• How did we do it?

• Why did we do it?

• How do we govern it?

• What does the future hold?

Background

• 16 Institutions 9 academic 6 health 1 System Administration

• 16 unique organizations, budgets, problems, ideas

• Drivers for change: Collaboration Shared Services Compliance Reduced sign-on

What have we done?

• Established the U.T. System Identity Management Federation 16 UT institutions Federation and Member (IdP and SP) policies Shibboleth/SAML VeriSign PKI

How did we do it?

• IdM Statement of Direction• NMI-EDIT “Extending The Reach” grant• Shibboleth IdP InstallFest and SP Fest (a year

later)• Shibb’d some low-risk apps (guest wireless,

financial reporting)• Now have about 10 apps, including student

couponing, legal tracking, research tracking, collaborative funding, and more)

• Currently in production, but still a long way to go

Why did we do it?

• We felt it best to address IdM on an administrative boundary - could happen quicker if we do it within the system.

• We had an established organizational and governance structure throughout UT System and wanted to use it for IdM

• We want to strive for providing infrastructure and policy to meet higher LoAs throughout UT System

How do we govern it?

• UT Federation Executive Committee

• UT System Office of Internal Audit

• Institutional Internal Audit offices

• Technical and Policy committees

• Student project :)

What does the future hold?

• Maturity (policy revisions, support models, VOs, etc)

• Higher LoAs • More apps (and more important ones)

• Inter-federation (TIGRE, HAM-TMC, TDL, etc.)

Thank you!

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