UK Access Management Federation
Audience Likely to be of interest to Directors of IT,
IS, MIS, converged Library and Information Services, Chief Information
Officers, those with responsibility for institutional Information
Strategies
Session Chair John
Robinson Services Operations Director, JISC
Presenters
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Henry Hughes, Middleware Group Manager, UKERNA
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Mark
Williams, Access Management Outreach Coordinator, JISC
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Masha Garibyan, PERSEUS
project, LSE
Objectives of the session
JISC has initiated a Transition programme to move from Athens as its
preferred Access Management solution to the UK Access Management Federation
which implements federated access management across the entire UK education
sector based on the Internet2 implementation of SAML (Secure Assertion
Markup Language) known as Shibboleth(R). The Federation will be
operated by UKERNA on behalf of JISC and Becta. During 2006-8 JISC
will fund the Federation alongside its Athens service. From August
2008 Athens will become an outsourced identity provider within the
Federation, available to members of the community on a subscription basis
and JISC. with Becta, will fund the operation of the UK Access Management
Federation under and SLA with UKERNA.
This session will outline the reasoning behind JISC's decision, the
development work which has brought the new technology to the point where it
is ready for service and the range of measures and activities which the
JISC is undertaking to enable sites to become Identity Providers within the
Federation and support them thereafter. Particular attention will be paid
to the technological and business drivers for the transition and the new
functionalities which SAML and federated access management enable.
Format of the session
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Introduction by John Robinson
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Preview of the JISC introduction to Federated Access Management Animation
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Presentation outlining the UK Access Management Federation by Henry
Hughes
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Panel discussion based on community questions concerned with joining the
UK Federation
Issues to be covered will include:
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proof of concept through the early-adopter and technology projects
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case studies showing the benefits of federated access management
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work being done to research and identify best practice in Enterprise
Directory Services (possibly a joint project with UCISA)
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place of Athens in the Federation
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extension of the Federation across the entire UK Education sector
Attendees are invited to email any questions or issues that they would like
to see discussed in this session to: jisc-access-management@jiscmail.ac.uk
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