This article was originally written by Laura Durnford for the GÉANT Community Blog. European webinar series on trust & identity launched. The ability to use a trusted online identity to share data and access resources has been of growing importance…
This article was originally posted by Gerben Venekamp in SURF’s Innovation Blog What are Federations and why does research need them? Today, research for a number of disciplines is conducted more in collaborations and less in small individual projects. The…
Technical architects within research and e-infrastructures and scientific communities are invited to give feedback on technical recommendations and guidelines documents produced in the Authentication and Authorisation in Research Collaborations (AARC) project. The documents will remain open for comments until the…
Passionate and fruitful discussions during the AARC project’s final meeting of 2016 showed the value of face-to-face gatherings. Kindly hosted by CERN on 29 November to 1 December, the meeting agenda was packed with sessions reviewing the project’s strategic direction…
Communities that are designing and implementing their Authentication and Authorisation Infrastructures (AAI) would often appreciate some guidance. One such community is the Helix Nebula Initiative: “a partnership between industry, space and science to establish a dynamic ecosystem, benefiting from open…
During the past year the AARC project and partners have been working to provide solutions to help research collaborations adopt federated access. After a little more than one year in the project, we reflect in a mini-series of blogs on how…
The training workshop Federate to Win! took place on the 28th of June 2016 in Helsinki, during the LIBER Annual Conference 2016. The aim of the workshop was to allow participants to gain an insight on the benefits of federated…
AARC is now entering its second year. And as all little toddlers do, it has taken the first steps to finally walk on its own! On 27-28 June the achievements of the AARC (Authentication and Authorisation for Research and Collaboration)…
Whilst the increasing scale and connectedness of R&E federations is extremely valuable for collaboration, it does expose an inviting new vector of attack for malicious actors. A single compromised account may provide an entry point to this global network of…
This blog post below has been written by Andrew Cormack (JISC). Becasue of its relevance, it deserves as much visibility as possible. Please note that the original post is online at: Andrew’s Blog [this article is based on the…
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