[Bessig] AGU Fall Meeting Workshop on Identity and Access Management (IAM)

[Anne Wilson]

Hi BESSIG!

I would like to bring to your attention a free one day workshop associated with the 2017 AGU Fall Meeting in New Orleans on Identity and Access Management (IAM).  

Why care about IAM?   Because today’s collaborative science depends on secure, controlled, convenient access to project resources.   The need for quality network security has never been more apparent than today, and will only grow in the future.   Projects today span individuals, organizations, instruments, services, and geographic locations.    The difficulty or ease of a project’s ability to manage its users and their access to resources can significantly impact a project’s success.   At the same time, agencies are requiring increasingly greater security measures.   

Fortunately, tools are being developed by knowledgable people that address both technical and policy issues for IAM.   This workshop is a rare opportunity to learn about those tools from world class experts in the field.  

The workshop occurs in New Orleans on Sunday, 12/10, before AGU.   Further details are provided below.   Please feel free to forward this information.   

Best regards,

Anne Wilson
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Identity and Access Management for Research Organizations
An AGU Affiliated Workshop


The workshop will provide an overview of identity and access management(IAM) issues including single sign-on (SSO) facing research collaborations and demonstrate IAM solutions available to both large and small collaborations using interactive tutorials.


The National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) and the CILogon project at the University of Illinois and the Center for Trustworthy Scientific Cyberinfrastructure (CTSC) at Indiana University are sponsoring the workshop. Dr. Jim Basney and Dr. Scott Koranda will present.


The workshop will be held at the Hilton New Orleans Riverside on Sunday, December 10, 2017 from 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM. There is no registration fee. Participation is limited to the first 20 registrants. To register visit


https://www.eventbrite.com/e/identity-and-access-management-for-research-organizations-tickets-39183252162


Participants should bring a laptop computer with the Firefox web browser and an SSH client (eg. OpenSSH or Putty) installed to participate in the interactive tutorials.  Breakfast and lunch are not included.