Free webinar – Identity services overview from 3rd Party UK federation commercial identity providers







**Apologies for cross posting**







An informal webinar is being held on Tuesday 15th December at 4pm looking at some of the identity issues facing UK federation members and possible solutions offered by 3rd party identity providers operating in the area. Speakers from the UK federation, Overt software, Cirrus Identity and Digital Identity Ltd will be present.







Topics and speakers below and there will be an opportunity for Q&A.







Dr Rhys Smith- Chief Technical Architect, Trust & Identity. Jisc



·        Shibboleth V3 IdP



·        Statistics generation through Raptor











Mr Chris Andre- Technical Director, Overt Software



·        What is new in Shibboleth IdP v3?



·        Shibboleth IdP v2 to v3 upgrade path. Is going “Cloud” a better option?



·        What are the concerns for Service Providers and Publishers regarding Shibboleth IdP v3?



·        Shibboleth IdP v3 Load Balancing and Shibboleth/ADFS integration



·        Shibboleth IdP v3 statistics











Pete Birkinshaw – CEO Digital Identity Ltd

Indiid.net<http://indiid.net> is a new independent IdP based in the UK that provides a guest-IdP service for higher and further education. Indiid helps people outside academia to collaborate with your staff and students by giving them their own low-cost federated identity using Shibboleth software.



- A brief overview of Indiid.net<http://indiid.net> and how it can help

- On-boarding/Provisioning: Adding new external users - the process for them and for your organisation

- Identity Assurance: trusting online identities using two factor authentication and identity validation

- Virtual organisations and groups: a simple approach to access control

- Consent and data: Sharing and privacy for your external users

- Roadmap: New features due in 2016

- Q&A











Dedra Chamberlain – CEO Cirrus Identity



Cirrus Identity offers hosted identity solutions to help universities solve some of their thorny identity challenges. You'll hear about how Newcastle University is using the Cirrus Gateway to enable access to their Virtual Research Environment for external users. Dedra will also give an overview of how Cirrus Identity helps solve the following problems:



  *   You run an internal "guest account" system for parents, research collaborators, continuing education students, and more and you want to outsource management of those accounts and possibly allow users to login with social identities (Google, Facebook, LinkedIn)

  *   You found the perfect vendor application, it supports SAML, but with a single Identity Provider and you need to federate

  *   You want to participate in a federation, but don't want run your own SAML identity provider











*Date: Tuesday 15th December 2015*







*Time: 1600 GMT *







*Duration: 50 minutes including Q&A (this can be extended if there is sufficient demand for Q&A)*











REGISTRATION:



This is a free webinar and is open to all UK federation members.  Please register using the following link:







**Tuesday 15th December 2015:  https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/1612213171280634881







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We will be holding additional webinars in the future so if you are UK federation member, providing or supporting identity services and would like to participate, please contact me.





Mark Williams

UK federation Manager

T: 02030066042 (Direct)

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Jisc

Brettenham House

5 Lancaster Place

London

WC2E 7EN



Jisc is a registered charity (number 1149740) and a company limited by guarantee which is registered in England under Company No. 5747339, VAT No. GB 197 0632 86. Jisc’s registered office is: One Castlepark, Tower Hill, Bristol, BS2 0JA. T 0203 697 5800.



Jisc Services Limited is a wholly owned Jisc subsidiary and a company limited by guarantee which is registered in England under company number 2881024, VAT number GB 197 0632 86. The registered office is: One Castle Park, Tower Hill, Bristol BS2 0JA. T 0203 697 5800.  



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