Middleware Announcements

[Renee Frost <>]

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CAMP WORKSHOP: BUILDING A DISTRIBUTED ACCESS MANAGEMENT INFRASTRUCTURE
Denver, Colorado * November 7-9, 2006
http://www.educause.edu/camp064
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CHALLENGED WITH BRINGING CONSISTENCY AND SANITY TO MANAGING ACCESS
RIGHTS in a multi-system environment? Attend the CAMP workshop,
"Building a Distributed Access Management Infrastructure," November 7-9
in Denver, Colorado, to learn more about the roles, methods, and
requirements involved. This CAMP will offer attendees a roadmap for
implementing a distributed access management infrastructure to help
support enterprise authorization services. A key strategy toward this
goal is supported by two products developed by the Internet2 community:
GROUPER, a groups management toolkit, and SIGNET, a privilege
management system. Read more about these products and the program
scope at
http://www.educause.edu/camp064

REGISTER BY OCTOBER 16 to save money with early-bird rates.
http://www.educause.edu/Registration/11300

DESIGNED FOR BOTH MANAGEMENT AND TECHNICAL STAFF
This workshop will offer education and guidance to higher education IT
managers, project managers, middleware architects, and systems analysts
involved at a technical, management, or stakeholder level in supporting
campus-wide services. Having a preexisting familiarity with identity
management is recommended.

IDENTITY MANAGEMENT WARM-UP: NONTECHNICAL AND TECHNICAL PREWORKSHOPS
* "Introduction to Identity Management: The Big Picture"--Unsure how
  all the parts of an identity management system fit together? Find out
  more about this and the context for authorization and access
  management before CAMP starts.

* "Integration Technologies for Signet and Grouper"--Want to know more
  about how to install Signet and Grouper and connect them into your
  identity management infrastructure? Find out more at this technical
  pre-workshop session.

  PLEASE NOTE: Separate registration and fee are required.
  http://www.educause.edu/Program/11289

CAMP SPONSORS
CAMP is sponsored by the National Science Foundation Middleware
Initiative-Enterprise and Desktop Integration Technologies (NMI-EDIT)
Consortium: Internet2 and EDUCAUSE. Additional support was provided by
the National Science Foundation OCI-0330626.

OTHER MIDDLEWARE RESOURCES
* Get started with identity management
  http://www.nmi-edit.org/
* View NMI-EDIT's Enterprise Directory Implementation Roadmap
  http://www.nmi-edit.org/roadmap/dir-roadmap_200510/index-set.html
* View NMI-EDIT's Enterprise Authentication Implementation Roadmap
  http://www.nmi-edit.org/roadmap/draft-authn-roadmap-03/
* Access PROCEEDINGS from past CAMP meetings
  http://www.educause.edu/camp
* Browse RESOURCES and sign up for E-MAIL ALERTS on middleware
  http://www.educause.edu/Browse/645&PARENT_ID=285
* Subscribe to the 
Net@EDU
 Identity Management Working Group mailing
  list
  http://www.educause.edu/IdentityManagementWorkingGroup/928
* Learn more about the NMI-EDIT technical development lead by the
  Internet2 Middleware Initiative
  http://middleware.internet2.edu