Middleware Announcements

[Steve Olshansky <>]

All-
The deadline for applications to participate in the Multi-Factor 
Authentication Cohortium has been moved to April 26, 2013. Whether you have a 
current deployment of multi-factor authentication, or you think you may be 
deploying some time in the next few years, the Cohortium will be a great 
place to learn from others and share your experiences.

See below for further details.
        Steve

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Steve Olshansky
Director, Federated Technologies
Internet2
www.internet2.edu
www.incommon.org


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> From: Steve Olshansky 
> <>
> Subject: Call for Participation: The Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) 
> Cohortium
> Date: March 12, 2013 5:07:23 PM MDT
> To: 
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> Reply-To: 
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> 
> The Internet2 Scalable Privacy Project (ScalePriv), funded with the recent 
> NSTIC grant 
> to Internet2, is seeking campuses to participate in the Multi-factor 
> Authentication (MFA) 
> Cohortium" (see definition below).  Applications are open until April 12, 
> 2013.
> 
> The MFA Cohortium is a ScalePriv-supported group of institutions sharing 
> their 
> explorations, experiences, expertise, artifacts, and overall "journey" in 
> learning about, 
> planning for, and deploying multi-factor authentication for a variety of 
> key use cases 
> within each institution, as well as federated access to services. It will 
> be a facilitated 
> and focused 15-month effort to help you (as a participating institution) 
> make real 
> progress towards MFA deployments. It will enable your institution, and 
> higher education 
> more broadly, to answer the questions "where do we need MFA?," "how do we 
> deploy it?," and 
> "what will it cost and what is our ROI?." And it will be focused on the 
> research and 
> education (R&E) community, dealing with issues and use cases of particular 
> concern within
> R&E such as integrating MFA into WebSSO, sensitive data, cloud services, 
> distance 
> learners, bring-your-own-device, and the return on investment (ROI) within 
> the R&E 
> environment.
> 
> Important highlights: 
> * Will provide your institution broader access to expertise, resources, and 
> collaborators 
> to help you accomplish your MFA goals. 
> *Enable a significant advancement in the deployment of Multi-factor 
> Authentication across 
> Higher Education. 
> * Combining MFA with federation can multiply the impact and reach of MFA to 
> inter-
> institutional, shared resource, and cloud service environments. 
> * A key effort within the Internet2 Scalable Privacy Project. 
> * 15-month facilitated collaborative effort beginning in April 2013 and 
> ending in June 
> 2014. 
> * Number of institutions accepted for participation in the Cohortium may 
> need to be 
> restricted, depending on response, to ensure value and effective 
> collaboration for the 
> member institutions.
> 
> The full Call for Participation, containing a much richer explanation of 
> the goals of the 
> MFA Cohortium, more detailed information on what it will do and how it will 
> operate, the 
> expectations for institutions participating, and what information is needed 
> in your 
> "application to join", can be found at:
> 
>   Call for Participation:  https://spaces.internet2.edu/x/mQgwAg
> 
> One option for applying will be to use the web-based application form:
> 
>   Apply online at: https://spaces.internet2.edu/x/4wwwAg
> 
> Remember, the closing date for applications is April 12, 2013. Questions 
> may be
> sent to:  
> 
>  .
> 
> cohortium: "Group of institutions sharing their explorations, experiences,
> expertise, artifacts, and overall journey," in this case of planning for and
> deploying multi-factor authentication. 
>  * Cohort: In statistics and demography, a cohort is a group of subjects 
> who have shared 
>  a particular event together during a particular time span [cohort 
> (statistics) from 
>  Wikipedia]. 
>  * -tium added to noun base to create abstract noun, "something connected 
> with the act," 
>  could mean "act, condition, office of...".
> 
> 
> --
> Steve Olshansky
> Director, Federated Technologies
> Internet2
> www.internet2.edu
> www.incommon.org