CACTI Call, Tuesday, June 22, 2021

Attending

 Member

  • Rob Carter, Duke, (Chair)   
  • Les LaCroix, Carleton College (Vice-Chair)  
  • Marina Adomeit, SUNET  
  • John Bradley, Independent  
  • Margaret Cullen, Painless Security  
  • Michael Grady, Unicon  
  • Kevin Hickey, Detroit Mercy  
  • Marina Krenz, REN-ISAC  
  • Chris Phillips, CANARIE  
  • Bill Thompson, Lafayette College 

 Internet2 

  • Kevin Morooney 
  • Ann West  
  • Nicole Roy  
  • Emily Eisbruch 
    Netta Caligari  

 Regrets

  • Joshua Drake, Indiana University's Center for Applied Cybersecurity Research, regrets Matthew Economou, InCommon TAC Representative to CACTI 
  • Stoney Gan, University of South Florida
  • Barry Johnson, Clemson 
  • Jeremy Perkins, Instructure
  • Steve Zoppi, Internet2

 

  Action items from March 30, 2021

  • AI - Rob and Les - slot the user centric identity  topic into a future CACTI agenda
  • AI - Rob and Les - form ideas to share with CACTI for continuing the secrets management discussion with others in the community  

    Action items from March 16, 2021

  • AI - Rob reach out to the CACTI email list to start to gather contacts and use cases for upcoming discussions around OIDC.
  • AI - Rob reach out to leaders of MidPoint/Banner Integration working group to talk with CACTI re: Banner, (AnnW did intro with MattB)  .  (Note Banner WG is folding into the MidPoint WG)

 Discussion

  1.  Administrivia
    1. Internet2 Intellectual Property Agreement reminder
    2. CACTI Charter pointer


Announcements

  • TNC (online meeting) is this week (https://tnc21.geant.org/)
    • Previously TNC was called the TERENA conference
    • The conference is on European time, meetings start early for Eastern Time Zone
      • This is a challenge of global online meetings
    • Last year TNC was cancelled
    • It was noted that the online conference is going well, chat features are helpful
  • IAM Online planning ongoing, date changed to Wed., August 11th
    • Topic is around Secrets Management
    • Security focus, including Supply Chain security
    • Relationship to SolarWinds
    • Planning meeting for the IAM Online is this Friday June 25
    • IAM Planning subgroup met with Trust and Identity Software Integration Working Group, that working group is interested in this opportunity, may meet with them again
    • Link to the skeleton presentation; 
      • need to fill it in more
    • We are still shaping the message message CACTI wants to advocate for in this area
    • We want to get people to the table, help people to be more effective in their onsite security.  



Welcome and Intro: Netta Caligari, InCommon Community Program Manager  

    • Netta is based in Fort Collins, Colorado
    • Comes from a start-up around digital engagement 
    • Worked at Colorado State University previously
    • Netta will be working to support Trust and Identity advisory committees  
    • She will also be lead for IAM Online, CAMP and Advance CAMP
    • Goals include
      • Streamlining how the community works and ensuring resources are findable  
      • Help with getting review and awareness for the community's work
      • Highlighting community stories
    • She looks forward  to learning about CACTI’s priorities
    • Feel free to reach out to Netta jcaligari@internet2.edu

Rolling updates from CACTI members at the top of each call?  

  • It can be a challenge getting cross fertilization and different voices heard on the CACTI calls
  • Suggested new approach to create more opportunities for broader involvement
  • Ask CACTI members to report back on outside conferences, committees and involvements
  • The approach of having “reports” from various advisory committee members has worked well in InCommon TAC, works well at Duke
    •  incorporating pre-reads can help
  • Plan is to ask a CACTI member to present a topic about 1.5 weeks in advance of the CACTI call where they will present
  • Ideas for next time (Colonial pipeline briefing - Josh; FIDO Alliance)?
  • Logistics - Nicole  will ask for volunteers and/or “voluntold-ing” people (will miss the next call due to some OoO time, however)

Community Outreach - Continuing the discussion 

  • It's important to keep in touch with other identity organizations (the identerati)
  • Connection with the IDPRO community is one way https://idpro.org/
  • Where else can we look for external communities connected with trust and identity?
  • KevinH: suggestion to reach out to Microsoft 
  • Kevin M:
    • InCommon does not have a sales team
    • we maintain and curate a vast network of people who know we exist
    • We get “sales” through spinning and maintaining a web
    • If we properly shape and position the web, we will catch things important to us
    • Helpful to expand our web
    • Could be interesting to do an inventory of how we are doing
    • IETF is an organization where Internet2 staff and committee chairs used to spend much time in the IETF world. Less so now
    • Gartner is an organization that convenes people in Higher Ed https://www.gartner.com/en/consulting
    • AACROA - Ann West has done a lot of work with this organization https://www.aacrao.org/who-we-are
    • InCommon Steering has emphasized the need for a greater focus on the value proposition
  • Rob noted that the component architects have talked about sustainability
    • what are best approaches to identify and cultivate new leaders to have in place for when a current software team lead or other leader retires?



Next CACTI Meeting: Tuesday, July 20, 2021
(NOTE: The July 6th CACTI meeting is cancelled in observance of Independence Day (US))

 

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