500th Participant Joins Internet2’s InCommon Community
Internet2 is proud to announce its 500th InCommon participant, Hamilton College in Clinton, New York. InCommon, Internet2’s trust services provider for U.S. education and research, now includes 337 higher education institutions, 28 government and non-profit research centers and agencies, and 135 corporate and non-profit partners.
"Hamilton College uses information resources and services from off-campus providers as a central part of our institutional portfolio,” said David Smallen, Hamilton’s vice president for information technology and director of the library. “InCommon is a strategic partner in helping us assure reliable access in a cost-effective manner."
InCommon experienced a 39 percent growth rate overall in 2012, starting the year with 354 participants and ending with 488. The InCommon Certificate Service grew by 50 percent, from 143 subscribers at the beginning of 2012 to 214 at the end of the year.
You can view a chart showing the growth of InCommon's growth.
InCommon operates:
- The InCommon Federation, an identity and access management federation, currently with 365 organizations participating.
- The InCommon Certificate Service, offering unlimited certificates for all domains owned by a college or university, currently with 217 subscribers
- The InCommon Assurance Program, providing U.S. government-approved trust in identities for access to higher-risk services, which certified its first identity provider - Virginia Tech - in 2012.
- The InCommon Multifactor Program, offering multifactor authentication services such as Duo Security phone-based systems and SafeNet smartcards and USB tokens.
For more information on InCommon and a full list of participants, visit www.incommon.org.
Internet2 Announces New Pricing for Duo Security Two-Factor Authentication
Ann Arbor, Mich. (Jan. 25, 2013) - Duo Security and Internet2 have announced new pricing to make it easier and more affordable for campuses to get started with easy-to-use, two-factor authentication technology. The special pricing for Duo Security’s service is only available to qualifying InCommon participants and Internet2 university members as part of the Internet2 NET+ program.
With the new pricing, any qualifying InCommon participant can enroll as few as 500 users in Duo’s phone-based, two-factor authentication service for just $5 per user per year. There are no contracts or special agreements, and Duo offers online account set-up and payment by credit card or purchase order.
“Duo Security makes two-factor authentication usable and affordable for organizations of any size,” said Dug Song, CEO, Duo Security. “Our new Internet2 pricing makes it even easier for higher education and research organizations to get started with Duo without committing to a site license.”
Two-factor authentication prevents account takeover and online fraud by requiring proof of something the user has in addition to something the user knows. Duo Security simplifies the deployment and usability of two-factor authentication by delivering it as a cloud service and by leveraging a device that all users have, a phone. After the user’s password is verified, the Duo service is invoked, which retrieves the user’s consent to login by smartphone app, phone call, or text message.
"We're very appreciative of this special program and substantial discount that Duo is offering to our higher education and research community," said Shelton Waggener, senior vice president, Internet2. "Duo has been a strong advocate for our community and understands the value of multifactor adoption at scale for security-conscious institutions."
This program complements Internet2’s existing partnership with Duo to provide enterprise-wide, site license program that covers faculty and staff, or faculty, staff and students, as well as university-related hospital staff.
For more information or to register, visit www.duosecurity.com/incommon and www.incommon.org/duo.
Contact:
Dean Woodbeck, Internet2/InCommon
woodbeck@internet2.edu
(734) 352-7007
About Internet2
Internet2® is a member-owned advanced technology community founded by the nation's leading higher education institutions in 1996. Internet2 provides a collaborative environment for U.S. research and education organizations to solve common technology challenges, and to develop innovative solutions in support of their educational, research, and community service missions.
Internet2 consists of 220 U.S. universities, 60 leading corporations, 70 government agencies, 38 regional and state education networks and more than 100 national research and education networking partners representing more than 50 countries. Internet2 offices are located in Ann Arbor, Mich.; Emeryville, Calif.; New York, NY; and Washington, DC. For more information, visit www.internet2.edu.
About Duo Security
Duo Security is an authentication and mobile security software company dedicated to preventing online account takeover. The company's two-factor authentication service empowers organizations to protect any remotely accessed resource with a device all users \ carry, a phone. Over 1,000 organizations with users in over 80 countries rely on Duo to secure their logins and transactions including higher education institutions such as Duke University, University of Arizona, University of Michigan, and University of Tennessee.
The latest InCommon Update is now available. Topics include:
- IAM Online Jan. 16: Scalable Privacy, the Identity Ecosystem, and the NSTIC Grant
- Growth for InCommon, the Federation, and the Certificate Service
- New Certificate Service Subscribers
- New Sponsored Partners
- Unicon will offer Shib, Grouper training sessions January 17
- Gluu will host a webinar on Friday, January 11
IAM Online – Wednesday, January 16, 2012
1 pm ET | Noon CT | 11 am MT | 10 am PT
www.incommon.org/iamonline
Scalable Privacy: An NSTIC Grant for the Identity Ecosystem
Are you interested in providing users more control over privacy, including consenting to release of attributes and actively managing their identity in cyberspace? Would you like to hear about a national effort to build a consistent and robust privacy infrastructure? Join us for this IAM Online, where Ken Klingenstein of Internet2 will discuss how this federal pilot program will help develop tools and technologies to achieve these goals.
Under the grant, provided by NIST through the National Strategy for Trusted Identities in Cyberspace, Internet2 and partner campuses will build this infrastructure through common attributes, user-effective privacy managers, anonymous credentials, and the InCommon Federation. Many of the ideas and concepts pioneered in our community are being adapted for use in the broader ecosystem.
Please plan to join us for this special presentation during Data Privacy Month! You'll find more information about the presentation at www.incommon.org/iamonline.
Speaker: Ken Klingenstein, Senior Director, Middleware and Security, Internet2
Host and Moderator: Rodney Petersen, Managing Director of the Washington Office and Senior Government Relations Officer, EDUCAUSE
Connecting
We use Adobe Connect for slide sharing and audio: http://internet2.adobeconnect.com/iam-online. For more details, including back-up phone bridge information, see www.incommon.org/iamonline.
ABOUT IAM Online
IAM Online is a monthly online education series including essentials of federated identity management, hot topics from the EDUCAUSE Identity and Access Management Working Group, and emerging topics in IAM. Experts provide overviews, answer questions and lead discussions. IAM is brought to you by Internet2’s InCommon community and the EDUCAUSE Identity and Access Management Working Group.