Harvey Mudd College Becomes 600th Participant In Internet2’s InCommon Community
Cloud, Certificates, Trust and Identity All Factors in Decision
Emeryville, CA---Feb. 3, 2014 – Internet2 is proud to announce its 600th InCommon participant, Harvey Mudd College located in Claremont, California. InCommon, the trust services provider for U.S. education and research, now includes 411 higher education institutions, 30 government and non-profit research centers and agencies, and 159 corporate and non-profit partners.
“Harvey Mudd College is delighted to become the 600th participant of InCommon,” said Joseph Vaughan, chief information officer and vice-president for computing and information services at the college. “Through the Claremont Consortium we have long been members of Internet2 and have wanted to participate in the benefits of InCommon for some time. Internet2’s InCommon leaders are doing so much in the areas of networking and cloud computing that are or will be beneficial to a small college like Harvey Mudd. We look forward to making use of the InCommon Certificate Service, for instance, as well as the InCommon Federation.”
More and more, the research and education community is turning to outsourced or cloud services, from learning management systems to support for the vast array of business functions. Through the federation, InCommon provides secure and privacy-preserving institution-based single sign-on convenience for 7.5 million individuals at more than 330 research and higher education organizations.
“This year marks the 10th anniversary – and the continued significant growth – of Internet2’s InCommon, the community-built and community-led approach to access and identity management,” said Shel Waggener, senior vice president of Internet2. “I invite all of the research and education community, and the commercial partners who serve them, to utilize InCommon and enjoy this simpler, scalable approach to collaboration and partnerships.”
Internet2 operates:
- The InCommon Federation, an identity and access management federation, currently with 434 organizations participating.
- The InCommon Certificate Service, offering unlimited certificates for all domains owned by a college or university, currently with 274 subscribers
- The InCommon Assurance Program, providing U.S. government-approved trust in identities for access to higher-value services.
- The InCommon Multifactor Program, offering multifactor authentication services such as Duo Security phone-based systems and SafeNet smartcards and USB format PKI hard tokens.
About Internet2’s InCommon
InCommon®, operated by Internet2®, serves the US education and research communities, supporting a common framework of trust services, including the US identity management trust federation for research and education, a community-driven Certificate Service, an Assurance Program providing higher levels of trust, and a multifactor authentication program. InCommon has more than 600 participants, including higher education institutions and research organizations, and their sponsored partners. For more information on InCommon and a full list of participants, see www.incommon.org.
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 technology challenges, and to develop innovative solutions in support of their educational, research, and community service missions.
Internet2® also operates the nation’s largest and fastest, coast-to-coast research and education network, and serves more than 90,000 community anchor institutions, including more than 245 U.S. universities, 70 government agencies, 38 regional and state education networks, 60 leading corporations working with our community 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.; Washington, D.C; and West Hartford, CT. For more information, visit www.internet2.edu or follow @Internet2 on Twitter.
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