Factoring the Authentication Equation: The Multi-factor Authentication (MFA) "Cohortium"
Call for Participation
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.
Summary
The Internet2 Scalable Privacy Project (ScalePriv) is seeking campuses to participate in the Multi-factor Authentication (MFA) "Cohortium". The MFA Cohortium will be 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.
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- 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.
- Participation document submission deadline: April 1226, 2013.
- 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.
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