Leveraging Campus Directories: Lightweight Authorization and Group Management

Session Details

Speaker(s)

• Keith D. Hazelton, Senior IT Architect, University of Wisconsin-Madison
• Session convener: Oren Sreebny, Executive Director, Strategic Initiatives, University of Washington

Abstract

After implementing enterprise directories, institutions quickly discover that directory groups are essential to providing lightweight authorization services and provisioning applications. This session will offer an overview of and strategies to address the challenges of providing these valuable services. This session is offered in collaboration with the NSF Middleware Initiative-EDIT Consortium of Internet2 and EDUCAUSE.

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