NMI-EDIT Signet and Grouper Early Adopters Deployment Workshop

Core middleware services such as identity management, directory, and authentication provide a foundation for secure, manageable applications throughout an institution. Even with this foundation, as systems and applications proliferate, it becomes more and more difficult to manage user access consistently and cost-effectively. The Signet Privilege Management System and the Grouper Group Tools Suite address this problem by providing a common infrastructure for the distributed management of user privileges and groups across a range of applications.

Cosponsored with the University of Southern California, the NMI-EDIT Signet and Grouper Early Adopters Deployment Workshop will provide hands-on experience in the installation and deployment of Internet2's Signet and Grouper packages and their integration with each other and common identity management infrastructures and applications. Attendees will also have the opportunity to network with other early deployment site representatives about uses and implementations. Workshop participants will:

• participate in software installfests
• translate requirements into metadata and leave with a working test model
• learn about the specifics of integration between Signet and Grouper and existing infrastructures
• understand varied use cases and how they apply to their campuses
• influence software development

Participation

While we would like to include all interested campuses, priority will be given to those planning to deploy the software this year and in particular to those interested in providing their experiences in a case study.

Institutions are encouraged to send up to two attendees that best represent the following functions:

• system install, integration, and ongoing support staff
• campus technology architects
• technical analysts responsible for implementing the functional logic and metadata for a chosen application

For More Information

For more information on this workshop, please contact Ann West at awest@educause.edu.

Sponsors

This workshop is sponsored by the University of Southern California and the National Science Foundation Middleware Initiative-Enterprise and Desktop Integration Technologies (NMI-EDIT) Consortium: Internet2 and EDUCAUSE. Additional support is provided by the National Science Foundation Cooperative Agreement NSF ANI-0330626.