CAMP: Practical Building Blocks for Access Management

Do you have faculty demanding special access for their student assistants to help manage some of their online course work? Scratching your head over how to reduce your help desk calls and give researchers the tools they need to set up their own collaborative projects?

An organization's success often depends on its effective use of electronic resources that must be both protected and reliably available to the people who need them. The challenge for departments and central IT is to identify the commonality and build shared services and resources that can efficiently and effectively support the diverse local needs. After all, the goal is to make it easier for our faculty, staff, and students to do their work.

But here's the rub: we see this move to online delivery and collaboration as both a blessing and a curse. It makes our services more cost-effective, responsive, and personalized. But it also increases data-integrity challenges and security risks.

Come to CAMP to discuss strategies that you and other IT leaders on your campus can use to address these challenges in practical ways. Enterprise access management (and authorization) is a big task, and that's why you should start small.

Who Should Attend

"CAMP: Practical Building Blocks for Access Management" provides academic and administrative stakeholders and their IT partners, IT managers, security staff, and technical implementers from smaller to larger schools the chance to learn more about the basic building blocks campuses can use to get started in this complex area. Institutions are encouraged to send a team representing IT management, security, and technical staff and department stakeholders who will be employing access management to learn about these issues together and leave with next steps for access management efforts back home.

Topics to be Addressed

Come to CAMP to:

• share case studies and emerging practices from academic, administrative, and research areas that you can use today
• explore the basic components of access management and their relationship to identity management and security
• learn about what stakeholders look for in access management and how to work together to make progress
• leave with advice from your colleagues on how to incrementally build access management to reduce risk and ensure success
• hear how these approaches help with service provisioning to support business and academic objectives, compliance, and security
• share practical approaches for integrating standard authorization components like groups and roles into applications

CAMP is sponsored by EDUCAUSE and Internet2. Additional support was provided by National Science Foundation Cooperative Agreement OCI-0330626.