Shibboleth®
The Shibboleth System is a standards based, open source software package for web single sign-on across or within organizational boundaries. It allows sites to make informed authorization decisions for individual access of protected online resources in a privacy-preserving manner.
Featured News
UK Access Management Federation formally launched
Over 500 institutions and organisations have completed the transition to a new open standard SAML compliant access management system and to the UK Access Management Federation. The federation will be providing access to approximately 8 million users across the UK. Over 90% of HE institutions and more than half of further education providers have joined the federation.
The federation now has over 150 Service Provider platforms registered with over 100 educational publishers such as the BBC, Elsevier, ProQuest, Thomson Scientific, Institute of Physics and a range of smaller publishers, such as Rock's Back-pages. More...
News
- Holy grail of IDs (SC Magazine - May 22, 2008)
- EBSCO Extends Shibboleth Authentication Service into Germany (May 22, 2008)
- InCommon Provides Online Identity Management Platform for Microsoft DreamSpark Program (May 22, 2008)
- Identity Management Streamlined at University of Texas Campuses (Government Technology - Apr 28, 2008)
- Shibboleth authentication tool upgraded (Government Computer News - April 22, 2008
Open-source suite for federated identity management gets improved security, easier management - Shibboleth 2.0 Now Available (March 19, 2008)
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Events
- Implementing Shibboleth at your Organisation - Recurring training sessions presented by JANET(UK)
- Shibboleth InstallFests
Each of these events is open to international participants but priority seating is given to members within the respective country.- August 19-20, 2008, Lausanne, Switzerland
This event covers the Service Provider component.
- August 19-20, 2008, Lausanne, Switzerland
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