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Signet Infosheet (PDF)
Identity and Access Management Infosheet (PDF)

Signet v1.3.0 released: July 17, 2008 NEW
Part of NSF Middleware Initiative: NMI-EDIT

Background

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. A privilege management service is a relatively new component of campus middleware that addresses this problem by providing centralized management of user privileges across a range of applications.

• a standard user interface for privilege administrators
• consistent, simplified policy definition, via roles and integration with core campus organizational data
• improved visibility, understandability, and auditability of privilege information
• standard interfaces to other infrastructure services and to application systems to support integration

Signet v1.3.0 NEW

• XML import/export capability - both API and command-line tool
• Expanded API in Signet's persistence layer (database API)
  
• Architectural cleanup and refinements
• Increased visibility of several APIs
  
• Removed unused / unnecessary APIs
  
• Simplified the object model
  
• Improved persistence layer design
  
• Now using C3PO DB connection pooling (like Grouper)
  
• Improved documentation
• and much more...
• Release Notes are included on the software download page in the wiki.

Leading-edge development and use of privilege management systems at some campuses have both proven the feasibility of these systems and provided valuable understanding of technical and organizational prerequisites. The Signet project intends to build on these successes to permit more institutions to take advantage of this useful service.

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NOTE WELL: All Internet2 Activities are governed by the Internet2 Intellectual Property Framework.

• Internet2's Middleware Initiative announces the release of Signet Privilege Management System and the Grouper Group Management Toolkit (August 2006)

• Signet Trademark Guidelines and Styleguide
• Signet License

• Grouper
• Shibboleth