Paul Howell, Chief Cyberinfrastructure Security Officer at Internet2, discusses some of the security insights gleaned from syslog and how your organisation can incorporate security monitoring using syslog as a security operations practice.

A sneak peek of the upcoming Defense-In-Depth presentation that is part of the On the Campus Network: Cybersecurity for Research & Defense in Depth session at the 2018 Internet2 Global Summit in San Diego, California.

Internet2 offers a full solution for AWS Direct Connect. This includes Cloud Connect, allowing the user to reach locations where Direct Connect is available and with the NET+ AWS service.

A sneak peek of the upcoming Introducing Frogans: A New Medium on Top of the Internet presentation at the 2018 Internet2 Global Summit in San Diego, California.

A sneak peek of the upcoming Virtual Reality Content for Higher Education: Challenges and Opportunities presentation by California State University - San Bernardino at the 2018 Internet2 Global Summit in San Diego, California.

A sneak peek of the upcoming How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Cloud presentation at the 2018 Internet2 Global Summit in San Diego, California.

A sneak peek of the upcoming Investing in Networking and Human Expertise in Support of African Science session at the 2018 Internet2 Global Summit in San Diego, California.

The InCommon Deployment Profile working group needs your help. We've created a major revision to the SAML 2.0 deployment profile, commonly referred to as SAML2int. Between now and May 7th, we're collecting community feedback and comments on our revisions at https://spaces.internet2.edu/x/WIPmBQ.

Architects from seven national research and education networks give you a sneak peek of their upcoming session at the 2018 Internet2 Global Summit in San Diego, California.

The world of Networking is changing with many influences in the marketplace and the academy including open systems, software-driven networks, big science collaboration and cloud. Fortunately, the upcoming Internet2 Global Summit in San Diego, CA offers many opportunities to hear about these changes and how R&E organizations are adjusting to and changing in the new environment.

The conversation around the cloud in higher education has progressed beyond the question of “should we go to the cloud?” to “ok, we’re in the cloud – how do we do things better?” Fortunately, there are a number of opportunities at the upcoming Internet2 Global Summit in San Diego, CA to hear from and collaborate with your peer institutions and organizations on specific cloud services or cloud practices in general. 

We just announced an updated Internet2 Splunk program!

In early 2018, the InCommon Assurance Advisory Committee (AAC) changed its name, its mission, and welcomed a number of new members. The new Community Trust and Assurance Board (CTAB) succeeds the AAC, recognizing the expanded role and responsibilities for this group.

Here are some highlights as the Trust and Identity community gathers May 6-9 at the 2018 Global Summit in San Diego. See the Global Summit program for all of the trust and identity sessions.

A sneak peek of the upcoming Africa Special Interest Group session at the 2018 Internet2 Global Summit in San Diego, California by Magreth Mushi and Nosiku Sikanyika.

New and updated containers have been released for three of the four main TIER (Trust and Identity in Education and Research) components. The TIER Packaging Working Group and TIER developers and architects have now released containerized version of Shibboleth (v3.3.1), Grouper (v2.3.0), and COmanage (v3.1.0). The working group is also working to release a container for midPoint.

Nearing the halfway point in their year-long work to adopt one or more TIER components, the Campus Success Program participants will gather at the 2018 Internet2 Global Summit (May 6-9) to hear reports from working groups and develop a work plan that will take them to October.

The InCommon Federation Manager — the online tool that site administrators use to create, edit, and maintain their metadata — has undergone a number of enhancements and updates in the last six months. This was enabled by the 2017 fee increase, which provided resources to hire a DevOps manager and consultants to develop a roadmap and make improvements.

Since this past December, the Attributes for Collaboration and Federation Working Group has reached over 130 institutions and organizations through an online survey and personal interviews as the group has examined participation in the Research and Scholarship Category (R&S).