Joseph Lombardo (UNLV) explains how a unique public-private collaboration that supports a flexible cloud and hybrid computing environment allowed his team to give researchers and other big data users on their campus the power to optimize codes and decrease the turnaround time on complex computational solutions, all while reducing the overall costs.

While multi-institutional collaborations on the rise, the data sets that support them are getting too large to transfer easily, the computing resources that they require have increased beyond the capacity of most campuses, and the expertise needed to support compute intensive research is scarce. Join Barr von Oehsen at the 2019 Internet2 Technology Exchange to learn how ERN addresses these challenges by leveraging the special relationship between researchers and the people who build and support research cyberinfrastructure across the Northeast. 

Join the University of Delaware on Dec. 12 at the 2019 Technology Exchange as they share their team’s experience in running Zeek to analyze network traffic on their campus.

Internet2 is monitoring Hurricane Dorian and will continue to monitor the situation closely to determine what impacts may arise to our campus members and regional network partners in the storm path. We will continue to update this page as information changes or becomes available.

Internet2 is monitoring Tropical Storm Barry and will continue to monitor the situation closely to determine what impacts may arise to our campus members and regional network partners in the storm path. We will continue to update this page as information changes or becomes available.

More than 100 campuses have expressed interest in the Internet2 Cloud Connect service, which enables campuses to leverage the value of their existing investment in Internet2 and their regional network. 

Want to learn more about cybersecurity needs and gaps, and how to accelerate research to fill those gaps? We encourage you to attend the Cybersecurity Research Transition To Practice workshop on June 19, 2019, in Chicago. 

Internet2 is pleased to announce that its production Cloud Connect service will be available as a part of our service offerings, at no additional fee.

Learn about a new program to establish and support a network of fellows. The program will select a small cohort of the research or research support community and empower them with basic cybersecurity knowledge and an understanding of Trusted CI services. The deadline to apply is Wednesday, March 13.

Thanks to a recent partnership, a group of researchers from higher education, the federal government, and industry collaborated on a project to help describe a standardized communication method for researchers performing high-throughput sequencing called BioCompute.

Multi-factor authentication (MFA) is growing in adoption among the national and international research and education communities. A session at the 2019 Global Summit will look at two integrations using MFA. Indiana University will share its experience integrating single sign-on and two-factor authentication with Salesforce, and the Brazil National Research and Education Network will share an open source solution based on the REFEDS MFA profile for Shibboleth Identity Provider.

This 2019 Global Summit session will delve into the broader topic of IT security challenges, but will more specifically illuminate the value of peer assessments. Join this panel of CIOs and Mark Bruhn of the REN-ISAC for this session on March 8 at 8:45 a.m., and come prepared with any questions you may have as they hope to have a lively, engaged audience discussion!

I am so pleased to tell you that we have been able to find an extraordinary individual that will be joining Internet2 as the new executive director for our research engagement program. Dr. Dana Brunson is joining Internet2 starting January 28, 2019, following a successful tenure at Oklahoma State University.

Internet2 continues its commitment to the NET+ program in meeting our members’ needs. One aspect of strengthening the program is improvements around information security.

At TechEX 2018, Case Western Reserve University and the University of Florida are planning two presentations focused on helping universities with controlled unclassified information.

Internet2 is committed to managing the NET+ program to deliver continuing value, and to effectively evolve the program to meet the ever-changing market and needs of higher education. Today, NET+ will be added to the executive responsibility portfolio of Kevin Morooney, VP for Trust and Identity. 

Many of us find that researchers are unaware that Identity Federation services exist to make their work easier by enabling seamless, faster, and better collaboration.

Identity-as-a-Service (IdaaS) has emerged as one of the many cloud-based Software-as-a-Service offerings. Some of the more well-known names in this field include Okta, Forgerock, OneLogin, and Auth0. The biggest tech players also offer IdaaS which includes AWS Cognito, Google IdP, and Microsoft Azure Active Directory (Azure AD).