Overview: This session will provide a status update on our current use of MFA providers—Duo and Microsoft—highlighting adoption progress, integration challenges, and user experience feedback. We’ll explore the roadmap for the next 6 to 12 months, including planned enhancements, policy shifts, and anticipated changes in authentication workflows.Key Topics:Current State of MFA Deployment– Usage metrics and […]
Identity and Access Management Architect, Technology Services
Multi-factor Authentication (MFA) is a necessary part of authentication at the university every day. The IAM team at Urbana will review our progress with MFA adoption, recent changes to MFA, and a roadmap looking to the future plans of MFA. We will discuss plans to improve factor security, support for newer technologies as well as […]
Come get a roadmap preview of what’s in store for the future of identity and access management on campus. We’ll briefly review the current state of identity lifecycles, authentication and access controls, then discuss new technologies and practices that we are planning over the next few years and how you can prepare so you don’t […]
The Technology Services Identity & Access Management team has chosen to deploy multiple InCommon-supported platform components using Docker images in Amazon Web Services (AWS). These deployments use the AWS Elastic Container Service (ECS) ad infrastructure as code using Terraform. We also created a GitHub Actions workflow to automate the partial deployment of the image as […]
Take a tour behind the scenes on some of the data analytics the IAM team does with identity, authentication and authorization logs collected in our Splunk SIEM.
We will take a deeper dive into Authorization Manager and how you can integrate your application with defined access management policies. We will take a look at managing role-based access control (RBAC) for cloud-based roles in Amazon Web Services and Azure, creating and managing Office 365 groups, and how to interact with AuthMan through the […]
Authorization Manager (AuthMan for short) is an access policy registry that’s been in a soft rollout/pilot for about a year. In that time, we’ve had several high-profile services leverage the power of group management and access governance using various available IAM tools. Come see how Splunk, AWS, Office 365 and other services on campus are […]
Authorization Manager (AuthMan) is finally here! Powered by Grouper, we will review basic group management techniques, walk through establishing authorization policies, and also cover how these policies can be consumed and enforced by your service or application. Bring your laptop, and your current service authorization decisions and we can guide you on how to leverage […]
Come see the latest and greatest improvements in the IAM landscape at Illinois– tools that will help academic units and researchers improve the experience with authentication and authorization. We will reveal exciting new alternatives to authentication using social IDs, and how you can authenticate using Shibboleth without a browser. We’ll also give an updated look […]