Are you ready for federated access management? asks Netskills
As part of Jisc’s plans to develop and implement next-generation access management technologies on behalf of UK education and research, Netskills is providing a UK-wide programme of training events to help institutions as they join the UK Access Management Federation.
The three-day workshop - Federated Access Management: Core Skills - developed with Jisc funding, focuses on the practical requirements for organisations joining the federation and acting as their own Identity Provider (IdP). Guest speakers at each event provide an opportunity to find out how others are already working with federated access management.
The end of funding for <?xml:namespace prefix = st1 /?>Athens access after July 2008 is one of the factors driving colleges and universities to make a decision about how they access online resources. Federated access management - for both internal and external resources - offers a more secure, scalable and user friendly e‘The workshop met all my expectations and more. Information was clear and well presented. I now have the confidence to configure Access Management for our college.'nvironment for organisations to manage and verify the online identity of their own members.
Feedback from the first course has been extremely positive, with one delegate saying: ‘The workshop met all my expectations and more. Information was clear and well presented. I now have the confidence to configure Access Management for our college. Easily the best short course I have encountered in a long time.’ Another said: ‘This was a great course, I left feeling confident and at ease with the tasks ahead, this confidence was built by the skilled and professional trainers.’
Chris Young, senior consultant trainer at Netskills and one of those running the workshops, says the workshops are proving successful because the workshops are directly targeted at the needs of key institutional staff who are implementing the new technologies: ‘The federated access management route offers a secure and scalable environment for institutions to manage and verify the online identity of their own members. This workshop allows participants to use the technology for themselves and explore the skills and steps necessary to deploy it within their organisation.’
The workshops give technical staff the opportunity to see the systems working and to explore the components that make them work, while non-systems staff will be able to gain an effective overview of the technical set-up required and how it fits in to an overall strategy for effective access management.
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