Group management
Federating the next generation
Abstract
“Identity management tools to support access control. ”
“Cal and Richie will provide a practical real world example the value of using the internet2.edu’s Grouper to structure rich attributes (e.g. user to modules mapping) for access control. They will also talk about how to get identity data where it needs to be to support access control by using a combination of the open source toolkit Talend and a institutional data flow support service. “
Presenter
Caleb Racey
Caleb Racey is the Team Leader of the Middleware team based in Newcastle University’s Information Systems and Services department. He has 8 years experience of web application provision with a particular focus on the issues of single sign on and access control. He was project manager of the successfully completed JISC funded GFIVO project. The project used the internet2’s Grouper tool to control access to collaborative web resources, Grouper now forms part of the university’s core IT architecture. Cal is also currently technical lead on the JISC funded institutional exemplar IDMAPS project, which is creating a data infrastructure to support identity management and application integration. Cal regularly talks at national and international I.T. architecture conferences on the closely related subjects of Identity Management, Federated Access Control, and Institutional Data Management.
Richard James
Richard is a Computing Officer within the Middleware team based in Newcastle University’s Information Systems and Services departments. He is the project officer for the JISC funded GFIVO project and also has involvement in the JISC funded institutional exemplar IDMAPS project. His current focus is on using internet2’s Grouper tool to control access to collaborative web resources and to provide role based access control to University systems, for example a room booking system using the Syllabus Plus service. Alongside his work with Grouper, he has been involved in the use of the open source data integration tool, Talend, to work towards improving the overall data flows throughout the University