RCCPII and SAFIRE to Host Identity Management & Federation Workshop

About IMF-2019

Many institutions are already doing some form of identity management, but often the staff involved have no formal understanding of the underlying concepts and theory. This workshop is aimed at institutional identity management staff or directory administrators – the people responsible for provisioning user accounts.

We will start by providing a solid understanding of digital identity and the identity management lifecycle in a vendor-neutral way. This serves as an introduction for those who may be unfamiliar with identity management whilst simultaneously solidifying the theoretical concepts for staff already working in this space. Building on this knowledge, we go on to introduce the concepts of federated identity generically, explore why federation is important to research and education, and look at eduroam and SAFIRE as specific examples that are relevant in South Africa.

Who should attend?

IMF 2019 is targeted at institutional identity management staff or directory administrators - the people responsible for provisioning user accounts at public universities in South Africa.

In order to benefit fully, attendees should bring their own laptop, and ideally should have some familiarity with LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP) installations.

More information

The workshop website provides more information about the schedule, contents, and venue.

Organisers can be contacted at imf-2019@googlegroups.com.

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