Partners: Participant Benefits
The goal of the ProtectNetwork partner program is to help our partners enhance their current solution offerings with the ProtectNetwork SSO Solutions for their customers. Here is a sample of some of our current partners:
INCOMMON, INTERNET2, USA
InCommon, the first nationwide U.S. identity management federation for higher education, has added more than three hundred content providers, service providers and universities to its growing online trust community. Since its inception in 2004, InCommon has seen exponential growth in its participation and anticipates this trend will continue as more and more universities and their resource provider partners see the benefits of leveraging federated identity management to ensure easy, scalable and secure access to protected online materials.
KANTARA
Kantara Initiative’s mission is to foster identity community harmonization, interoperability, innovation, and broad adoption through the development of open identity specifications, operational frameworks, education programs, deployment and usage best practices for privacy-respecting, secure access to online services.
KNOWLEDGE ID, GCC
Knowledge ID Federation (KID) provides a national production environment of an access management federation in the GCC Region. Members of the KID Federation are either identity providers or service providers or both and include government ministries, medical colleges, higher-ed universities and research organizations nationwide.
LEARN, Texas
The Lonestar Education and Research Network (LEARN) is a cooperative effort of 34 institutions and organizations of higher education in Texas to provide high-speedl connectivity among their institutions as well as to research networks around the world in support of the higher education’s research, teaching, health care, and public service missions.
SWAMI, SWEDEN
The Swedish Alliance for Middleware Infrastructure, SWAMI, is the organisation for middleware cooperation in the Swedish higher education community. It is financed by its members and by Sunet.
The goal of SWAMI is to build a sustainable organisational framework for, mutually beneficial, cooperation in matters relating to an infrastructure for authentication and authorization within the Swedish higher education community.
UK ACCESS MANAGEMENT, United Kingdom
The UK Access Management Federation for Education and Research provides a single solution to access online resources and services for education and research. The federation has added over five hundred institutions as service providers or identity providers or both.
The federation uses the standards-based Shibboleth software, developed by the Internet2 community in the United States. Shibboleth defines a common framework for access management that is being adopted by education and commercial sectors across the world.