Participant Benefits: Edugate
HEAnet has launched the Edugate federation to serve the Irish education and research community. An Irish federation will offer future potential to establish peerings with other federations across Europe and worldwide, permitting cross-federation sharing of resources supporting international collaboration. HEAnet intends to recruit a small number of early adopter Identity Providers and Service Providers to establish the first pilot stage build of an Irish federation.
Features & Benefits for Edugate Members
- Members can provision their users (guests, partners, vendors, contractors, consultants, subscribers) into ProtectNetwork for easy shared collaborations
- Edugate SP sites can use ProtectNetwork SSO service for authentication and access management
- Flexible attribute release policies for Edugate SP sites
- Members can Register for an Admin Account and upload their users in bulk or add SP sites via simple point and click interface
- Member institutions do not need to invest in deploying/managing expensive local IdM infrastructure, they can simply lease the ProtectNetwork Cloud SSO Services on demand
- Web based self-registration of user accounts for Edugate users for free
- Web based password resets for Edugate users for free
- Leverage ProtectNetwork IdM best practices without incurring heavy cost burden
- Low cost, high value, high reliability