Participant Benefits: InCommon®
InCommon, the first nationwide U.S. identity management federation for higher education, consists of more than 100+ universities and members. 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.
Features & Benefits for InCommon Members
- InCommon SP sites can leverage ProtectNetwork for provisioning their users for access
- Flexible attribute exchange policies for InCommon SP sites
- As an outsourced Enterprise Identity service, ProtectNetwork can be leveraged as a Guest or Partner user management system
- Members that do not have their own expensive Identity Service infrastructure can simply lease the ProtectNetwork Identity service on demand
- Web based self-registration and password resets for InCommon SP users
- Leverage ProtectNetwork IdM best practices without incurring heavy cost burden
- Members do not need to invest in expensive local IdM infrastructure, simply lease such services from ProtectNetwork
- Low cost, high value, high reliability