Participant Benefits: InCommon®
InCommon, the first nationwide U.S. identity management federation for higher education, consists of more than 250+ universities and corporate 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
- Members can provision their users (guests, partners, vendors, contractors, consultants, subscribers) into ProtectNetwork for easy shared collaborations
- InCommon SP sites can use ProtectNetwork SSO service for authentication and access management
- Flexible attribute release policies for InCommon 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
- Discounted pricing for member institutions who wish to lease the ProtectNetwork Cloud SSO Solutions
- Web based self-registration of user accounts for InCommon users for free
- Web based password resets for InCommon users for free
- Leverage ProtectNetwork IdM best practices without incurring heavy cost burden
- Low cost, high reliability, high ROI