Participant Benefits: 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.
Features & Benefits for Kantara Members
- Member institutions use ProtectNetwork as a fully managed and hosted SSO authentication cloud service
- Kantara sites use ProtectNetwork SSO service for authentication and access management
- Flexible attribute exchange policies for Kantara sites
- Kantara members provision their users (guests, partners, vendors, contractors, consultants, subscribers) into ProtectNetwork for easy shared collaborations
- Discounted pricing for member institutions who wish to lease the ProtectNetwork Cloud SSO Solutions
- Web based self-registration of user accounts for Kantara users
- Web based password resets for CAF users
- Leverage ProtectNetwork IdM best practices without incurring heavy cost burden
- Low cost, high value, high reliability