Participant Benefits: UK Federation
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 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.
Features & Benefits for UK Federation Participants
- Members can provision their users (guests, partners, vendors, contractors, consultants, subscribers) into ProtectNetwork for easy shared collaborations
- UKFederation SP sites can use ProtectNetwork SSO service for authentication and access management
- Flexible attribute release policies for UKFederation 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 UKFederation users for free
- Web based password resets for UKFederation users for free
- Leverage ProtectNetwork IdM best practices without incurring heavy cost burden
- Low cost, high value, high reliability