InCommon

On Thursday and Friday, June 11-12, the Ohio Technology Consortium (OH-TECH) welcomed 45 technologists representing colleges and universities from Ohio and other states who arrived here to study an important emerging security technology. These systems administrators, identity managers and developers packed the BALE Theater and Conference Room to take part in the InCommon Shibboleth Workshop [https://www.incommon.org/shibtraining/] and learn how to implement federated identity management software.

In the early years of the Internet, there was a cartoon that depicted a dog sitting at a computer. The caption read, “On the Internet, no one knows you’re a dog.” Today, that caption might instead read, “On the Internet, not only do we know you’re a dog, but we know your breed, your pawprint and your preferred dog food.” As the Internet has grown, it’s become harder to protect our personal information from prying eyes.