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[edit] IDENTITY MANAGEMENT 3 - Australian Access Federation: Grass Roots and Beyond
- Monday 23 July 2007
- 9.00am (Perth)
- 11.00 am (AEST)
- 1.00pm (Auckland)
AARNet with support from NMI-EDIT (Internet2 and EDUCAUSE) and the Asia Pacific Advanced Network (APAN) Middleware Working Group will hold an Ozeconference/information primer for the APAN community on identity management. This is the third of three sessions on this topic.
[edit] Audience
The audience for this Ozeconference is Directors, Senior Managers, IT Administrators and anyone with an interest in Identity Access Mgt and Middleware within ARENs, Universities and Research organisations.
[edit] Abstract
Sharing data, systems and research infrastructure, in a secure way, between different Australian Research Organisations, such as universities and research agencies presents a difficult problem, both technically and from a policy perspective. There is a lack of technical methods and little or no policy framework to support sharing between organisations, even once technical challenges are overcome.
In order to facilitate the trusted electronic communications and collaboration within and between institutions of higher education and research in Australia, and between these institutions and other organizations worldwide the development of a trust federation in which its members agree to abide by a common set of rules, policies and agreements is necessary.
The Australian Government Department of Education, Science and Training in order to address this requirement is funding a project called the Australian Access Federation (AAF), which will develop the federation policy framework and deploy the infrastructure required to enable access to online resources and services for the Australian higher education and research sector. The infrastructure deployed is based on two technologies: Shibboleth and Public Key Infrastructure.
The AAF will support a range of services, including authentication and authorization, and builds substantially on the work undertaken by two existing DEST funded projects. These are the e-Security Framework project, based at the University of Queensland, and the MAMS (Meta Access Management System project), based at Macquarie University.
This presentation will provide the background history of the Australian Access Federation (AAF), the progress of the current testbed federation and will discuss the approach to be taken in establishing the AAF.
[edit] About the Speakers
[edit] Viviani Paz
Viviani is the Security Assurance Manager for AusCERT (The Australian National Computer Emergency Response Team) based at The University of Queensland. Prior to joining AusCERT in 1995, Viviani worked in a range of IT areas including: system and network security; system programming and administration; and software testing and verification in the Commercial and Academic sectors for over a decade.
Viviani is the Policy Designer and Project Manager for the eSecurity Framework Project, in which a PKI environment is being developed to assist Australian Universities' collaboration and interoperation. She is also the Project Manager for the Australian Access Federation Project (AAF). The AAF project will develop the federation policy framework and deploy the infrastructure required to enable access to online resources and services for the Australian higher education and research sector. The infrastructure deployed is based on two technologies: Shibboleth and Public Key Infrastructure.
The Australian Computer Emergency Response Team (AusCERT) provides a single, trusted point of contact in Australia for the Internet community to deal with computer security incidents and their prevention. AusCERT's mission is to support and improve community awareness, representation and communication regarding computer security, both locally and internationally, by being the leading source of impartial and reliable computer security information and expertise for its members.
AusCERT is a full member of the international Forum of Incident Response and Security Teams, FIRST and Asia Pacific Computer Emergency Response Team (APCERT).
[edit] Neil Witheridge
Neil holds a Masters of Engineering Science degree from University of Sydney, Australia, and has 20+ years experience working in software engineering for government and commercial R&D organisations. Neil joined Macquarie University in 2004 as Project Manager for the MAMS Project, a national identity and access infrastructure project for the Australian higher education sector. Neil is currently the Program Manager for the MAMS Project.
[edit] How to participate in an Ozeconference?
If you are interested in participating, please provide the following details; your name, Institution, Email, Telephone (during conference) and IP Address to Jason Bordujenko <mailto:Jason.Bordujenko@aarnet.edu.au> or Tanya Ballat <mailto:%20Tanya.Ballat@aarnet.edu.au> so that we can support you.
[edit] How to Connect?
- H.323 USING A GATEKEEPER
- Dial 6126211 2646 (no spaces) or (GDS 006126211 2646).
- USING THE 'FREE LOVE' GATEKEEPER
- If you don't have your own Gatekeeper, the public Gatekeeper is available at http://www.aarnet.edu.au/services/video/#gk
- HOW TO WATCH USING WEB STREAMING
- http://mcu.aarnet.edu.au/conference_stream.html?name=OzeConf
- username is guest - no password.
- H.323 USING AN IP ADDRESS
- Call 138.44.1.134 and when prompted send 6126211 2646# You will need to know how to tell your video terminal to send digits
- On the Polycom you press the * first. By special prior arrangement we can get the conference unit to call you.
- USING A TELEPHONE
- Call 02 6211 2646
[edit] If you are having problems connecting?
- realtimecomms@aarnet.edu.au
- phone
- +61 7 3317 9572
- mobile
- +61 41 282 4549
