Many service providers (SPs) rely on externalized, attribute based access control (ABAC) to manage what end users can do. In research and academia, it is very common for an individual to have multiple relationships with an institution at the same time – any combination of student, employee, and alumni. A common way to reflect this for access control is to use the eduPerson ( https://refeds.org/eduperson) attribute called eduPersonScopedAffiliation.
This notice talks about the new Shared API Key for the Cirrus Gateway. Existing customers do not need to take any action at this time.
Topics: Social Identity, Cirrus Identity
On January 29, 2019 Cirrus Identity received an automated message from “GoogleDevelopers-noreply@google.com” with a title of “[Action Required] Google+ APIs and OAuth requests are being shutdown on March 7, 2019” (see above).
Customers have received similar messages and asked if any action is needed. This posting outlines what Cirrus Identity has already done and our recommended action for customers.
Topics: Social Identity, OpenID Connect, Service Changes
LinkedIn sent a notice titled "Important updates to the LinkedIn Developers program and APIs" to account holders that have setup API integrations. This would include any administrators that have setup LinkedIn login integrations for the Cirrus Gateway.
Topics: Social Identity, Service Changes
Cirrus Identity is carefully monitoring the October 8, 2018 Google announcement on protecting data and sunsetting Google+ APIs (https://www.blog.google/technology/safety-security/project-strobe/).
Customers of Cirrus Identity may contact support@cirrusidentity.com with specific questions or concerns.
Thanks,
Mark Rank
Director of Product and Customer Success
Topics: Social Identity, Service Changes
Cirrus Identity is carefully monitoring the September 28, 2018 Facebook security update (https://newsroom.fb.com/news/2018/09/security-update/).
Customers of Cirrus Identity may contact support@cirrusidentity.com with specific questions or concerns.
Thanks,
Mark Rank
Director of Product and Customer Success
Topics: Social Identity, Security
Some of our customers may have received one or more messages from Facebook that look like the following:
Topics: Social Identity, Service Changes
Cirrus Identity is excited to announce the release of an OAuth2 and OpenID Connect (OIDC)
authentication module for SimpleSAMLphp. This development was made possible with
sponsorship by the Big Ten Academic Alliance and technical support from the University of
Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Topics: OpenID Connect
