Update: Survey Deadline - Friday, August 20 Midnight (pacific)
Cirrus Identity is gathering information about applying to college, from a digital identity management perspective.
Some of our customers may have received one or more messages from Facebook that look like the following:
Topics: Social Identity, Service Changes
Introduction from Cirrus Identity CEO, Dedra Chamberlin:
One of the biggest pain points in Higher Education is the ridiculous number of user accounts High School students have to create when applying to college. Cirrus Identity was fortunate to have an intern who recently went through the process, and was willing to blog about it! Without further ado, here is part 2 of her post...
Topics: Social Identity, College, Higher Education, Federated Identity Management, Identity and Access Management, Applying to College
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
We are thrilled to announce that Mark Rank will be joining Cirrus Identity full-time. Mark is a veteran of higher ed identity, having spent many years at the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee wrangling enterprise data and identity management systems. He left UWM to join the identity management team at UCSF, and most recently has served as a Business Analyst and Project Manager at Kaiser Permanente. Mark will serve as Cirrus Identity's Director of Product and Customer Success. There are so many hats Mark can wear, and the startup life will give him the chance to sport them all :-). Mark will officially join at the end of October, and will be attending both the Internet2 Technology Exchange and EDUCAUSE with the Cirrus Identity team.
We're happy that this year's Internet2 TechEx meeting is in our back yard! Here's what Cirrus Identity is up to at the conference:
This year, Cirrus Identity joins the ranks of Startup Alley graduates.
Topics: Higher Education, EDUCAUSE, Identity and Access Management
An Identity Management Nightmare - Part 1 of 3
This blog also published on medium.
Introduction from Cirrus Identity CEO, Dedra Chamberlin
Topics: Social Identity, College, Higher Education, Federated Identity Management, EdTech, Identity and Access Management