Today, an article came out in the Huffington Post offering advice about what really matters through the college application process. The key, the author Michael Mulligan, says is to "work hard, do good, and light the fires of your own genuine curiosity". We love that: "Light the fires of your own genuine curiosity." In a world where we have access to as much information as we do, the only way to standout is to be our authentic and passionate selves. YES.
As Cirrus Identity grows, all parts of our business have to change too. We have to find more desks for our team to work at, we have to formalize processes and make them scalable. You get the point.
We are thrilled to be a part of 500 Startups
3rd quarter has been a whirlwind for us here at Cirrus Identity. Our last post was about adding 4 new members to our Cirrus team. Today we want to share with you that we have joined the 500 Startups Accelerator in Mountain View, California.
IT'S BEEN A BIG MONTH FOR CIRRUS IDENTITY AND WE'VE GOT SOME EXCITING NEWS TO SHARE WITH YOU!
OUR TEAM IS GROWING
The Cirrus Identity team is growing to support our expanding customer base. Two new full-time engineers have joined the Cirrus team: Rob Urquhart, who served as the lead identity architect at Simon Fraser University for over 20 years, will be working on technical design and development as a Principal Identity Engineer. Patrick Radtke, who worked on the Stanford University identity management team for four years and spent the last year working on SAML integrations for SaaS at Jive Software, will also serve as a Principal Identity Engineer, enhancing existing and developing new services.
Topics: Cirrus Identity
We are working with Newcastle University in the motherland. Here is what their log-in process looked like before Cirrus Identity.
Topics: Social Identity, Higher Education
At the University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC), new students and their parents attend summer orientations to learn all about the campus. Parents always ask, “how can I access information about my child's course schedule, tuition, and their grades”? Up until Cirrus Identity, the answer has been, "talk to your kid!" As parents, we know that is often a difficult task as students are engrossed in their college lives. Parents need a way to check in without having to track down their sons and daughters.
Topics: Higher Education
Cirrus Identity is happy to announce that we have joined Internet2 as an Industry Partner. Internet2 and InCommon are key strategic partners in achieving our goal of streamlining access to EdTech services. In 2014, we engaged actively with the Higher Ed identity community as a part of the InCommon Affiliate program, and through regular participation in InCommon sponsored workgroups and annual conferences. As the InCommon Affiliate program makes way for new Internet2 industry alliance programs, we look forward to continued engagement with InCommon, Internet2, other Net+ providers, and especially with the EdTech community, in 2015.
Topics: EdTech, Partnerships
One of the most widely adopted unique identifiers in higher education federated identity management is eduPersonPrincipalName (ePPN), defined as part of the eduPerson LDAP schema established by Internet2’s Middleware Architecture Committee for Education (MACE-dir). Historically, ePPN is defined by a campus and includes a local, unique identifier (netID) scoped at the campus domain, e.g. netID@university.edu.
Topics: Higher Education, OpenID Connenct, SAML, Federated Identity Management, EdTech
So you’re throwing a party! And in this case, it’s a Relying Party, or as we like to call them in the Higher Education world, a Service Provider. For the sake of broader audience appeal, and to make my whole “party” analogy work, I’ll stick with “Relying Party” in this post.
Topics: Social Identity, OpenID Connenct, SAML