Our final year as a Startup Alley graduate!
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: Identity and Access Management, Applying to College, Social Identity, College, Higher Education, Federated Identity Management, Identity Management
This year, Cirrus Identity joins the ranks of Startup Alley graduates.
Topics: EDUCAUSE, Higher Education, Identity Management
An Identity Management Nightmare - Part 1 of 3
This blog also published on medium.
Introduction from Cirrus Identity CEO, Dedra Chamberlin
Topics: EdTech, College, Higher Education, Federated Identity Management, Identity Management, Social 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
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