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Why The Change?

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.

What happened?

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.

What happened?

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.

What’s Changing?

LinkedIn has released updates to their APIs and Cirrus Identity will be updating our service to use these new versions. No action is required and no application changes are needed. Your application will still use the same api key/secret, and will still get the same attributes from LinkedIn.

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

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

Some of our customers may have received one or more messages from Facebook that look like the following:

AN IDENTITY MANAGEMENT NIGHTMARE - PART 2 OF 3

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...