New InCommon Federation

New InCommon Federation

Now available both in RapidIdentity Cloud and RapidIdentity On-premise, InCommon Federation extends RapidIdentity's SSO Federation Protocols with support for the InCommon Multilateral Trust Framework that is used by Higher Education and Research organizations.

InCommon's "common framework" creates multilateral trust among all federation Participants, facilitated by the Federation Operator, to exchange identity information in a secure manner. Service Providers trust Identity Providers to provide accurate information, and Identity Providers trust Service Providers not to misuse the information they receive. Community Members trust both Identity Providers and Service Providers to respect their privacy, making use of their identity information only as needed, according to legal and institutional policy.

With this new feature, InCommon Community Members can leverage their RapidIdentity IdP to authenticate their users to access InCommon resources.

To federate RapidIdentity with InCommon, administrators create a SAML 2.0 Relying Party in RapidIdentity Federation Partners and select is InCommon to set the InCommon Refresh Interval and associated Metadata. More information on those details are available.