NGS Seminar: Moonshot - next generation federated identity

Federated identity yields significant benefits for users and services by increasing the usability of services, reducing identity management costs and improving regulatory compliance.

A number of different technical strategies for federating identity have emerged during the past decade, with differing levels of success. These technologies address different types of use case, resulting in significant complexity for both users, services and trust infrastructure providers. 

This complexity impedes the adoption of services and increasing operational costs. Moreover, there are many use cases where these technologies do not provide a solution.

Project Moonshot is an ambitious Janet-led initiative, building on existing deployed technologies, that aim to develop a single unified and standardised approach that satisfies all of the authentication and authorisation requirements of the education & research community. Much of the technology has now been implemented, and is now being tested within the Janet Moonshot Technology Pilot.

This presentation will provide an overview of some of the motivating use cases for Moonshot and an overview of the technology and the implementation.

The slides for the seminar are available here to download.

How to take part

To join the seminar please use EVO which requires free registration.  We recommend that you do this at least a day in advance of the seminar.  To join the seminar please go to http://bitly.com/EVOUrbis which will take you directly to the seminar room.  We have prepared a simple guide to using EVO which you may find useful.

The seminar will also be available through Access Grid.  Using the Access Grid toolkit join the "VRVS - Urbis" Virtual Venue.  If you are using IOCOM you'll find this Venue in the UK shared Venues drop-down list. 

You can note your attendance at this event on our Facebook event page.

If you have any questions regarding the seminar please contact the NGS helpdesk.