CC*IIE IAM: Enhancing Vassar Research and Collaboration through Identity and Access Management

该项目通过实施身份和访问管理（IAM）系统加强了瓦萨学院的研究合作。 IAM支持分布式科学研究工作和其他具有更广泛影响的应用程序的访问和安全性。瓦萨大学的研究人员积极参与校内和校外的多学科合作研究，这些项目定期收集和交换数据与研究合作者和团队在虚拟组织（VO）的其他机构。 瓦萨学院的研究人员以前面临的挑战是创建和管理对这些VO至关重要的身份、组和权限，并且创建和管理研究项目所需的过程的大部分手动性质正在成为实际研究本身的障碍。IAM 1）提供了一个自动化系统，该系统提供对科学研究VO的集中管理，以支持分布式科学研究; 2）加强机构间的研究合作，使研究人员能够使用校园登录访问合作机构的资源; 3）使研究人员能够利用外部资源进行更大的科学研究合作，如第二代互联网和其他研究和教育（R& E）网络;以及4）通过一系列科学研究工具更广泛地使用现有的目录服务。

This project enhances research collaboration at Vassar College through the implementation of an Identity and Access Management (IAM) system. The IAM supports access to and security of distributed scientific research efforts and other applications with broader impacts. Vassar researchers are actively engaged in collaborative intra- and extramural multidisciplinary research, and these projects regularly collect and exchange data with research collaborators and teams at other institutions in Virtual Organizations (VOs). Vassar College researchers were previously challenged to create and manage the identities, groups and permissions crucial to these VOs, and the largely manual nature of the processes required to create and administer a research project was becoming an impediment to the actual research itself.The IAM 1) provides an automated system that provides centralized management of science research VOs in support of distributed science research; 2) enhances inter-institutional research collaboration allowing researchers to use their campus login to access resources at partner institutions; 3) positions researchers to leverage external resources for greater science research collaboration such as Internet2 and other Research and Education (R&E) Networks and 4) enables wider use of existing directory services by an array of science research tools.