Speaker: Kevin Morooney and Renee Shuey
Title: Identity and Trust Federations

Abstract:

There is an ever increasing need for nations, corporations and people
to be able to use and depend upon secure on-line transactions. The US
federal government, for example, has published a draft National
Strategy for Trusted Identities in Cyberspace focused on improving our
ability to identify and authenticate the organizations, individuals,
and underlying infrastructure (e.g., routers, servers, desktops,
mobile devices, software, data, etc.) involved in an on-line
transaction - http://www.dhs.gov/xlibrary/assets/ns_tic.pdf. In
Europe, there are more than 25 identity federations with at least two
providing broad national support for the communities of research and
higher education.

In the US, the leading trust federation comes from higher education
and it is called InCommon http://www.incommonfederation.org/. The
speakers will describe InCommon, its current activities and the future
of on-line trust mediation in the US.

BIO FOR KEVIN MOROONEY

Kevin Morooney, Vice Provost for Information Technology, holds a
B.S. in Engineering Science and Mechanics with an option in biomedical
engineering from Virginia Tech. He came to PSU in 1988 to provide
support for faculty using the various supercomputer centers across the
country. Over the years, he came to lead many efforts in the support
of research until his duties were expanded to include institution wide
services, the exploration of emerging technologies, while continuing
the support of research. In October 2006, Kevin took on the role of
Vice Provost for Information Technology/CIO, and is charged with
leading Information Technology Services, an organization that serves
faculty, students, and staff at all campus locations.

Kevin is in his third year of service to the InCommon Steering
Committee, and this year is the Chair of that committee. In that role,
he provides leadership for developing the future of InCommon and the
role it plays in trust services.  __________________________

BIO FOR RENEE SHUEY

Renee Shuey has worked in the ITS unit of Penn State for more than 20
years with a focus on identity and access management for almost half
of her career. She is the principal lead of the Penn State Identity
and Access Management (IAM) effort and ITS IAM Technical Architect
Group. Renee is the co chair of the InCommon Technical Architect
Committee and a member of the Internet2 Middleware Architecture
Committee for Education. She is also a co lead of the Committee on
Institutional Cooperation CIO sponsored InCommon Silver project.