EDUCAUSE Publications

• 7 Things You Should Know About Federated Identity

  • January 16, 2019
  • Briefs, Case Studies, Papers, Reports
  • Contributor

  Federation is a service provided by a third party that enables participating organizations to leverage home organizations' digital identities to access partner resources by implementing a common standard for technical interoperation

• Confused about PKI? Don't Worry, IT Leaders Might Be Confused Too

  • June 8, 2016
  • Blog
  • Author

  A recent ECAR report identified public key infrastructure (PKI) as one of the 10 “least familiar technologies in the higher education IT environment. This post explores several points of confusion when it comes to understanding PKI and PKI implementations on campus.

• Public Key Infrastructure: Technology Spotlight

  • June 7, 2016
  • Briefs, Case Studies, Papers, Reports
  • Author

  Public key infrastructure (PKI) certificates form the backbone of most if not all Internet security authentication for sites and services and encrypted network transport today. Higher education is heavily invested in the technology used to create and manage these certificates. PKI supports secure data exchange and authentication over the Internet via the distribution and identification of public encryption keys.