Local Authority
Shibboleth

I2Q can help you to your Shibboleth solution

I2Q are acknowledged as industry experts in Shibboleth, we are looking to put this into practise by working with as many Local Authorities, LEPS, RCBs and service providers as possible. We expect that we can provide a cost effective, planned approach to helping to initiate a Shibboleth project through to implementing a complete system.

Shibboleth

To maximise the benefits of a National Education Network (NEN), an effective authentication system is required. Becta has worked with JISC and UKERNA to develop the UK Access Management Federation. This federation will provide the UK schools, further and higher education and research sectors with a framework for accessing online learning material using technology such as Shibboleth. This will provide institutions with a route to single sign-on to resources through the implementation of federated, devolved authentication.

Shibboleth consultancy

Through our work with ContentStream, i2Q have been at the forefront of identity management and authentication for several years. We worked with WMNet to deliver one of BECTAs early pilot Shibboleth projects. The knowledge gained on these pilots has been used to enable numerous other Local Authorities and publishers to set them.

Shibboleth Roadmap.

An outcome of the WMNet pilot was the Shibboleth Roadmap (add URL). This was developed to give West Midland LAs a really useful starting point as to what Shibboleth is and how it can be implemented. Please click here to download a PDF however it is A2 and you may prefer to contact us and request a hard copy

Identity Management audit

i2q are experienced in helping local authorities, LEPs and Regional Broadband Consortia to carry out identity management audits. This involves a few days of consultation as we identity the state of data infrastructure, and make recommendations as to the possibilities of implementing shibboleth across school and LEA directories, relevant extensions to the eduperson schema, IDentity provider hosting options, enabling LA delivered services as Service Providers and wrapping the whole solution up in a service layer to simplify the day to day management.

Shibboleth for Service Providers

We welcome approaches from publishers, platform vendors and LAs looking to set their existing services up as Shibboleth Service Providers.