WUGEN has been a well-loved tool for over a decade, helping librarians generate WAYFLess URLs that provide Single Sign On (SSO) authentication to the resources that students, staff and alumni need. Like all good things, however, technology developments have led to the WUGEN requiring a refresh, and so we are excited to announce its next generation.
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The UK federation is arguably one of the largest SAML federations in the Research and Education sector, with over 1200 member organisations spanning Higher Education (HE) and Further Education (FE), and with significant representation from the research and commercial sectors. We are a trust broker. A level playing field. We help people securely access […]
If you work on managing or developing Research and Education federations – or are simply curious about browser privacy – this post is for you. We delve into the navigational tracking mitigations currently implemented in major web browsers. In a follow-up post, we will present experiments that examine the impact of these mitigations on the […]
If your institution is considering the move to single sign-on (SSO) solutions, you might find colleagues asking; what does this mean? And what are the benefits? In short, an SSO authentication platform provides simple access control for authentication and authorisation for a whole organisation. In simple terms, this means users only need a single username […]