News & Events

Removing AuthZProxy and Pin2 Bridge Infrastructure on Wednesday Morning 12/20/23

December 18, 2023

HUIT IAM will be removing AuthZProxy and Pin2 Bridge Infrastructure on Wednesday, 12/18/23 from 11:00am to 11:30am

There is no action needed from any applications integrated with HarvardKey. IAM has already collaborated with the application owners in order to migrate or retire all registrations using AuthZProxy and Pin2. We do not foresee any interruptions to authentication services.

Thank you for your cooperation and understanding. As always, please report any issues...

Shutting Down AuthZProxy and Pin2 Bridge Instances on Monday Morning 12/18/23

December 13, 2023

HUIT IAM will be shutting down AuthZProxy and Pin2 Bridge instances on Monday, 12/18/23 from 10:00am to 10:30am

Thank you for your cooperation and understanding. As always, please report any issues to...

Harvard ORCID Connect

July 1, 2023

The Identity and Access Management (IAM) team, in collaboration with Harvard Library, have created a new hub for claiming, tracking, and connecting ORCID iDs to Harvard. ORCID is a free and unique persistent identifier that enables researchers to populate a profile with information defining who they are, as well as their research, publications, affiliations, awards, and grants. Harvard ORCID Connect interacts with Harvard affiliates to create, collect, and store their authenticated ORCID iD and track associated permissions to access that user'...

Public LDAP is being decommissioned Wednesday, June 21 at 10 am

June 7, 2023

The following announcement was sent to IAM Data Customers on Tuesday, June 6th:

IAM Data Customer,

Please be advised that IAM will be decommissioning its Public LDAP service on Wednesday, June 21st at 10am. All registered clients have been notified and have confirmed that they are no longer using this service. Stage Public LDAP has been suspended for several months.

Details:

Public LDAP Hostnames:

phonebook.iam.harvard.edu
phonebook-hu.iam.harvard.edu

Note that...

Annual Attestation for Applications Integrated with HarvardKey is Now Supported in HKAR

March 1, 2023

The IAM team is excited to announce that the HarvardKey Application Registry (HKAR) now has a new feature, Attestations, to support the annual attestation process required under the HarvardKey Application Integration Policy. During annual attestation, application owners (specifically...

PIN2 protocol support, IAM Authorization Proxy Service to be Retired by 11/30/2023

September 27, 2022

IAM will be retiring support for the PIN2 protocol and the Authorization Proxy (“AuthZProxy”) service of HarvardKey by 11/30/2023.

What action do I need to take?

If your HarvardKey-integrated application relies on the PIN2...

New Term for POIs: Harvard Sponsored Role

September 8, 2022

Effective September 22, 2022, Harvard will replace the term “Person of Interest” (POI)—used to describe roles that grant individuals temporary access to the University’s digital and physical resources for administrative or scholarly purposes—with a new term, “Harvard Sponsored Role”.

What is changing?

To reflect the new Harvard Sponsored Role term, HUIT will be updating its systems, trainings, and documentation, including:

The...

New HarvardKey Application Integration Form Published

August 18, 2022

The IAM Authentication & Authorization Services Team is pleased to announce that we have published a completely redesigned HarvardKey Application Integration form. In addition to a more intuitive format, the new form addresses information needed to comply with the recently-published HarvardKey Application Integration Policy, which took effect on August 1, 2022, and includes additional guidance for how the form should be completed....

Launch of the HarvardKey Application Integration Policy and Registry (HKAR)

August 11, 2022

We are pleased to announce that the HarvardKey Application Integration Policy was published on August 1, 2022. The policy outlines clear roles and responsibilities for both application teams and IAM and specifies compliance requirements for integrated applications.The HarvardKey...

Grouper 2.6 Upgrade Completed

May 22, 2022

IAM is pleased to announce the release of Grouper 2.6 on May 22, 2022, a significant upgrade from the prior 2.4 version. The upgrade delivers the following benefits along with minor UI enhancements. See the attached Grouper 2.6 Release Notes for more details.

Improved system performance
Allows for authorization using combined HarvardKey Light (HKL) and HarvardKey (HUID-holding) identities
Introduces more reliable provisioning to Harvard-LDAP, HLS-LDAP and University-AD
Uses container deployments to deliver updates more...

GA4 Tracking code

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