Cirrus Identity Solutions
The experienced Cirrus team will help you implement solutions to simplify and secure your identity and access management environment!
Streamline Access for
External Users, Sponsors & Guests
Great for applicants, alumni, parents, continuing ed, contractors and more!
Easily Utilize
InCommon & eduGAIN Services
Outsource integration and maintenance for federation services and applications!
Secure SSO Logins to
Applications for Many Institutions
Users login with their institutional username and password!
Integrate Applications with
Single Sign-On Protocol Translation
Managed solution enables login to applications with different protocols.
Many research and scholarship applications are provided through the eduGAIN federations including InCommon.
Cirrus supports multilateral federation and helps institutions quickly integrate. Then, faculty, staff and students can use their institutional username and password to login to services.
These are some of the commonly used applications by Cirrus customers.
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Cirrus Solution Overview:
Easily Federate SSO for InCommon & eduGAIN
Challenges Solved
Consolidate on Azure AD, Okta, Duo or another IdP and move to a cloud hosted and managed solution that supports multilateral federation.
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New to InCommon services (or another national federation)? No need to install, administer, patch and upgrade Shibboleth.
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Easily move to a cloud-first hosting strategy. No need to recruit and retain Shibboleth skills and no more on-prem infrastructure.
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Provide a software solution to the higher ed and research community? Cirrus supports multilateral federation for easy access by all institutions.
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Improve the User Experience
Streamline access for researchers, faculty, staff and students to InCommon / eduGAIN applications!
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IT & Support Cost Savings
Eliminate infrastructure and system administration costs
Avoid recruiting and retaining specialized staff skills and redirect resources to higher priorities
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Reduce Technical Risk
Move to cloud hosting for greater redundancy and availability - no need to patch and upgrade anymore
Customers Love Us!
"It was a top priority to shorten the implementation time frame."
Michele Decker
Manager, IAM Services
"Totally transparent to the end users! There was no impact to them even in the slightest. We didn’t have a good path forward without the Cirrus Bridge. Getting identity and authentication in the cloud greatly improves our disaster recovery preparedness. We were able to retire the ADFS infrastructure and will be able to retire the legacy CAS infrastructure soon."
Richard Toeniskoetter
CIO
"We didn’t have the time to implement Shibboleth and were happy not to. Good possibilities without the hassle. We can react to new security requirements - easy, fast and compliant."
Billy Angers
Chargé de projet TI
Solution High Level Architecture:
Easily Federate SSO for InCommon & eduGAIN
High Level Architecture for Institutions (Identity Providers)
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High Level Architecture for Applications (Service Providers)
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Solution Products:
Easily Federate SSO for InCommon & eduGAIN
Provides a SAML federation adapter that supports Azure AD, Okta, Google and other commercial identity providers to connect to services provided through InCommon and all eduGAIN federations. No need to install and support Shibboleth.
Enables logins to an application from multiple federated identity providers. Also includes an intuitive and configurable login discovery service. The proxy supports sophisticated attribute translation as well as SAML, CAS and OIDC protocols.
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An option to redirect authentication traffic from the existing Identity Provider to the Cirrus SAML Bridge without having to reconfigure each service. The DNS add-on speeds implementations when many existing services are integrated.
An option to include required authentication attributes that are not stored in the primary Identity Provider. LDAP can be accessed or an API can be configured to access other data stores.
Who Benefits from the Solution?
Easily Federate SSO for InCommon & eduGAIN
End Users
Higher Education, Research & Enterprise
Students
Faculty & Staff
Researchers
Users from Other Institutions
Industries
Higher Education
Small Private Colleges
Large Public Universities
R1 Institutions
Community Colleges
State Systems
Regional Networks and Consortiums
Research
NIH Research Labs
Research Grant Collaborations
Technology
Software Development
Services for Higher Ed & Research
Identity and Access Management Consulting Services
Stakeholders
Functional Offices
Career Center
Library
Research & Grants Offices
IT Services
Identity & Access Management
Security & Privacy
Systems Architects
Enterprise Applications
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