by Mr Chad La Joie (SWITCH)

Europe/Zurich
IT Auditorium (CERN)

IT Auditorium

CERN

Description

This talk will give a basic introduction to the components of Shibboleth and the SAML protocols that it implements. After which the primary focus will be on the component used to protect resources (as opposed to the component which performs the actual authentication and is integrated with an organization's identity management system). Finally, the talk will wrap up with some troubleshooting suggestions.

About the speaker

Chad La Joie is a software engineer within the Grid and AAI teams at SWITCH, Switzerland's national research and education network organization. In addition to his position at SWITCH he also serves as the technical co-lead of the Shibboleth project. His primary work efforts focus on identity management systems and improving the security of distributed systems. In addition he has worked in the areas of bio-informatics, natural language processing, disease and biological agent transmission detection and modeling, and various other topics.

Organised by

Gianni Pucciani / IT-Grid Deployment