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Edmonton Public Library becomes first public institution in Alberta to offer eduroam

This summer, the Edmonton Public Library (EPL) became the first non-post-secondary education institution in Alberta to offer eduroam, a world-wide roaming internet access service. This means any staff or students from an eduroam-connected institution โ€” such as NAIT, the University of Alberta, MacEwan University, and Concordia University of Edmonton โ€” who have eduroam set up […]

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Looking To Protect Your Students’ Data? Start With Their Login Accounts

Protecting childrenโ€™s privacy online is a top-of-mind concern for educators. But for the IT administrators tasked with this job, the โ€œhowsโ€ of doing so can be complex and multi-faceted. One good place to start is through managing the online accounts that students create to access their learning tools (such as G Suite for Education, Adobe,

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Securing Alberta Studentsโ€™ Online Identities

An online platform that helps staff and students at K-12 schools to safely and easily access third-party learning services is now available to Alberta education authorities. Pika is the first Alberta-based โ€œfederated identity managementโ€ solution to be dedicated to educators, and the only one in Canada that is offered to K-12 school districts. As well

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OpenConext Deployment: Part #3

By Andrew Klaus, former security advisor, Cybera In part two, I explained how to create the repository for configuration management, and deploy infrastructure to support the OpenConext platform. In this part, Iโ€™ll be covering how to prepare the Ansible environment, install OpenConext, and test if the installation was successful. Prerequisites Ansible and other dependencies need

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OpenConext Deployment: Part #2

By Andrew Klaus, former security advisor, Cybera In part one, I talked about what myUnifiED is and the various tools Cybera has used to deploy it. In this post, Iโ€™ll be covering how to create the repository for configuration management, and deploy infrastructure to support the OpenConext platform. To keep things simple, Iโ€™ll only create

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OpenConext Deployment: Part #1

By Andrew Klaus, former security advisor, Cybera Cybera is working on a two year pilot to create an Identity Federation for K-12 schools in Alberta, called myUnifiED. This Identity Federation will use OpenConext, an open source hub and spoke federation platform, as the technical solution. In this three part blog series, I will detail the

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