Identity and Access Management

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...

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...

After rollout of the POI Policy and Portal last month we received a number of policy questions and requests for exceptions. This feedback was brought to the POI Policy Working Group and several revisions were made to the policy that go into effect today...

The fourth sprint of the 17th quarter of IAM development is complete. The details of Sprint 4 are as follows: Quarter 3 (PI-17) Feature Progress Committed features 20 change % of total In Progress 10 60% To Do 0 0% Complete/Deferred 3 +1 40% Changes to...

Harvard Wiki has integrated with Group Services which enables wiki administrators to apply site permissions to groups of people. This replaces the prior use of iSties groups. As of January 10, 2018, IAM Group Services is live in the wiki and iSites groups...

With just a few days notice, over 50 HUIT employees responded to a request to run through the functionality included in the HarvardKey 3.0 release in a testing session held on Friday, September 9th. These testers help to refine the actual user experience...

For the first time in the history of Harvard College, every member of the incoming class had their login credential and email accounts provisioned before they even arrived on campus! The Class of 2020 claimed their HarvardKeys upon receiving their...

The Identity & Access Management Program will be featured in the upcoming FAS Technology Renewal Demo Days in late March/early April. To get more details and to sign-up visit: http://huit.harvard.edu/demo-days

2015 has been a sweeping year for Harvard University Information Technology (HUIT), particularly in the area of "technology renewal" — an extensive cross-team effort that brought changes including the new my.harvard portal from the Student Information...

While the launch of the new HarvardKey authentication system this fall has meant highly visible front-end improvements for users, a significant portion of go-live efforts for HarvardKey involved extensive work aligning data and behind-the-scenes processes...