InCommon Community Survey on Assurance

The InCommon Assurance Advisory Committee is surveying InCommon participants to gauge awareness and thoughts about the InCommon Assurance Program.

As online transactions become increasingly sensitive, identity assurance is an important matter in our community. InCommon offers participants the ability to become certified at 2 different levels of identity assurance - Bronze and Silver.

You can find more information on the InCommon Assurance Program at our website: http://www.incommon.org/assurance. You can direct specific questions to assurance-survey@incommon.org.

Thank you for taking a few minutes to share your thoughts.

Please complete the survey by the end of the day Monday, Sept. 21, after which we will compile and share the results.

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* 1. Are you aware of the InCommon Bronze and Silver Assurance Profiles?

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* 2. Is your institution interested in implementing either the InCommon Bronze or Silver Assurance Profile for any Identity Provider (IdP) you operate?

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* 3. Are you aware of any SPs that require InCommon Bronze or Silver Assurance Profiles for authentication?

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* 4. Does your institution have any users that need access to any Service Provider (SP) that requires an InCommon Bronze or Silver Assurance Profile?

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* 5. Are their services your institution would like to use, but cannot because your IdP lacks a required assurance profile?

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* 6. Apart from having a Bronze or Silver certification, the Bronze and Silver specifications set forth best practices for operating at Level of Assurance 1 and 2 respectively. In what circumstances would it be valuable to your organization to be able to self-assert that your operation meets either of these specifications?

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* 7. What is your perception of the VALUE of implementing a Bronze and/or Silver Assurance Profile?

  1 (Not valuable) 2 3 4 5 (Extremely valuable) I don't know
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* 8. What is your perception of the EASE of implementing a Bronze and/or Silver Assurance Profile?

  1 (Very difficult) 2 3 4 5 (Very easy) I don't know
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* 9. What specific components of assurance do you value the most (check all that apply)?

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* 10. Are you aware of federated authentication contexts that require or that you think should require multi-factor authentication?

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* 11. If there existed an InCommon Multi-Factor Authentication Assurance Profile that asserted compliance with certain community standards in implementing multi-factor authentication, would you be interested in attaining such a profile?

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* 12. Are you aware of any other federated use cases where it would be valuable to have other Assurance Profiles for IdPs or even SPs to be able to assert?

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* 13. If you have any other thoughts on InCommon Assurance Profiles and how they could better serve your needs, we are eager to hear them. Please enter them into the textbox below.

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