In March, the 2025 REFEDS MFA Profile Working Group convened weekly to address emerging requirements for robust, phishing-resistant authentication mechanisms across the Research and Education (R&E) community. The Working Group aims to update the REFEDS MFA Profile to allow for signalling the use of phishing-resistant MFA, and submit the proposed revisions to community consultation by the end of 2025.| REFEDS
Introduce Phishing-Resistant MFA Support| REFEDS
By Alex Stuart (JISC) How did we get here Federation operators have rules for entity registration to ensure a good user experience within that federation. These rules are typically published in aRead More...| REFEDS
REFEDS publishes standards and specifications used by the global research and education community. Together, these standards enable scalable, secure, and seamless federated access. As our community grows and matures, these specifications haveRead More...| REFEDS
To find information about federations requires that you go to each and every one of the federations you’re interested in and manually gather the information or go to a service that hasRead More...| REFEDS
by David Walker Heather Flanagan’s recent blog post, The Changing Face of Federation, is an excellent look forward to the future of identity federations and what federations must do to remain relevant.Read More...| REFEDS
This was originally posted on the GÉANT Connect website and is reposted here. CONNECT44 contained an article summarizing 20 years of Federated Identity Management in the GÉANT community. This article was originallyRead More...| REFEDS
Research & Education (R&E) Identity Federations have traditionally been about authenticating an individual. That has worked for R&E federations for nearly two decades and put R&E ahead in efficiently offering a criticalRead More...| REFEDS
by Fredrik Domeij The update of the Profile has been quite a journey. It started in the Fall of 2020 when the National Institute of Health in the U.S. announced a timelineRead More...| REFEDS
by Kyle Lewis, RAF WG Chair| REFEDS
By Heather Flanagan (REFEDS coordinator)| REFEDS
The Security Incident Response Trust Framework for Federated Identity (Sirtfi) aims to enable the coordination of incident response across federated organisations. This assurance framework comprises a list of assertions which an organisation can attest in order to be declared Sirtfi compliant. Visit our Wiki to discover how your organisation can prepare itself for Federated Incident Response with Sirtfi.| REFEDS
REFEDS MFA Profile| REFEDS