Expertise Needed for the Federated Identity Management Governance Group

April 4th, 2019

E-Enterprise Federated Identity Management co-chairs Mary Montoya of the New Mexico Environment Department and Chuck Freeman of U.S. EPA are currently soliciting partners to join a new E-Enterprise governance group focused on identity management. The Federated Identity Management Governance Group is open to state, tribal and U.S. EPA officials (more information on qualifications below).

 The group will focus on the development and maintenance of a set of standards, terms of use, levels of assurance, service levels, and security polices to reinforce trust among partners using the E-Enterprise Federated Identity Management system. Topics for governance consideration will be identified and prioritized to facilitate adoption of this technology by E-Enterprise Partners. Topics will be sized appropriately to ensure resolution in no longer than a two-month period. Resolution will rely on input and recommendations from working groups with expert knowledge on the topic under consideration such as the Shared CROMERR Services working group, or the Portal team. The governance group will present the results of the work on a quarterly basis to the Interoperability and Operations Team (IOT).

 Potential members will possess the following qualifications:

  • Available to contribute to biweekly meetings initially.
  • Have a firm understanding of federated identity management concepts: “A network of enterprises (partners) allow users to choose from a set of Identity Providers for authentication that provides access to a set of trusted web resources (Relying Parties). Relying Parties are responsible for authorizing user roles to perform functions within the web resource.”
  • Have a firm understanding of existing federated identity management models currently used such as: OpenID Connect, OpenID, OAuth, OASIS SAML, Windows Identity Framework.  Active Directory experience alone is not adequate.
  • Business Analysts, IT Managers, IT Application Architects or IT Security Policy Administrators with direct experience in identity management use cases at the browser tier, as well as at the cross-domain application to application tier.

 If you are interested in joining the group or have questions, please contact Kristen Durance (kdurance@rossstrategic.com ) and she will be sure to connect you to the appropriate team lead.