myCampus Single Sign-On Overview
The growth of internet usage and proliferation of service s and software at colleges and Universities has produced an increasingly complex services environment. Demands by increasingly sophisticated users among students and faculty, a need for cutting edge tools to support teaching an d learning, and pressures to provide cost and efficiency savings through automat ion and online self-service have resulted in a massive increase in the number of online services which an average user may have access to.
As these services have proliferated, so have demands to manage authentication and security multiplied. Reduced//Single-sign On (SSO) systems have emerged as a key requirement in the modern distributed computing environment.. These systems exist to address a number of key institutional pain points:
- Convenience for users looking to access multiple systems
- Integration inn workflows/user experience when spanning multiple systems
- Costs of user-support lo ad related to password, username, and credentials
- Security of services located both on and off-site
To support these needs, CampusEAI has engineered a comprehensive security and SSO platform into the myCampus portal, built on best-of b reed open-source and community developed technologies, and targeted at easing integration with systems common in Higher-Education.
Architecture
The myCampus SSO architecture consists of a number of core components, which allow for a variety of strategies for SSO integration. The major components are:
- CAS & CAS Clear pass: Integrated Jasig CAS 3.3 SSO Server
- QuickLaunch: a CampusEAI developed Black-box SSO Integration framework
- myCampus: used to expose, and manage SSO integrations
This SSO architecture forms a core component of the overall myCampus Service architecture, (illustrate d below), enabling not only direct SSSO integration to services, but also providing a base capability which is built on by other services like dashboards, summaries, and notifications too provide “actionable intelligence” paired with an easy escalation into a full-service, native web client.
For more information about myCampus Single Sign-On, please send an e-mail to membership@campuseai.org
