Dear SWITCH edu-ID announce subscribers, please consider to participate in our next event - registration is now open: TRID WG Meeting and SWITCH edu-ID Update Event, 15.5.2019: https://www.switch.ch/edu-id/events/trid-wg-2019/ And here our latest news about migrations of universities, the most wanted (and now implemented) functions and some other work we've promised: Two universities have adopted SWITCH edu-ID: ------------------------------------------ The first two universities adopting SWITCH edu-ID are University of Lucerne (February) and Distance University (March). Both migrations were slightly delayed, but ran rather smoothly: https://identityblog.switch.ch/2019/03/14/university-of-lucerne-the-edu-id-… 100'000 edu-ID accounts: ------------------------ On 25th of February 2019 the hundred-thousandth user has created his/her SWITCH edu-ID account during the registration for studies at ZHAW: https://identityblog.switch.ch/2019/03/20/100000-edu-id-accounts/ Technical Accounts: ------------------- No longer need to create fake account for test purposes: https://identityblog.switch.ch/2019/02/01/technical-accounts/ Organisation Administrator Interface: ----------------------------------- This interface provides information about activities, user and technical accounts, statistics, contacts etc. A useful tool also already before an organisation adopts SWITCH edu-ID: https://identityblog.switch.ch/2019/01/17/managing-user-affiliation-with-th… Two Factor Authentication - Two-Step Login: ----------------------------------------- An organisation or a service can now trigger that users must provide a second factor. Beside SMS also TOTP (get code via authentication app) will be implemented soon: https://identityblog.switch.ch/2018/12/19/edu-id-two-factor-authn/ edu-ID Website: ---------------- We've consolidated the information on the SWITCH edu-ID website https://www.switch.ch/edu-id Legal FAQs: ----------- Legal questions about data protection are answered on https://www.switch.ch/edu-id/about/legal/legal-faqs/ (in German and French) We hope to see you on May 15 at the yearly TRID WG meeting/ Update Event in Berne! Your SWITCH edu-ID team -- ------------------------------------------------- SWITCH Petra Kauer-Ott, SWITCH edu-ID Werdstrasse 2, P.O. Box, 8021 Zurich, Switzerland phone +41 44 268 15 15, direct +41 44 268 15 69 petra.kauer(a)switch.ch, http://www.switch.ch https://www.switch.ch/edu-id/ Working for a better digital world -------------------------------------------------