Federation Participant Information
1.1 The InCommon Participant Operational Practices information below is for:
InCommon Participant organization name: Â鶹ֱ²¥
The information below is accurate as of this date: April 25, 2023
1.2 Identity Management and/or Privacy information
Additional information about the Participant's identity management practices and/or
privacy policy regarding personal information can be found on-line at the following
location(s).
URL(s):
1.3 Contact information
The following person or office can answer questions about the Participant's identity
management system or resource access management policy or practice.
Name: Tom Dugas
Title or role: AVP/CISO
Email address: dugast@duq.edu
Phone (412) 396-6574 FAX (412) 396-5144
Identity Provider Information
The most critical responsibility that an Identity Provider Participant has to the Federation is to provide trustworthy and accurate identity assertions.[3] It is important for a Service Provider to know how your electronic identity credentials are issued and how reliable the information associated with a given credential (or person) is.
Community
2.1 If you are an Identity Provider, how do you define the set of people who are eligible
to receive an electronic identity? If exceptions to this definition are allowed, who
must approve such an exception?
Students, faculty, staff, retirees, affiliates and special patrons are subject to
the Â鶹ֱ²¥ policies and receive a userID. Authorized personnel in sponsoring
departments are required to submit requests for affiliates and special patrons to
Human Resources for access approval.
2.2 "Member of Community" is an assertion that might be offered to enable access to
resources made available to individuals who participate in the primary mission of
the university or organization. For example, this assertion might apply to anyone
whose affiliation is "current student, faculty, or staff."
What subset of persons registered in your identity management system would you identify
as a "Member of Community" in Shibboleth identity assertions to other InCommon Participants?
Anyone identified as current faculty, staff, student, retiree, affiliate, or special
patron
Electronic Identity Credentials
2.3 Please describe in general terms the administrative process used to establish
an electronic identity that results in a record for that person being created in your
electronic identity database? Please identify the office(s) of record for this purpose.
For example, "Registrar's Office for students; HR for faculty and staff."
The Enrollment Management Group for students and the Office of Human Resources for
faculty and staff.
The process for the establishment of electronic identity occurs for students at the
time a deposit is recorded in our ERP and the student offer is accepted.
For employees it when their complete employment information is entered into our ERP
system Banner.
2.4 What technologies are used for your electronic identity credentials (e.g., Kerberos,
userID/password, PKI, ...) that are relevant to Federation activities? If more than
one type of electronic credential is issued, how is it determined who receives which
type? If multiple credentials are linked, how is this managed (e.g., anyone with a
Kerberos credential also can acquire a PKI credential) and recorded?
LDAP is used as the principal store for usernames/passwords. Secondarily, usernames
are synced with Active Directory and ADFS.
2.5 If your electronic identity credentials require the use of a secret password or
PIN, and there are circumstances in which that secret would be transmitted across
a network without being protected by encryption (i.e., "clear text passwords" are
used when accessing campus services), please identify who in your organization can
discuss with any other Participant concerns that this might raise for them:
Passwords are not transmitted unencrypted.
2.6 If you support a "single sign-on" (SSO) or similar campus-wide system to allow
a single user authentication action to serve multiple applications, and you will make
use of this to authenticate people for InCommon Service Providers, please describe
the key security aspects of your SSO system including whether session timeouts are
enforced by the system, whether user-initiated session termination is supported, and
how use with "public access sites" is protected.
We provide SSO by virtue of the Shibboleth/IDP sign-on process. The standard IDP timeout
mechanisms are enforced. User-initiated timeouts only exist by closing out the browser.
We also have various application session timeouts and Active Directory timeouts for
endpoints based on the role and areas of responsibilities.
2.7 Are your primary electronic identifiers for people, such as "net ID," eduPersonPrincipalName,
or eduPersonTargetedID considered to be unique for all time to the individual to whom
they are assigned? If not, what is your policy for re-assignment and is there a hiatus
between such reuse?
All electronic identifiers are unique to the individual and are never reassigned.
Electronic Identity Database
2.8 How is information in your electronic identity database acquired and updated?
Are specific offices designated by your administration to perform this function? Are
individuals allowed to update their own information on-line?
The information is acquired and updated by the offices listed in 2.3 through manual
and automated scripts populating the University's enterprise systems. Individuals
cannot update their information online directly.
2.9 What information in this database is considered "public information" and would
be provided to any interested party?
Information categorized as "directory information" is considered to be public information.
Uses of Your Electronic Identity Credential System
2.10 Please identify typical classes of applications for which your electronic identity
credentials are used within your own organization.
Business Management Systems, Academic Management Systems, Library Systems, Network
and IT systems, and Emergency/Security Systems.
Attribute Assertions
Attributes are the information data elements in an attribute assertion you might make to another Federation participant concerning the identity of a person in your identity management system.
2.11 Would you consider your attribute assertions to be reliable enough to:
[YES] control access to on-line information databases licensed to your organization?
[YES] be used to purchase goods or services for your organization?
[YES] enable access to personal information such as student loan status?
Privacy Policy
Federation Participants must respect the legal and organizational privacy constraints on attribute information provided by other Participants and use it only for its intended purposes.
2.12 What restrictions do you place on the use of attribute information that you might
provide to other Federation participants? Attribute information that we provide may
only be used for the agreed upon business purpose. In may not be shared with other
parties in detail or in aggregate without our expressed written consent.
Attribute information that we provide may only be used for the agreed upon business
purpose. It may not be shared with other parties in detail or in aggregate without
our expressed written consent.
2.13 What policies govern the use of attribute information that you might release
to other Federation participants? For example, is some information subject to FERPA
or HIPAA restrictions?
Some information is restricted by FERPA, HIPAA and other laws as well as University
policies govern the release of attribute information which Â鶹ֱ²¥ might
release to Federation Participants.
Service Provider Information
Service Providers are trusted to ask for only the information necessary to make an appropriate access control decision, and to not misuse information provided to them by Identity Providers. Service Providers must describe the basis on which access to resources is managed and their practices with respect to attribute information they receive from other Participants.
3.1 What attribute information about an individual do you require in order to manage
access to resources you make available to other Participants? Describe separately
for each resource ProviderID that you have registered.
Â鶹ֱ²¥ is not currently a service provider.
3.2 What use do you make of attribute information that you receive in addition to
basic access control decisions? For example, do you aggregate session access records
or records of specific information accessed based on attribute information, or make
attribute information available to partner organizations, etc.?
N/A
3.3 What human and technical controls are in place on access to and use of attribute
information that might refer to only one specific person (i.e., personally identifiable
information)? For example, is this information encrypted?
N/A
3.4 Describe the human and technical controls that are in place on the management
of super-user and other privileged accounts that might have the authority to grant
access to personally identifiable information?
N/A
3.5 If personally identifiable information is compromised, what actions do you take
to notify potentially affected individuals?
N/A
Other Information
4.1 Technical Standards, Versions and Interoperability
Identify the version of Internet2 Shibboleth code release that you are using or, if
not using the standard Shibboleth code, what version(s) of the SAML and SOAP and any
other relevant standards you have implemented for this purpose.
IDP version 3.2.1
4.2 Other Considerations
Are there any other considerations or information that you wish to make known to other
Federation participants with whom you might interoperate? For example, are there concerns
about the use of clear text passwords or responsibilities in case of a security breach
involving identity information you may have provided?
In the case of a local identity breach, the Computing and Technology Services Information
Security Team will work with Legal Affairs to notify those impacted. If outside organizations
need to report a breach to Â鶹ֱ²¥, please use helpFREEDUQUESNE and our team will handle the local coordination.