CampusEAI Consortium Announces Central Authentication Service Single Sign-on Integration to myCampus Web 2.0 Portal1

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CampusEAI Consortium's myCampus Leverages CAS To Provide Secure SSO Authentication

December 4, 2009 -CampusEAI Consortium, a global not-for-profit information technology services and consulting provider, announced the immediate availability of Central Authentication Service (CAS) Single Sign-On Integration. By releasing CAS Integration to myCampus Web 2.0 Portal, CampusEAI Consortium continues to show its commitment to the Development and Implementation of Global e-Education Standards.

The myCampus CAS single sign-on protocol for Web 2.0 services permits a user to access multiple applications while providing their credentials (such as userid and password) only once. It also allows web applications to authenticate users without gaining access to a user's security credentials, such as a password.

The myCampus CAS Integration provides:

• Increased user convenience (SSO)
• Secure authentication to 3rd party applications (protecting username/passwords)
• Centralized authentication control
• Broad range of credential types including username/password, 2-factor token, x509 certificates and NTLM/Windows Native
• Wide industry support – especially among higher-education

"Leveraging the outstanding foundation provided by Jasig CAS, enhanced with support for black-box integration, bridges to additional vendor APIs, integrated administration with the myCampus platform enables us to rapidly deploy SSO at institutions regardless of size, staffing, or existing platforms." Said Jason Shao, Director of Product Development for the CampusEAI Consortium.

"CampusEAI is pleased to be able to extend both the convenience of SSO to a broader range of institutions and build upon the great work done by Jasig, Yale and others." Said Anjli Jain, Executive Director for the CampusEAI Consortium.

The CampusEAI Consortium's myCampus CAS integration has been rolled out to existing myCampus schools and is available immediately for deployment.

For more information on the CampusEAI Consortium, myCampus or CAS integration provided by the CampusEAI Consortium, contact Anjli Jain atanjli_jain@campuseai.orgto schedule an executive one-on-one session.

About myCampus

myCampus, a software-as-a service (SaaS) Web 2.0 portal solution that provides students, faculty and staff with access to their academic and social information all in one place. For more information on myCampus, visithttp://www.campuseai.org/Products/campus_portal_overview.html

About CampusEAI Consortium

CampusEAI Consortium is a global not-for-profit information technology services and consulting provider focused on helping its members implement enterprise IT solutions cost-effectively and timely. More than 260 members belong to the CampusEAI Consortium, including Albany State University, Curry College, Southwestern Community College, Waynesburg University, Georgian College and The Australian National University. For more information, visitwww.campuseai.org.

About Jasig Central Authentication Service

The Jasig Central Authentication Service was originally developed by Yale University. It has since become a Jasig project. Since the availability of the Central Authentication Service server implementation and protocol, there have been many client programs developed for "CASifying" applications such that they can use CAS for user authentication. Single sign on is a session/user authentication process that allows a user to provide his or her credentials once in order to access multiple applications. The single sign on authenticates the user to access all the applications he or she has been authorized to access. It eliminates future authentication requests when the user switches applications during that particular session. Web Single sign on works strictly with applications accessed with a web browser. The request to access a web resource is intercepted either by a component in the web server, or by the application itself. Unauthenticated users are diverted to an authenticaton service and returned only after a successful authentication. For more information, please visitwww.jasig.org/cas.

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