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Overview

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The purpose of the California Community Colleges Single Sign-on Federation (CCC SSO) is to provide secure, scalable, and integrated technology solutions for the California Community Colleges that take advantage of economies of scale and facilitated by governance from the colleges themselves. and a common framework for trusted shared management of access to CCC Applications.

Through the CCC SSO Federation, colleges will share in a common framework of shared management of access to secure CCC Application that can give their users single sign-on convenience and privacy protection, while online Service Providers control access to their protected resources.

Federated Identity Management

Federated Identity allows the sharing of information about users from one secure domain to the other organizations in a federation. This allows for cross-domain single sign-on and removes the need for content providers to maintain user names and passwords. Identity providers (IdP) supply user information, while service providers (SP) consume this information and give access to secure content.

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CCC SSO Federation & CCC Applications

The California Community Colleges Single Sign-on CCC SSO Federation is a shared federation of CCC colleges .

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In addition to the required proc

What is Single Sign On (SSO)?

Single Sign On (SSO) is a session and user authentication process that permits a user to enter one username and password - one time - in order to access multiple applications without having to login to each application separately. For example, when CCC students are configured for SSO, they can login to one application, such as MyPath, the Student Services Portal, and then access multiple different web applications, such as Canvas Course Management System (CMS), CCCAssess, and CCCApply, without having to login separately to each of the applications.

The SSO process involves authentication and authorization. Authentication is a confirmation that the person logging in is the person they claim to be. Authorization is a confirmation that the logged-in person is authorized to access a particular "resource" (i.e. MyPath Portal, etc.). The Tech Center has implemented a CCC IdP Proxy process to facilitate streamline integration for current and future applications.

Why implement SSO?

Implementing an SSO solution is a requirement of the CCC SSO Federation and allows participating California Community Colleges to take full advantage of the products and services offered by the CCC Technology Center (CCCTC) by allowing students, faculty, and staff to access statewide web-based information technology applications via a single sign-on account.

The benefits of SSO include

Integrating with CCC Applications

Because a student will usually initiate access to central services from their home college web site, and to avoid being presented with a IDP discovery page where the student has to choose from 110+ IDPS, the college will provide an IdP initiated SSO link to the the targeted service provider. A central IDP proxy will be invoked in order to save the students last used IDP. When linking out to other Service Providers during the same SSO session, request again will be routed though the IDP proxy so that the target service provider knows which IDP the user came from.

Why implement SSO?

Implementing an SSO solution is a requirement of the CCC SSO Federation and allows participating California Community Colleges to take full advantage of the products and services offered by the CCC Technology Center (CCCTC) by allowing students, faculty, and staff to access statewide web-based information technology applications via a single sign-on account.

The benefits of SSO include

The EduPersonPrincipalName (EPPN) is the unique identifier for a user for across all college IDPs.

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Shibboleth IdP V3
Portal Guard IdP

What is Shibboleth IdP?

Shibboleth Identity Provider Software is a single sign-on (SSO) login system that is among the world's most widely deployed federated identity systems and is a supported SSO solution of the CCC SSO Federation. It allows sign in using just one identity (username and password), connecting users to applications both within and between federations of organizations and institutions.

The Shibboleth Internet2 middleware initiative created an architecture and open-source implementation for identity management and federated identity based authentication and authorization (or access control) infrastructure based on Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML).

What is Portal Guard IdP?

Portal Guard Identity Provider Software is a single sign-on (SSO) login system, similiar to Shibboleth, however...

What is the InCommon Federation?

InCommon, operated by Internet2, provides a trust fabric for higher education, their vendors, and partners to facilitate single sign on from local campus accounts. InCommon also operates a related assurance program, and offers security certificate and multi-factor authentication services.

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The EPPN has the syntax of an email address, but it should be considered a "globally unique federated identifier" rather than an email address. It is generally the most important attribute to be shared with federated services. Note that the value of EPPN does not have to match what the user fills in as their username when they login, and the user does not need to know what their EPPN is, as it is shared between the IdP and the service. It should be unique, rarely change, and not be reassigned to another

Supply CCC's with documentation necessary to complete the following:

CCCID configuration

SSO Configuration

College Adaptor Installation

IdP Proxy

Either through in house development efforts or a combination of in house development and contract work, using a mini-grant model of funding.

Supported Configurations

The CCCTC will support the following configurations:

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Portal Guard with InCommon metadata

*Other

CCCID

A CCCID is generated when a student sets up an OpenCCC account and commonly passed to the college in the CCCApply data download.

CCCID is then stored in the college’s SIS or college LDAP/Active Directory

CCCID is passed as an attribute from the college’s IdP to the systemwide applications SP (i.e. Canvas, CCCAssess, MyPath, etc.)

CCCID is used by the systemwide application to identify the student.

SSO Configuration

Correct configuration of Shibboleth / PortalGuard (as appropriate)

IdP Student and IdP Staff

Upgraded to 3.0

Connected to InCommon Metadata

Required - Ability to pass CCCID (Student IdP only)

Ability to pass common InCommon Eduperson Attributes (EPPN Required)

https://www.incommon.org/federation/attributesummary.html

Ability to pass other Eduperson Attributes as available (Optional, but highly encouraged)

http://software.internet2.edu/eduperson/internet2-mace-dir-eduperson-201602.html

-Upgrade of Shibboleth IdP or New Implementation of Shibboleth IdP on client provided hardware and operating system software or Implement items below using client provided installation of PortalGuard

-Configuration of authentication against up to two (2) authentication sources

-Configuration of user attributes, gathering from up to three (3) supported user attribute sources

-Configuration of Metadata using InCommon’s Metadata repository

-Shibboleth Log-In Form branding for new implementations

-Validate current Admin users can authenticate to the Report Center and Administrator using the upgraded IdP

-Enable authentication using the Shibboleth IdP to CCC central services including:

Instructure’s Canvas LMS (CCMS)

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College Adaptor (completed in conjunction with CCCTC)

Pre-Work Questionnaire (completed by college)

Colleague School Questionnaire

Banner School Questionnaire