CIS13: Taking Education (and our future) Securely to the Cloud
Madonna Derks, Project Manager Identity and Access Management How the Identity Exchange (IDEX) by ESA will be a key component in the delivery of national infrastructure to support the adoption of web services in education in general, and the National Curriculum online in particular. In a world first, the ‘CloudDesktop’, which is a part of the IDEX solution, will have the potential to be used as an avenue to access Government/Educational applications, content and services as well as brokered third parties. The Identity and Access Management pilot coordinated by Education Services Australia (ESA) to date has seen the creation of a seamless single sign-on pathway to national resources available to teachers and students alike. The pilot demonstrated the capacity for a teacher or student to easily sign on to local systems within a school and then progress to ESA's CloudDesktop and associated resources without logging in again.
