"Security Made Simple With NCSA's CILogon"

Almost everyone in the digital age has likely, at some point, needed to access cloud-stored documents and data but forgot their password and had to create a new identity. For researchers with allocations for high-performance computing and services across multiple locations, that situation can result in delayed progress on important scientific efforts and questionable online security. CILogon, a software development effort at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign's National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA), was launched to facilitate secure logins to scientific cyberinfrastructure. Using CILogon, users can access any online location at which they or their research group have an allocation using credentials from their primary organization. According to the researchers behind CILogon, it is as easy and seamless as logging into a Google or Facebook account, allowing researchers to access resources located on different sites without requiring Information Technology (IT) support to create new identities. This article continues to discuss the goals, development, and applications of NCSA's CILogon. 

The University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign reports "Security Made Simple With NCSA's CILogon"