Spotlight On: NJTrust

NJTrust is New Jersey's Identity Trust Federation. It supports collaboration among New Jersey Education and Research Institutions. A Trust Federation is a collection of institutions and vendors that want to be able to access each other's applications in a shared, secure and trusted manner. It provides a coordinated approach to verifying users' identity and what they are permitted to do.

The NJEDge federation is currently in a very early stage. We have several New Jersey Higher Education institutions that are currently participating in the pilot of the federation. The Federation is currently using Shibboleth as the technology. Once this trust fabric is built, new services can be rolled out to participating institutions simply by adding them to the Federation. Similarly, existing services can be extended to new institutions who join the Federation.

Welcoming our new Deputy Executive Director, Brian Gately

Brian Gately is NJEDge.Net's newly appointed Deputy Executive Director. With over 30 years experience in the corporate telecommunications industry Brian brings business acumen and organization to our consortium. Focusing on optimal connection strategies and services for our network, he works with our staff to evaluate and plan how each component interrelates into the infrastructure.

His management background has benefited NJEDge.Net's planning efforts and he is our main contact with the auditors and the NJIT financial services group. In his new capacity Brian is responsible for office management and project development.

NJEDge.Net is a non-profit technology consortium of academic and research institutions in New Jersey. Through its deployment of advanced Internet technologies and digital communication, NJEDge.Net supports its members in their institutional teaching and learning; scholarship; research and development; outreach programs; public service, and economic development. In providing broadband statewide network, NJEDge.Net creates an environment for interoperability to facilitate productive use of technology across the academic enterprise. NJEDge.Net introduces emerging technologies and state-of-the-art networking to its partners in academia, government and industry for inter-institutional collaboration, scholarship and research.