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Identity and access management

Service portfolio
Access reliably and securely organised
Students, lecturers, researchers, staff, and guest users want simple and secure access to systems across various institutions and service providers. Collaboration, standardisation, and trust are essential to make this possible. That’s why we offer a sector-wide IT infrastructure for identity and access management: determining who has access to which systems, and when.
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The added value of SURF

Support for cooperation

Institutions collaborate by sharing expertise, establishing agreements, and developing solutions.

Easy international secure access

Users are connected both nationally and internationally, with their identity remains in the Netherlands.

Scalable and flexible access through a single interface

There are many options to tailor off-take to the needs of your institution or project.

What we offer in terms of identity and access management

SURF Access

Secure and easy access to digital resources and applications: you only need to connect once. Authorisation can be granted flexibly and by role.

Reliable identity

One reliable digital identity for everyone who wants to log in to affiliated institutions and services.

Expertise

Within the cooperative, we share knowledge and develop a vision on the topic of identity and access management, for example in workshops and knowledge sessions.

Collaboration, standardisation and trust

Within the SURF cooperative, we work towards better and more flexible research and education. We strive for safety, autonomy, inclusion and accessibility for students, teachers, researchers, staff and guest users. We support partnerships in education and research. We follow - and where necessary influence - (European) regulations. We translate these and other relevant developments into solutions for our users.

To make systems of different institutions and service providers easily accessible, collaboration, standardisation and trust are indispensable. We offer safe and user-friendly identity and access management solutions that comply with (open) standards, so that your institution can offer access to education and research under its own direction. Scalable and flexible. Linked nationally and internationally, with your identity remaining in the Netherlands.

Within SURF, the institutions collaborate on this infrastructure by:

  • sharing vision and expertise on identity and access management
  • making agreements on trust, privacy and security
  • developing and maintaining solutions for managing identities and access.

Identity and access management in practice