Participant Name:_____University of Victoria___

Canadian Access Federation: Trust Assertion Document (TAD)

1. Purpose
A fundamental requirement of Participants in the Canadian Access Federation is that they assert
authoritative and accurate identity attributes to resources being accessed, and that Participants
receiving an attribute assertion protect it and respect privacy constraints placed on it by the
asserting Participant.
To accomplish this practice, CANARIE requires Participants to make available to all other
Participants answers to the questions below.

1.1 Canadian Access Federation Requirement

Currently, the community of trust is based on best effort and transparency of practice. Each
Participant documents, for other Participants, their identity and access management practices,
which they can confidently meet. Each Participant should make available to other Participants
basic information about their identity management system and resource access management
systems registered for use within the Canadian Access Federation. The information would
include how supported identity attributes are defined and how attributes are consumed by
services.

1.2 Publication
Your responses to these questions must be:
1. submitted to CANARIE to be posted on the CANARIE website; and
2. posted in a readily accessible place on your web site.
You must maintain an up-to-date Trust Assertion Document.

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2. Canadian Access Federation Participant Information

2.1.1. Organization name: University of Victoria
2.1.2. Information below is accurate as of this date: 2013-03-18

2.2 Identity Management and/or Privacy information

2.2.1. Where can other Canadian Access Federation Participants find additional information

about your identity management practices and/or privacy policy regarding personal
information?
Identity Management: http://www.uvic.ca/systems/services/loginspasswords/index.php
Protection of Privacy Policy:
http://www.uvic.ca/universitysecretary/assets/docs/policies/GV0235.pdf

2.3 Contact information

2.3.1. Please list person(s) or office who can answer questions about the Participants identity

management system or resource access management policy or practice.

Name:

Garry Sagert | Director, UVic Online | [email protected] | 250.721.7692

Corey Scholefield | Sr. Identity Systems Analyst, UVic Online |

[email protected] | 250.472.4549

3. Identity Provider Information

Two criteria for trustworthy attribute assertions by Identity Providers are: (1) that the identity
management system be accountable to the organizations executive or business management,
and (2) the system for issuing end-user credentials (e.g., userids/passwords, authentication
tokes, etc.) has in place appropriate risk management measures (e.g. security practices, change
management controls, audit trails, accountability, etc.).

3.1 Community
3.1.1. As an Identity Provider, how do you define the set of people who are eligible to receive an

electronic identity? If exceptions to this definition are allowed, who must approve such an
exception?

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The identity management system restricts access to electronic identity to only those
individuals that meet specific criteria in our local systems of record (SOR). The main SOR
sources are:

Banner Human Resources

Banner Student Records

Continuing Studies Student Records System

Exceptions are made for UVic guests, who must be sponsored by an active UVic Faculty
or Staff members. Guests have time-bounded access to local resources.
3.1.2. What subset of persons registered in your identity management system would you identify

as a Participant in SAML identity assertions to CAF Service Providers?

SAML identity assertions would be generally restricted to standards-track values assigned
to the multi-valued eduPersonAffiliation attribute in our LDAP directory. These values
would include (employee, faculty, staff, student ).
These eduPersonAffiliation values are defined as:
employee: identity has an active employee record in the Banner Human Resources
system
faculty: identity is an active employee that has a current faculty appointment in the Banner
Human Resources system
staff: identity is an active employee that has a current staff appointment (non-faculty) in the
Banner Human Resources system
student: identity is an active;

registered or admitted UVic graduate, or undergraduate student

registered UVic Continuing Studies student

3.2 Electronic Identity Credentials

3.2.1. Please describe, in general terms, the administrative process used to establish an

electronic identity that results in a record for that person being created in your electronic
identity database? Please identify the office(s) of record for this purpose.
Electronic identity records are created in our identity management system for people that
meet specific business criteria for UVic employees, students, and affiliates.
UVic employees are on-boarded through the hiring process managed through the UVic
Human Resources office (http://web.uvic.ca/hr/).

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UVic students are on-boarded through enrolment processes managed by the UVic Office
of the Registrar (http://registrar.uvic.ca/)
UVic Continuing Studies students enrol through an enrolment process managed by UVic
Continuing Studies ( http://www.uvcs.uvic.ca/)
3.2.2. What authentication technologies are used for your electronic identity credentials (e.g.,

Kerberos, userID/password, PKI, ...) that are relevant to Canadian Access Federation
activities? If more than one type of electronic credential is issued, how is it determined
who receives which type? If multiple credentials are linked, how is this managed (e.g.,
anyone with a Kerberos credential also can acquire a PKI token) and audited?
UVic supports a campus-wide username/password credential pair, called the UVic NetLink
ID. This credential is used for access to CAF resources.
3.2.3. If your electronic identity credentials require the use of a secret password or PIN, and

there are circumstances in which that secret would be transmitted across a network
without being protected by encryption (e.g., clear text passwords are used when
accessing campus services), please identify who in your organization can discuss with any
other Participant concerns that this might raise for them:
We do not support clear-text passwords for access to campus resources. CAF resources
will be authenticated through HTTP-secured (HTTPS) information channels.
3.2.4. If you support a single sign-on (SSO) or similar campus-wide system to allow a single

user authentication action to serve multiple applications, and you will make use of this to
authenticate people for CAF Service Providers, please describe the key security aspects
of your SSO system including whether session timeouts are enforced by the system,
whether user-initiated session termination is supported, and how use with public access
sites is protected.
We support JASIG CAS for campus SSO. CAS will support authentication for our Shibbolethbased CAF identity-provider.
The default CAS SSO timeout is 2-hours, and the user can select an 8-hour timeout. Users
may initiate an SSO sign-out by clicking the CAS SSO Sign out of UVic link.

3.2.5. Are your primary electronic identifiers for people, such as NetID,

eduPersonPrincipalName, or eduPersonTargetedID considered to be unique for all time to

the individual to whom they are assigned? If not, what is your policy for re-assignment and
what is the interval between such reuse?
UVic NetLink ID and eduPersonPrincipalName are considered to be unique for all time to
the individual assigned. eduPersonTargetedID will also be considered to be unique.

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3.3 Electronic Identity Database

3.3.1. How is information in your electronic identity database acquired and updated? Are specific

offices designated by your administration to perform this function? Are individuals allowed
to update their own information on-line?
Attributes in the identity database are updated according to administrative updates in the
systems of record for each attribute. We have designated offices that perform these
updates: Office of the Registrar, Human Resources & Benefits, Finance, Continuing
Studies.
Individuals may update some attributes via self-serve, such as their preferred email
address.
3.3.2. What information in this database is considered public information and would be provided

to any interested party?

Public information, provided to any party, includes UVic employee contact information.

3.4 Uses of Your Electronic Identity Credential System

3.4.1. Please identify typical classes of applications for which your electronic identity credentials

are used within your own organization.

Access to learning-management systems, online file-storage systems, collaboration
systems, library/research databases, web sites, email systems, computer lab workstations.

3.5 Attribute Assertions

Attributes are the information data elements in an attribute assertion you might make to
another Canadian Access Federation Participant concerning the identity of a person in
your identity management system.
3.5.1. Please describe the reliability of your identity provider attribute assertions? Highly

reliable.
3.5.2. Would you consider your attribute assertions to be reliable enough to:

a) control access to on-line information databases licensed to your organization?

Yes
b) be used to purchase goods or services for your organization?
Yes
c) enable access to personal information such as student record information?
Yes

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3.6 Privacy Policy

Canadian Access Federation Participants must respect the legal and organizational
privacy constraints on attribute information provided by other Participants and use it
only for its intended purposes.
3.6.1. What restrictions do you place on the use of attribute information that you might provide to

other Canadian Access Federation participants?

Attributes are to be used in accordance with the policy and procedures defined in the UVic
Protection of Privacy Policy, available at the link provided in section 3.6.3.
3.6.2. What policies govern the use of attribute information that you might release to other

Canadian Access Federation participants?

BC Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act (FIPPA)

UVic Information Security Policy

UVic Protection of Privacy Policy

3.6.3. Please provide your privacy policy URL.

http://www.uvic.ca/universitysecretary/assets/docs/policies/GV0235.pdf

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4. Service Provider Information

Service Providers, who receive attribute assertions from another Participant, shall respect the
other Participant's policies, rules, and standards regarding the protection and use of that data.
Such information must be used only for the purposes for which it was provided.
Service Providers are trusted to ask for only the information necessary to make an appropriate
access control decision, and to not misuse information provided to them by Identity Providers.
Service Providers must describe the basis on which access to resources is managed and their
practices with respect to attribute information they receive from other Participants.

4.1 Attributes
4.1.1. What attribute information about an individual do you require in order to manage access to

resources you make available to other Participants? Describe separately for each service
application that you offer to CAF participants.
UVic is not currently running any CAF Service Providers.
N/A
4.1.2. What use do you make of attribute information that you receive in addition to basic access

control decisions?
N/A
4.1.3. Do you use attributes to provide a persistent user experience across multiple sessions?

N/A
4.1.4. Do you aggregate session access records or record specific information accessed based

on attribute information.
N/A
4.1.5. Do you make attribute information available to other services you provide or to partner

organizations?
N/A

4.2 Technical Controls

4.2.1. What human and technical controls are in place on access to and use of attribute

information that might refer to only one specific person (i.e., personally identifiable
information)? For example, is this information encrypted for storage in your system?
N/A
4.2.2. Describe the human and technical controls that are in place on the management of super-

user and other privileged accounts that might have the authority to grant access to
personally identifiable information?
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N/A

4.2.3. If personally identifiable information is compromised, what actions do you take to notify

potentially affected individuals?

N/A

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5. Other Information
5.1 Technical Standards, Versions and Interoperability
5.1.1. Identify the SAML products you are using. If you are using the open source Internet2

Shibboleth products identify the release that you are using.

Internet2 Shibboleth Identity Provider 2.3.8
5.1.2. What operating systems are the implementations on?

RedHat Enterprise Linux

5.1.3. What versions of the SAML protocol (1.1 or 2.0) do you support in your implementations.

SAML 1.1
SAML 2.0

5.2 Other Considerations

5.2.1. Are there any other considerations or information that you wish to make known to other

Canadian Access Federation Participants with whom you might interoperate? For
example, are there concerns about the use of clear text passwords or responsibilities in
case of a security breach involving identity information you may have provided?
N/A

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