{"id":26138,"date":"2022-09-28T09:05:00","date_gmt":"2022-09-28T13:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/?p=26138&preview=true&preview_id=26138"},"modified":"2024-07-08T06:04:21","modified_gmt":"2024-07-08T10:04:21","slug":"units-to-plan-to-discontinue-cosign-use-by-june-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/2022\/09\/28\/units-to-plan-to-discontinue-cosign-use-by-june-2023\/","title":{"rendered":"Units: plan to discontinue Cosign use by June 2023"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Information and Technology Services along with many units are working to discontinue use and retire the two-decade old Cosign Authentication service. As part of the U-M Annual Internal Control Certification<\/a> process for this fiscal year, units are required to attest to discontinuing or planning to discontinue use of Cosign in unit-owned applications by June 2023.

Learn more about the Cosign retirement effort.<\/a>

Cosign has been the secure, single sign-on, web authentication system in thousands of university applications and websites over the years. Proudly designed at U-M, the open source software was once widely used across higher education around the world. Now only a handful of universities still use Cosign, and the open source community that once maintained it has dwindled. It is not a suitable option for modern, cloud-based technologies.

Ready-to-use resources & support labs<\/strong>
In many situations, website and application owners may choose to remove authentication altogether or replace Cosign with Shibboleth. Shibboleth is a more modern, flexible, and supportable alternative. To assist with the transition, ITS has created a resource kit that contains sample codes, drop-in support lab schedule, and more. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Upcoming drop-in support labs:<\/p>\n\n\n\n