University Information Systems and the need for strong authentication and authorisation

Corporate academic Information Systems have faced, in the last years, a growing need for meeting high demanding standards for interoperability, transparency, open access, enhancement of learning and research IT infrastructures and applications, cross-border data exchange, etc. All these aspects of IT allow adding an unquestionable value to university information systems. They are not any more internal and isolated systems managed by a few computer experts and used by a limited number of people in the academic community, but open and accessible tools that a wide variety of users may access.