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Research is more and more about collaboration, also confirmed in the Dutch NWO 2019-2022-strategy. Researchers that want to collaborate (internationally) and providers of resources who want to offer research facilities to collaborative organisations therefor face the question: how to provide secure access to resources. The SCZ project (SCZ, FIAM for collaborating researchers) tries to solve a number of issues in the field of authentication, authorization and policies. On these pages we describe what the SCZ project is about. 

A great basis for easy secure access, is using the institutional accounts most researchers have. This for instance allows easy set up, easy validation, and better control when a researcher for instance stops working for an institution.

People from around the world have been thinking about how to solve the access issues, a solution was architected, and project SCZ is building an implementation of that international effort.

We Simplified: we provide an Authentication & Authorisation Infrastructure-as-a-Service focused on the needs of researchers, research projects and providers of resources for researchers. It takes care of user management. The service name: SURF Research Access Management (SRAM). On these pages we describe what the SCZ project and the resulting SRAM-service is about. 

In the European AARC-project (Authentication and Authorisation for Research and Collaboration) the specific identity and access challenges researchers face are addressed, and they made a clear video about the problem:

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