organisationThe group of almost 120 organisations (organizations (check out our connected IdP's) in The Netherlands who use SURFconext, consists consist of universities, university hospitals and tertiary medical teaching hospitals, universities of applied sciences, research institutions and senior secondary vocational education institutions. Together they represent a group of about 1.5 million users. These users generate almost 2 million millions of logins per month, using more than 100 and use over a thousand different cloud services. SURFconext allows users to have access to services offered by multiple Service Providers using only 1 account. Besides this, SURFconext facilitates online collaboration in the cloud, both . This can be done between users within of the same organisation organization as well as users between users from different organisationsorganizations.
For IdP's
If you connect your organisation organization to SURFconext, you will enjoy the following advantages:
- By connecting to SURFconext only once, your users will have access to all available you can easily provide users access to any of the connected services.
- You don't have to implement and maintain a custom made connection to each service or Service Provider seperatelyseparately.
- You can regulate authorisation authorization for entire groups of students and employees easily.
- The number of available services is ever growing by the day, since more and more organisations organizations choose to use SURFconext.
- You can integrate your internal authorization resources with SURFconext.SURFconext offers more flexible and cheaper licences
- Integrates perfectly with SURFsecureID for strong authentication.
- Easy integration of services thanks to open standards.
- Also available on mobile devices.
For SP's
- Connecting once to the platform makes your service available to all connected institutions (connected IdP's). Check out our list of connected institutions.
- Fast and easy access for more than 1 million usersusers of universities, hospitals and research institutions.
- Certainty about identity of users, at every authentication.
- Less user administration.
- SURF can provide you with a privacy (GDPR) friendly user identifier.
- A single point of contact with one connection.
- A long-time trusted partner of education and research institutions.
- Double security through SURFsecureID.
- Integrates perfectly with SURFsecureID for strong authentication.
- Also available on mobile devices.
- You will have tools at your disposal such as the Service Provider Dashboard to test your service on our test environment instantly.
- Verify your service using our test environment with test IdP's with fictional usersA single link provides strong authentication for all institutions. As an extra advantage, authentication tools are issued by the institutions locally.
For end users
- Simple, secure access to cloud services with the institution's account, i.e. . In other words, no need for separate user accounts with the hassle of passwords for individual services (single services
- Single sign-on: authenticate once, and as long as your session is valid (often a day), you can access other SURFconext connected services without signing in again.
- We try to minimize what data the Service Provider receives in order to protect your privacy. We can even replace identifiers with pseudonyms for extra privacy.Protection of privacy in the sense that the minimum amount of personal data is disclosed to the service provider
- It is always clear with which services the user's your data is being shared, on your SURFconext profile page.
- Access to services from the international education and research community.
- Easily prove your relation to (an) institution(s).
Why should I connect to SURFconext?
See With the above mentioned advantages . The and the fast growing number of available cloud services is growing quickly, the advantages to connect to SURFconext are obvious. Most organisations organizations consider to use these services combined with internally hosted services. Besides this, organisations organizations want to offer a secure environment where both internal and external services can be used side by side. Important elements for this are Single Sign-On, trusted identity and collaboration in groups and teams. Organisations Organizations are looking for possibilities to integrate these different kinds of applications. SURFconext offers a starting points to realise thisto do so.
Connecting to SURFconext is not that hard and easier than you might think. However, if you have any questions you can get in touch with us for answers to all of your questions about SURFconext. We prefer to be contacted by mail at support@surfconext.nl. Support by mail allows us to send and receive links, screenshots, metadata and lot's more, helping us answer to answer your questions more efficiently. If you think this doesn't work for you or you are having trouble formulating your question and prefer to talk to us directly, we will give you a call. Send us a mail with your contact information, including your phone number of course, and we will get back to you.