SURFconext, provided by SURF, is a federated identity management service for secondary vocational-, higher education and research in the Netherlands. With SURFconext, users can authenticate at services using their institutional account.
Advantages of SURFconext for service providers
- Connecting once makes your service available to all connected institutions.
- Fast and easy access for more than 1 million users.
- Certainty about identity of users.
- Less user administration.
- A single point of contact with one connection.
- A long-time trusted partner of education and research institutions.
- Connecting is easy.
- Double security through SURFsecureID.
- A single link provides strong authentication for all institutions. As an extra advantage, authentication tools are issued by the institutions locally.
- You will have tools at your disposal such as the Service Provider Dashboard to test your service on our test environment instantly with test IdP's with fictional users.
SURFconext also facilitates the exchange of group information. Pre-defined groups like student teams working on a specific course or ad-hoc collaborations can be defined in SURFconext Invite (in Dutch). Services can use these to facilitate collaboration for groups.
Connecting to SURFconext as a service provider is free of charge.
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Do you have any questions, have a look at our frequently asked questions or send us an email at support@surfconext.nl.
More details
Connecting to SURFconext is not complicated but you do need to prepare yourself. We have all the necessary information at your disposal in the links below.