News
22/09/23 – Multi-Factor Authentication (“MFA”) is when you identify online using more than one “credential” at the same time – e.g. password combined with a telephone app. And many of WAYF's user organisations support their users' being able to...
08/08/23 – JobTeaser is an online career platform, where students can find information about companies as well as internships and job ads – and is...
21/06/23 – Today, Iceland's university for agriculture, fishery, and equine studies, Hólar, has joined WAYF as a user organisation. And so, staff and...
03/05/23 – DeiC and WAYF on April 19-20 hosted a workshop in Copenhagen on using federated web logins for SSH-based access. Research institutions and collaborations typically have rather well-developed user managements for their web-based systems, and much is to be gained if this can be...
28/03/23 – Today it is 15 years since WAYF was launched as a production system. We celebrate it quietly at our Lyngby office, very busy this week rolling out the new governmental citizen's ID, ‘NemLog-in’,...
09/03/23 – In the afternoon and evening of March 8, this website was unavailable, due to a power outage at the Technical University of Denmark (‘DTU’). And only on March 9, close to noon, was our ability to edit the website restored. We regret the inconvenience.
The WAYF service itself,...
20/01/23 – Since WAYF started out, SAML has been the only technical protocol supported for transferring logins from user organisations to services in the federation. But now we’ve...
18/11/22 – Today, Iceland University of the Arts (‘LHI’) has joined WAYF as a user organisation. And so, staff and students here now have the ability...
15/11/22 – The Royal Danish Academy of Music (‘DKDM’) today was admitted to WAYF as a user organisation. Consequently, students and staff here now have the ability to identify as DKDM users vis-à-...
08/11/22 – Back in November of 2022, WAYF was approved by Denmark's Agency for Digital Government as a ‘broker’ of the identity assurance level ‘Substantial’ as defined in the Danish National Standard for Identity...