IN PROGRESS Next Generation AAF Project Funded by the Department of Education and Training, this project created the next generation Australian Access Federation (AAF) infrastructure and products. The project delivered three activities throughout 2016: Activity 1: Alignment with policies against the Australian Signals Directorate Information Security Manual ■ ■ Migration of AAF’s infrastructure to an Australian Signals Directorate certified hosting provider, Amazon Web Services ■ ■ A gap analysis of AAF’s processes against the Australian Information Security Manual ■ ■ The refinement of policies and procedures including: ■ ■ Information Security Policy ■ ■ System availability targets ■ ■ Business Continuity Plan ■ ■ Disaster Recovery Plan. Activity 2: Next Generation software extensions ■ ■ The delivery of a new Discovery Service that has laid the technical foundations for AAF to join eduGAIN as well as a revised user interface that offers better support for mobile devices ■ ■ A next generation reporting tool ■ ■ A pilot project with Intersect Australia Limited to look at non-web technologies. Activity 3: AAF Software as a Service (SaaS) hosted Identity Provider (IdP) solution. ■ ■ Enable subscribers to connect to the federation without the investment in infrastructure and skills currently required. The project commenced in July 2015 and is scheduled for completion in January 2017. ALIGNMENT OF POLICIES INFORMATION SECURITY POLICY REVISED DISASTER RECOVERY PLAN BUSINESS CONTINUITY PLAN NEW SOFTWARE EXTENSIONS DISCOVERY SERVICE REPORTING TOOL SAAS HOSTED IDP EASIER TO JOIN THE AAF NO ADDITIONAL INFRASTRUCTURE REQUIRED SIMPLIFIES SKILLS & RESOURCE REQUIREMENTS FAST SET UP TIME NEXT GEN AAF 14