Published in the Research School of Physics Event Horizon
Vol43 Issue47 11–15 December 2017

The ANU Identity and Access Management (IdAM) system has a significant upgrade scheduled to occur during the 2017 shutdown, from 22 December 2017 to 1 January 2018. While the University's existing solution has served it well, the associated issues are compromising security and access governance relating to identity, administration and password management.
 
Please be aware of the following:
1.        During migration, all ANU account holders will be unable to reset or change passwords. However, students and staff will still be able to access all University systems and applications with their current username/password.
2.        Post migration, the ‘firstname.lastname' email aliases held by undergraduate students and alumni will be discontinued (this will not affect HDR students). The practical effect of this is that undergraduate students and alumni will only receive emails sent to their authorised ‘u1234567@anu.ed.au’ email address, in line with ANU guidelines. Alumni will be able to request named accounts which will follow the format ‘firstname.lastname@alumni.anu.edu.au’ on an as needed basis.
3.        The introduction of expiring passwords for all user and functional accounts. The change will result in a 365-day password expiry policy.  Note that the 365-day password expiry commences during this upgrade, so the first forced password resets are not expected to occur until late next year.
See here for further details.