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title: "Is Northwestern Information Technology Shibboleth (Authentication and Authorization Services) down? Northwestern Information Technology Shibboleth (Authentication and Authorization Services) status"
url: "https://www.openstatus.dev/status/northwestern/shibboleth-authentication-and-authorization-services"
description: "Live Northwestern Information Technology Shibboleth (Authentication and Authorization Services) status, uptime over the last 45 days and recent incidents, tracked by openstatus."
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# Is Northwestern Information Technology Shibboleth (Authentication and Authorization Services) down?

**Answer:** No, Northwestern Information Technology Shibboleth (Authentication and Authorization Services) is not down. All Northwestern Information Technology Shibboleth (Authentication and Authorization Services) systems are operational.

- Status: operational
- Checked: 2026-11-07T06:30:02Z
- User reports in the last 15 minutes: 0
- Part of: [Northwestern Information Technology](/status/northwestern.md) / Identity and Access Management
- Official status page: https://northwesternuniversity.statuspage.io
- About: Shibboleth is the only authentication method Northwestern Information Technology (IT) officially supports for NetID-based authentication to applications/web sites hosted outside of the University. External partners must join the InCommon federation in addition to implementing the Shibboleth Service Provider (SP) software. Vendors/partners may also choose to implement a compatible commercial package that supports SAML-based federation

## Last 45 days

2 of 2 tracked days without issues.

## Incidents affecting Shibboleth (Authentication and Authorization Services)

No recent incidents.

## Links

- HTML page: /status/northwestern/shibboleth-authentication-and-authorization-services
- Service: /status/northwestern.md