University of Florida

The University of Florida uses Cirrus Proxy as a single authentication layer for Modern Campus Destiny One, serving both institutional users with GatorLink credentials and external learners using Google, Microsoft, LinkedIn, or a UF-branded email and password. Over a 12-month period UF processed 478,000 proxy authentications and generated fewer than 10 user support tickets.

The University of Florida has been a Cirrus Identity customer since 2018, originally using Cirrus Proxy and Gateway to support personal account access for a custom professional development application. When UF expanded to Modern Campus Destiny One in 2021, they hit a constraint that many institutions encounter when adopting continuing education platforms: Destiny One integrates with one identity provider.

That single-IdP limitation meant UF needed one authentication layer that could serve their full population. Enrolled students and faculty with GatorLink accounts, alongside external learners using personal Google, Microsoft, or LinkedIn credentials. The solution also needed account linking to maintain persistent identifiers for users whose access might span multiple sessions, systems, or years.

Without a managed proxy, UF would have had to either restrict Destiny One access to institutional users only (cutting off external learners) or stand up a custom identity layer to handle the credential variety (an operational burden no IT team wants to carry).

Cirrus Proxy became the single authentication source that Destiny One required. From the application's perspective, there is one IdP. From the user's perspective, they see a clear discovery screen: GatorLink for those who have it, and social sign-in options for those who don't.

Behind that screen, Cirrus Managed Identity holds a persistent identity record for each external user. A stable UFID is allocated when the user is determined to be unique and linked to the UF Identity Registry. When an external learner signs in with Google one semester and Microsoft the next, they're recognized as the same person. Their record persists. The application receives consistent attributes.

After approximately two years of operation, UF added Cirrus OrgBrandedID as a third sign-in option: a UF-branded email-and-password credential for users who can't or prefer not to use social sign-in. UF was able to add this option without Cirrus customer support involvement. The configuration was managed directly in the Cirrus console.

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