Cybera
Cybera is a not-for-profit, technical agency that is helping Alberta advance its IT frontiers.
Verify users from Cybera
Cybera is a member of Canadian Access Federation, one of the national research and education federations that share academic identity providers through eduGAIN. That means you can verify a user's affiliation with Cybera by having them sign in with their Cybera account via SAML single sign-on — no document uploads, no passwords, no identity data stored on Studid.
- Persistent identifiers
- No
- Country
- Canada
- Federation
- Canadian Access Federation
Institution details
- Organization
- Cybera
- Description
- Cybera is a not-for-profit, technical agency that is helping Alberta advance its IT frontiers.
- Country
- Canada
- SAML Entity ID
https://idp.cybera.ca/simplesaml/saml2/idp/metadata.php- Federation
- Canadian Access Federation
SAML capabilities
Capabilities are read from the institution's SAML metadata. An advertised format is what the IdP declares it supports — not a guarantee of what every login returns.
- technical
- support
Frequently asked questions
Can I verify that someone is affiliated with Cybera?
Yes. Cybera participates in Canadian Access Federation, which shares academic identity providers through eduGAIN. Users prove their affiliation by signing in with their Cybera account via SAML single sign-on — no document uploads, no passwords, no identity data stored on Studid.
Does Cybera support persistent identifiers?
No. Cybera only advertises transient (per-login) identifiers, so authIdentifier will typically be null. You can still confirm which institution the user logged in from via entityId.
Which country is Cybera in?
Cybera is located in Canada.
How do I verify students from Cybera?
Create a verification session via POST /v2/auth/verification, redirect the user to the returned link, and poll GET /v2/auth/verification/{id} after they authenticate at Cybera. The integration guide has a complete walkthrough.
Ready to verify users from Cybera?
Start the demo and authenticate with Cybera, or read the integration guide to wire it up in minutes.