This page details different types of research data environments available to those at the College. Use the tabs below to get general details on each data environment and then view the PDF for more information on each enclave.
Summary of Key Research Data Environments
Secure Enclaves
Secure Enclaves
An environment for groups dealing with identifiable and de-identified sensitive data. It is designed to give stakeholders assurance that groups meet the Information Governance requirements that they are subject to (e.g. GDPR).
Owned by: Faculty of Medicine
Hosted location: On-premise (ICT Data Centre)
Key contact: secure-enclaves@imperial.ac.uk
Facilities offered:
- Each group is given a secured area of the College network (an enclave) that is isolated from all other areas of the network (including other groups in the environment).
- Access to servers is through a controlled and audited management service.
- Users, workstations and servers are subject to a common Information Governance Policy.
- Enclaves can contain servers running Linux or Windows operating systems. Servers may be physical, virtual or cloud servers, providing they meet the IG policy requirements.
- BitLocker 256 encryption is used for data at rest on the server disks. Symantec desktop encryption is also used when sending data over the network.
- The ICT backup service is used for all data stored by research groups.
View the Secure Enclaves Sharepoint site for further information. You will need to be logged into your College account to access this.
BDAU SE
Data Science Institute (DSI)
ICT Research Computing Services