Delivering a secure, trusted and scalable infrastructure environment for data governance, control and management of sensitive data for remote analysis for the Australian landscape.
Mathew Ishac1, Stephen Bird2 1Monash University, Melbourne, VIC, Australia2Queensland Cyber Infrastructure Foundation (QCIF), St Lucia, QLD, Australia
Abstract
The Australian Research Data Commons (ARDC) Secure eResearch Platform project is a national collaboration to deliver a secure, trusted and scalable environment for data governance, control and management services for data custodians and secure remote data analysis environments for research users.
Such an environment is needed to overcome significant barriers to making sensitive data Findable, Accessible, Interoperable and Reusable, providing assurances to other data custodians regarding confidential and secure data handling, and ensuring researchers comply with ethical and regulatory requirements.
There are a range of criteria that infrastructure service providers need to meet to successfully deliver research services suitable for handling and analysing sensitive data. These criteria encompass a broad spectrum, and include aspects such as governance, personnel, standards, security, certification, ethics, trust, authentication, authorisation, and technology.
It is believed that better outcomes can be achieved by collaborating and sharing knowledge and experiences between participating research infrastructure service providers, rather than by developing systems in isolation.
The Research Infrastructure Community of Practice (CoP) has brought together research infrastructure providers who are delivering, or intend to deliver services for sensitive data and its analysis.
Through this project, the CoP has created a minimum set of characteristics required and a repository of shared learning and best practice guidelines, empowering research infrastructure teams to deploy, operate, and support platforms for secure sharing and analysis of sensitive data. This facilitates knowledge sharing that helps the community to deliver these solutions.
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