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Safe Settings
The UK Data Archive provides the Secure Lab, which is a secure facility for providing access to confidential/sensitive data. We use Citrix secure remote access technology, frequently used by the banking and military sector and renowned for its robustness. In addition, the UK Data Archive is accredited for the ISO 27001 Information Security standard. an Information Security Management System, creating a culture of information security, continuous improvement, and vigilance israel rcs data among our staff, who apply best-practice standards for handling confidential data. In addition, we annually hire ‘ethical hackers’ to undertake penetration tests of our secure servers. The results of these tests, and the outcomes of our 6-monthly ISO surveillance audits, are made available to the dozen or so Government Departments and other agencies that regularly supply us with confidential data, to make available to researchers.
Safe Outputs
Only statistical outputs (results) which have been screened by staff to ensure they cannot be used to identify the data subjects, can be released to the researcher. These typically include ‘descriptive statistics’ that have been sufficiently aggregated such that identification is near enough impossible, and modelled output (regression coefficients etc.) which are inherently non-confidential.
The UK Data Archive provides the Secure Lab, which is a secure facility for providing access to confidential/sensitive data. We use Citrix secure remote access technology, frequently used by the banking and military sector and renowned for its robustness. In addition, the UK Data Archive is accredited for the ISO 27001 Information Security standard. an Information Security Management System, creating a culture of information security, continuous improvement, and vigilance israel rcs data among our staff, who apply best-practice standards for handling confidential data. In addition, we annually hire ‘ethical hackers’ to undertake penetration tests of our secure servers. The results of these tests, and the outcomes of our 6-monthly ISO surveillance audits, are made available to the dozen or so Government Departments and other agencies that regularly supply us with confidential data, to make available to researchers.
Safe Outputs
Only statistical outputs (results) which have been screened by staff to ensure they cannot be used to identify the data subjects, can be released to the researcher. These typically include ‘descriptive statistics’ that have been sufficiently aggregated such that identification is near enough impossible, and modelled output (regression coefficients etc.) which are inherently non-confidential.