SD Services for Research - Services for Research
SD Services for Research
Our SD (Sensitive Data) services for research are designed to support secure sensitive data management through web-user interfaces accessible from the user's own computer. SD services are comprised of five components that together help you manage sensitive data during all the phases of your research.
You can store and share encrypted sensitive data with SD Connect and create a private workspace to compute sensitive data with SD Desktop. At the end of your research, you can publish sensitive data under controlled access with SD Submit (pilot phase) or Federated EGA (for biomedical data) and enable its reuse with SD Apply (pilot phase).
SD services support national requirements for sensitive data and comply with General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). Services define the data processor (CSC) and data controller responsibilities. You manage the access to your data during all the phases of research. These services are suitable for primary use of research data. Moreover, SD Desktop is a certified computing environment for secondary use of health and social data according to Finnish regulations (specifically, Findata regulations and the Act on Secondary Use of Social and Health Data). A restricted version of SD Desktop is provided for secondary use, subject to specific limitations compared to the standard SD Desktop.
In the following pages, you can find a general overview of the SD services and their future developments.
Introduction to SD services for research (Finnish version)
Who can use SD services
SD services are suitable for managing sensitive data from any research field and for diverse purposes. The services are available to researchers and students affiliated with Finnish academic organizations, research institutes, and their international collaborators. Using CSC services requires you to register a CSC account.