The Turing Data Safe Haven

Many of the important questions we want to answer for society require the use of sensitive data. In order to effectively answer these questions, we need productive, secure environments to analyse that data.

We have developed:

• A proposal for how to design productive and secure research environments.

• A shared model for classifying projects into common sensitivity tiers, with a web-based tool to support this process.

• A proposed default set of technical security measures for each tier.

• A set of infrastructure-as-code tools which will allow anyone to deploy their own isolated research environment.

If this sounds interesting to you, take a look at our GitHub releases: .

Documentation structure

The documentation for this project covers several different topics. You can read them through in order or simply jump to the section that you are most interested in.

• Overview

  • If you want an overview of what the Data Safe Haven project is about.

• Design

  • If you want details about the technical design of the Data Safe Haven.

• Deployment

  • If you want to deploy your own Data Safe Haven.

• Roles

  • Information about the different user roles in the Data Safe Haven.

  • Instructions and advice for the actions of different user roles.

  • If you’re using a Data Safe Haven that someone else has deployed then start here.

Legal

The code is released under the BSD 3-Clause Licence. This documentation is released under the CC BY 4.0 Licence.

Disclaimer

Warning

The Alan Turing Institute and its group companies (“we”, “us”, the “Turing”) make no representations, warranties, or guarantees, express or implied, regarding the information contained on this site, including but not limited to information about the use or deployment of the Data Safe Haven and/or related materials. We expressly exclude any implied warranties or representations whatsoever including without limitation regarding the use of the Data Safe Haven and related materials for any particular purpose. The Data Safe Haven and related materials are provided on an ‘as is’ and ‘as available’ basis and you use them at your own cost and risk. To the fullest extent permitted by law, the Turing excludes any liability arising from your use of or inability to use this site, any of the information or materials contained on it, and/or the Data Safe Haven.

Deployments of the Data Safe Haven code and/or related materials depend on their specific implementation into different environments and we cannot account for all of these variations. Safe use of any Data Safe Haven code or materials also relies upon individuals’ and their organisations’ good and responsible data handling processes and protocols and we make no representations and give no guarantees regarding the safety, security or suitability of any instance(s) of the deployment of the Data Safe Haven. The Turing assumes no responsibility for updating any of the content on this site; however, the underlying code and related materials may change from time to time with updates and it is the user’s responsibility to keep abreast of these updates.