A certified, secure gateway for research with sensitive data
The Secure Research Services (SRS) provides ³Ô¹ÏºÚÁÏ researchers and their collaborators with a trusted, compliant environment to store and analyse sensitive research data – so you can focus on your research, not security overheads.
What is Secure Research Services?
The Secure Research Services (SRS) is provided by Research Computing Service (RCS), part of ICT at ³Ô¹ÏºÚÁÏ. It is an initiative to provide a unified, secure, and scalable framework for projects working with sensitive or restricted data.
SRS is designed to help researchers meet legal, regulatory, and data-provider security requirements, with straightforward onboarding and integrated technical and user support.
The service operates under a defined security control framework and is subject to regular audits.
SRS currently offers the BDAU Secure Environment, a platform for hosting and analysing pseudonymised sensitive data.
Projects using fully anonymised or publicly available data will not require access to SRS. In these cases, alternative RCS services – such as High Performance Computing (HPC) or the Research Data Facility (RDF) Active – may be more appropriate.
In the future, SRS will evaluate additional secure platforms to support identifiable data and secure HPC. To assist with this, there is a RCS-Technical Advisory Group (TAG) for Secure Environments, if you are interested in being part of this, please contact rcs-comms-team@imperial.ac.uk.