Other methods

Physically bring in a disk

Alternatively, you provide your data on a physical disk/USB stick.

• Please encrypt your data before putting it onto the storage device.

• Deliver/courier the device to the hosting institution.

• Send the Trusted Research Environments Service Area (TRESA) a secure email with the encryption key.

Caution

Please ensure that you use a modern encryption algorithm and a strong key to secure your data.

Download via a secure computer

Using a secure out-of-band communication method (such as a secure email or messaging service), the data provider sends the Trusted Research Environments Service Area (TRESA) a URL where the data can be downloaded. This is a URL which is incompatible with AzCopy for some reason. In this case, the Trusted Research Environments Service Area (TRESA) will download the data to a secure local computer and reupload it to the storage account.

• such machines are freshly imaged before each transfer

• they use the standard Turing build process with Sophos anti-virus, Qualys vulnerability management and BitLocker full disk encryption

• the machines are securely wiped using standard tools such as Dell Data Wipe or Intune Data Wipe.