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ACCORD
Welcome to ACCORD (Assuring Controls Compliance of Research Data), a web-based platform which allows researchers from public universities across the state of Virginia to analyze and store their sensitive data in a central location.
ACCORD is appropriate for de-identified PII, FERPA, de-identified HIPAA, business confidential, and other types of de-identified sensitive data
Thanks to funding provided by the National Science Foundation (Award #: 1919667), ACCORD is available at no cost to researchers in the state of Virginia.
Partners Listed below are our partner universities for ACCORD:
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ACCORD Security
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ACCORD is appropriate for de-identified PII, FERPA, de-identified HIPAA, business confidential, and other types of de-identified sensitive data. ACCORD cannot be used to process highly-restricted data such as CUI, FISMA, iTAR, and PCI data.
Authentication ACCORD does not have its own user identity store but instead relies upon authentication via your home institution’s single sign-on tool.
Authorization All members of a project have equal access to the data storage for that project, without sudo or root privileges.
Closed Environments ACCORD environments have no outbound connectivity to the Internet other than approved library and tool
repositories (PyPi, CPAN, CRAN, etc.
Highly Sensitive Data Storage - Ivy
Overview Residing within the High Security Zone (HSZ), the Ivy secure computing environment is designed to fit your highly sensitive research computing needs and meets HIPAA, FERPA, CUI and ITAR compliance standards. Within the HSZ, researchers can store their highly sensitive research data in High-Security Research Standard Storage.
Ivy Central Storage Ivy Central Storage (ICS) was an HSD parking zone and central storage pool with a capacity greater than 1PB. This storage space was available for researchers with highly sensitive data and could be mounted on an Ivy Virtual Machine.
As of 10/15/24, ICS will be upgraded to High-Security Research Standard Storage.
