Starting from the End: What to do when Restricted Data is released

Marta Teperek; Rhys Morgan; Michelle Ellefson; Danny Kingsley

doi:10.5334/dsj-2017-010

Starting from the End: What to do when Restricted Data is released

Data Science Journal

Volume 16 (2017): Issue 0

By: Marta Teperek , Rhys Morgan, Michelle Ellefson and Danny Kingsley

Open Access

|Mar 2017

Abstract

Repository managers can never be one hundred percent sure of the security of hosted research data. Even assuming that human errors and technical faults will never happen, repositories can be subject to hacking attacks. Therefore, repositories accepting personal/sensitive data (or other forms of restricted data) should have workflows in place with defined procedures to be followed should things go wrong and restricted data is inappropriately released. In this paper we will report on our considerations and procedures when restricted data from our institution was inappropriately released.

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Articles in this issue

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5334/dsj-2017-010 | Journal eISSN: 1683-1470

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Language: English

Page range: 10 - 10

Submitted on: Oct 28, 2016

Accepted on: Mar 9, 2017

Published on: Mar 23, 2017

Published by: Ubiquity Press

In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services

Publication frequency: 1 issue per year

Keywords:

restricted data,

data release,

data security,

personal/sensitive data,

repository security,

data anonymisation

© 2017 Marta Teperek, Rhys Morgan, Michelle Ellefson, Danny Kingsley, published by Ubiquity Press
This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Volume 16 (2017): Issue 0