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Quick Start

We've gathered information about SIF UI in a few short intro guides and a more thorough user guide.

We strongly recommend reading and following at least the two intro guides if you want to use SIF UI.
For any legal questions or permits please contact your Faculty Secretariat.

Getting started

New to SIF? Get started with your account.

Project Intro

About creating, sharing and accessing projects

User Guide

Read on in the user guide for full SIF documentation.

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

There's no space quota as such on the SIF storage. Anything within a few terabytes should be fine. We suggest that you just have a word with us if you want to store more than that.

If you want to store non-sensitive data sets - especially big ones - we recommend instead doing so on ERDA.

All user data on SIF is automatically replicated over multiple disks with RAID technology. We additionally run automatic nightly backup of all SIF system and user data to a remote location.

SIF relies on the same mature open source software stack used in ERDA, but with a number of additional security enhancements and with all potentially less secure features disabled. E.g. it does not come with direct data export and share links to reduce the risk of data leaks and avoid anonymous access of any kind. SIF enforces mandatory 2-factor authentication for all access using the TOTP industry standard for one-time passwords generated on your smart phone or tablet. In effect this makes it a lot harder to obtain unauthorized access even for an attacker who should somehow get hold of your password. Data on SIF can generally only be accessed through security-hardened protocols and user data is only ever stored to disk in encrypted form. That is, all data access and storage rely on strong encryption standards. Additionally SIF strictly separates data on a per-project basis to help users avoid leaking sensitive data by mistake.

User data is only ever stored on UCPH premises, more precisely in the HPC Center server rooms with physical access control. Management-wise SIF also comes with even tighter regulation, where only a select few administrators can obtain access to decrypted user data, and always only after explicit permission from a superior.

For upload of an entire folder structure, you can use the efficient file/folder handling described in the Efficient Data Access sections of the user guide. That makes SIF appear like a network drive, so that you can use your local file manager to copy entire folders to SIF.

Currently SIF web access is limited to only upload/download of individual files. We may decide to add pack/unpack support later, like it is the case on ERDA.

SIF prevents certain characters like "< > { | } * ? [ ]" in file names. You may already have run into similar limitations when naming files on your own PC or devices. In order to provide a secure and consistent experience across different platforms, web and advanced interfaces SIF prohibits those and some more that are known to cause problems. Either because they are so-called control characters with a special potentially dangerous meaning on the storage systems or because they are known to interfere with the web interfacing and presentation. We are continuously evaluating the need for allowing more exotic characters but always with focus on not breaking existing interfaces and backends. Feel free to contact us about the possibility of allowing any additional characters that you may miss.

For security reasons we generally avoid storing passwords in our systems and only save a one-way derived hash value. Therefore we cannot recover passwords, but we do allow you to change it.

If you are an employee or student at KU/UCPH you typically log in to SIF web through the UCPH OpenID authentication service. It is linked to the central UCPH user database and therefore employs your usual UCPH credentials from e.g. KU Mail and KU Net (usernames are on the form abc123). If you forgot your KU/UCPH password or e.g. it expired you need to go through UCPH password change procedures or get in touch with UCPH IT Support.

If you are an external user on SIF you can always use the External user sign up button again to renew access and/or change your main SIF password. Just fill the sign up form as usual including your particular ID fields, the mandatory name and email of your UCPH contact and a note that you want to change password in the Comment field.

The other SIF services like SFTP and WebDAVS rely on local login credentials and you can change them yourself on your SIF Setup page.

We provide external user access with non-UCPH credentials, but for legal reasons this access requires explicit prior acceptance from the relevant faculty legal unit and such external users can only be invited to join existing SIF projects owned by a UCPH employee. Please contact us at the support email below or get in touch with the relevant Faculty Secretariat for further details.

Further Support

SIF User Guide
Questions about SIF?
Please contact us at support@sif.erda.dk

About SIF

SIF or Sensitive Information Facility at University of Copenhagen (KU/UCPH) is meant for storing and sharing sensitive data. In particular personal data requiring special care under the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). The intended audience is employees, their collaboration partners and students. SIF delivers secure centralized storage space for various projects involving sensitive data and integrates safe sharing with other internal or external project participants as well as network drive use from anywhere.

SIF is delivered by SCIENCE HPC Center and is formally for the faculty of Science, but we do allow exceptions. A roll-out to all of UCPH is underway to support the general UCPH Data Management Guidelines.

General Research Data

For non-sensitive research data we recommend instead using the sister facility ERDA, which provides more flexibility and features.

Status and News

You can always refer to our separate status and news overview for a.o. the latest SIF system status as well as information about new or changed features.

Terms of Use

SIF comes with some restrictions but they should be in line with basic common sense - considering the sensitive nature of the stored data.

Specifically users of SIF should beware of the following:

When you create a new project for storing personal data or similar the Faculty Secretariat is automatically notified
Any login attempt is logged
Any access to data is logged along with your ID, time of day and other relevant information
Any access pattern that is considered "suspicious" might result in a suspension of your account

You are not under any circumstances allowed to share your account with anybody else. If other persons need access to your data they must have and use their own account to do so.

Examples of suspicious behavior may include:

Attempts to login from different internet addresses within a short time frame
Structured download of data
Attempts to circumvent security controls or access data to which you have no privilege

Please note that these rules are in place to protect you as a researcher and University of Copenhagen in general. We try hard to make the system as easy to use as possible, while always ensuring the required high level of security.

For the complete details please refer to the official terms of use always available from here, in addition to our site privacy and cookie policies linked at the bottom.

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