Access the Secure Research Environment (SRE)
Before you can use the UMB's Secure Research Environment, the SRE support team will work with you to understand your research needs, confirm project requirements, and establish secure access for your team. Follow the steps below to begin.
Access process at a glance:
1. Request a consultation
2. Plan your SRE project
3. Confirm access requirements
4. Sign in after access is approved
Step 1: Request an SRE consultation
Email sre-support@umaryland.edu to request an initial consultation. During the consultation, the SRE support team will review your project needs, discuss secure access, and help your team prepare to use the environment successfully.
Step 2: Plan your SRE project
During the consultation, the SRE support team will work with you to:
- Determine whether SRE Standard or Custom Compute best fits your project.
- Define business processes and project folder requirements.
- Discuss the expected project timeline.
- Identify the project’s key contacts, including the data steward and primary point of contact.
Step 3: Confirm access requirements
The information needed to approve access depends on whether your project has an IRB protocol.
Projects with an IRB protocol: Provide the IRB documentation and/or IRB protocol number requested by the SRE support team. This information will be used to verify who is authorized to access the project data in the SRE. Changes to an IRB protocol do not automatically update SRE project-folder access. Contact sre-support@umaryland.edu when a team member needs to be added or removed so the appropriate access update can be completed.
Projects without an IRB protocol: If the project does not have an IRB protocol, access to project data requires approval from the project owner and/or the designated data steward.
Step 4: Prepare UMB and non-UMB users
All approved members of a research project may use the SRE, including collaborators who are not UMB employees or students. Every SRE user must have an active UMID.
Non-UMB collaborators typically need a sponsored affiliate account through the UMB Community System before SRE access can be established. Build time for affiliate-account sponsorship into the project timeline.
Sign in to the SRE
After the SRE support team confirms that your access is ready, choose one of the sign-in methods below.
