Data security
Managing research data requires specific measures to ensure data security and integrity. This is necessary to protect your data from unauthorized access, changes, or loss, but also to protect the privacy of your research participants.
Information security
All information with regard to IT security at Ghent University can be found on the Information security page.
Highlights:
- To work securely with IT at Ghent University, follow these best practices.
- How to encrypt data
- How to safely store and back up data
- How to safely transfer files
Confidential data
In some specific cases, research data can be considered confidential. To find out if you are working with confidential data, read the following guidelines.
Highlights:
- Sharing of confidential research data needs restrictions.
- What is anonymization and what is pseudonymization? Find out in this re(Search)tip.
- How to encrypt data
Privacy and research
Since May 2018, the new European privacy legislation (General Data Protection Regulation) has been in force.
For more information about what this means for you as a researcher, see Privacy and research.
Highlights:
- Are you working with personal data?
- If the answer to previous question is yes, do not forget to register your data processing activities.