Send, share or transfer data

Purpose

Whether you are moving data within your team, or to colleagues externally, you want to ensure that the data cannot be read or altered along the way. Data being moved from one system to another is referred to as being “in transit” and you likely already use protocols to manage this.


Audience

faculty researchers Admin staff IT staff students


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Initial considerations

Encrypt your data and/or devices.

Digital Research Infrastructure

Use of encrypted protocols to send your data.

  • Are you already using secure methods of sending your data?

    • Commonly use protocols such as HTTPS, SFTP, FTPS, SSL, TLS, SCP, etc. provide encryption in transit. 


What can I do?

SharePoint or OneDrive

Your OneDrive account is a personal account and should not be used to share University or administrative data. SharePoint is preferred.

Sharing

Receiving

Email

Research data repositories


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Additional help

General

Contact us | Information Security (IS)

Contact us | Information Technology (IT)

Researchers

https://security.utoronto.ca/services/research-information-security-program/


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