SANE - Secure ANalysis Environment

Privacy, copyright and competition considerations stand in the way of sharing sensitive data for scientific purposes. We propose the Secure Analysis Environment (SANE): a virtual container in which the researcher analyses sensitive data, but the data provider retains full control. It is an off-the-shelve, data holder-agnostic Trusted Research Environment (TRE).

In SANE, scientists can conduct research according to the principles of Five Safes with data that was previously hardly available. SANE exists in 2 variants:

• Tinker SANE: the researcher can see, manipulate and play with the data.
• Blind SANE: the researcher submits an algorithm without seeing the data. The data provider approves the algorithm and the output.

SANE is a collaboration between ODISSEI, CLARIAH (KB & NISV) and SURF.