Regulated Data at UFIT Research Computing

UF Information Technology supports research and business practices that use and interact with regulated data types via several secure systems carefully designed and routinely assessed to meet regulatory requirements and classification standards.

HiPerGator

HiPerGator has been assessed by the HITRUST Alliance and certified to meet its security controls. Furthermore, the HITRUST CSF 11.3 controls have been mapped to the NIST SP 800-171r3 controls, and because of compliance with HITRUST CSF, HiPerGator has been determined to be compliant with the NIST 800-171r3 controls.

Warning

It must be emphasized that security and compliance are a shared responsibility: special steps are required by anyone working with regulated data in HiPerGator because some controls are the responsibility of the user. Groups must actively follow the policies and procedures outlined below for their work and research with regulated data to be compliant with all the controls.

More documentation will be added over time, but for now, please see the Regulated Data Procedures page for more on using HiPerGator with regulated data.

HiPerGator-RV

HiPerGator-RV is a secure computing environment where researchers and their collaborators can perform computations on and store restricted data as classified by UF. See the UF data classification guide for details.

The software middleware of the system is tiCrypt, and is developed and maintained by Tera Insights in collaboration with the University of Florida to address the needs of researchers working with restricted data, specifically projects requiring compliance with NIST 800-171 and NIST 800-53 standards. The actual work is done inside virtual machines running Windows or Linux operating systems and applications.

For more information on HiPerGator-RV, please see the HiPerGator-RV section of the site.