Overview

Everything you need to run a

Secure Data Environment

What is a TRE or SDE?

Secure and compliant by design

SeRP’s Secure Data Environments have helped shape best practice in secure data research and are recognised as leading implementations of the Five Safes Framework. Combined with ISO-certified security and robust compliance controls, SeRP enables organisations to manage sensitive data with confidence throughout its lifecycle.

Deployment options

SeRP offers custom deployment models tailored to the needs of each organisation, including on-premise, hybrid, and cloud-hosted environments. For UK-based institutions, SeRP’s dedicated data centre at Swansea University provides a secure, cost-effective, and academically governed infrastructure — ideal for research programmes requiring secure data environments without commercial cloud dependency.

Governance without compromise

SeRP Access Manager

SeRP Access Manager provides complete control over user access, project governance, and research environments. From sophisticated role-based permissions to detailed audit trails and user screening, organisations can confidently manage access to sensitive data while meeting the most demanding governance and compliance requirements.

Why Organisations Choose SeRP Access Manager

Designed for Secure Data Environments, SeRP Access Manager combines powerful governance controls with operational flexibility, enabling organisations to manage users, projects, and sensitive data access with confidence.

Researcher & TRE administrator workspace

SeRP Portal

SeRP Portal provides researchers and TRE administrators with a single place to view projects, launch secure research environments and manage governed data ingress and egress workflows.

Designed to simplify the day-to-day operation of a Secure Data Environment, the Portal streamlines researcher onboarding, TRE communications, and disclosure-controlled data exchange.

Everything researchers need in one place

Researchers can manage their entire journey through the TRE without relying on multiple systems.

Built for TRE administrators

Give administrators complete visibility and control over the research environment.

Secure Governed Data Exchange

Every request to move data into or out of the Secure Data Environment is managed through SeRP Portal and enforced by SeRP’s airlocked infrastructure. Researchers submit requests, administrators review them, and configurable approval workflows ensure data is only transferred when governance requirements have been met.

Secure research workspaces

Analysis Environment

Everything researchers need to securely analyse sensitive data in a high-performance, collaborative environment.

Whether you’re running statistical analyses, machine learning models, genomic pipelines, or large-scale imaging workflows, SeRP provides secure virtual research workspaces equipped with the tools and computing power your project demands.

Built for modern research

Research software ready to use

Researchers can begin work immediately with a comprehensive suite of analytical software pre-installed.

 

Need something different?

Additional software can be installed to meet project-specific requirements.

analysis software
High performance computing

Scale to the largest research challenges

For projects that demand significant computational power, SeRP provides access to a High Performance Computing (HPC) cluster.

  • 3,500 CPU cores
  • 30 compute nodes
  • 15 TB RAM
  • GPU-enabled computing

Designed Around Your Research

From small collaborative studies to national-scale research programmes, SeRP enables organisations to tailor computing resources to each project’s requirements while maintaining the security and governance of a Secure Data Environment.

Need specialist computing resources?

We’ll help you design an analysis environment that meets your research and computational requirements.

Multimodal data

Built for structured, unstructured, and multimodal research data

Whether your research involves structured clinical records, genomic sequences, medical imaging, free text, or multimodal datasets, SeRP provides the secure infrastructure and processing pipelines needed to ingest, standardise, analyse, and govern your data.

Supported data types

Clinical data – Electronic Health Records (EHR) – Administrative data – Registry data – Cohort data – Genomics and multi-omics – Medical imaging (MRI, CT, PET, DICOM) – Digital pathology – Laboratory data – Survey and questionnaire data – Wearable and sensor data – Documents and PDFs – Clinical notes – Free text and handwritten notes – Linked datasets

Purpose-built for complex research data

And much more, including structured clinical data, administrative records, documents, databases, and multimodal research datasets.

Supported data sources & storage

Relational databases – Object storage – File systems – Data lakes – Cloud storage – APIs – Research repositories – Secure file transfer (SFTP) – XNAT (for imaging)

No matter what data you work with, SeRP provides the infrastructure to securely transform it into research-ready information.