Foundation
Data Landing Zone (DLZ)
version: 2022-06-09 update: 2024-04-04 Introduction The Data Landing Zone (DLZ) API is a public API that allows to safely push data to specific myDRE Workspace. Data transfer authentication and authorisation is managed by two API keys: Subscription ...
FAIR and myDRE
Introduction In 2016, the ‘FAIR Guiding Principles for scientific data management and stewardship’ were published in Scientific Data. The authors intended to provide guidelines to improve the Findability, Accessibility, Interoperability, and Reuse of ...
myDRE & Firewalls
Introduction For domain and URL-whitelisting a Firewall is required. anDREa can provide the following options Using your own organization's firewall with Bastion Architecture (preferred) Using your own organization's firewall Deploying an Azure ...
myDRE as a SaaS
Introduction myDRE is a product developed and maintained by anDREa BV that allows a Service Provider to offer services to Tenants. Each Tenant is able to self-service create Workspaces for storing and processing data. The Service Provider operates ...
Bastion Architecture
Introduction Azure Bastion is a service that allows you to connect to a virtual machine using your browser. Bastion provides secure RDP and SSH connectivity to all of the virtual machines in your workspace without exposing RDP or SSH ports to the ...
Bastion and Auto Scaling
Introduction myDRE provides to option to access VMs via Azure Bastion with around 30-50 users per Bastion VM. If the number of users warrant it, Bastion can be rescaled manually. Why does support need to manually scale? The number of Azure Bastion ...
myDRE Highlevel Architecture
Introduction This article describes the myDRE High-level Architecture. Note: Development, Acceptance, and Production are separated environments. Description Compute Infrastructure. myDRE.org Portal serves as the frontend for the solution offering ...
Who/what is License Administrator / licenseadmin@mydre.org?
From time to time it is important that the VMs are started to fetch and install updates, or add functionality provided by anDREa. The anDREa development team uses an account called License Administrator (with username licenseadmin@mydre.org – this is ...
Multi-Region Implementation
Introduction As an organization you might want to store and process data in a region other than the current default West Europe. This might be needed because regulation and collaboration requirements. Or that certain services you need can only run in ...
Does anDREa have access to the data in a Workspace?
Created: 2021-10-24 Last update: 2023-01-23 myDRE is designed and regularly evaluated on the objective that and only that authorized people and services can have access to the data in a Workspace. "that and only that" implies that both authorized ...
Offboarding and Exit Strategy
Offboarding, Exit Strategy, and related questions concern handing over the control of the data to the Tenant. By design, all data of a Tenant will be processed and stored in a Workspace within one or more Azure subscriptions of the Tenant. myDRE ...
Foundation for Audit Recording
Introduction Providing demonstrable evidence is an important for an organization and its employees. This is required for instance for GDPR compliance and ISO 27001 certification. A key challenge is what needs to be recorded. While there are pointers ...
myDRE - pencilling out the Shared Tenant
First version: 2021-05-27 Last updated: 2021-05-27 Introduction The following short videos give a quick mental picture of myDRE as a Shared Tenant. The view point taken is that how the enrolment takes place; the technical process on how to make myDRE ...
myDRE and IAM
Current implementation Every user will get their own @mydre.org username. Security - every user is subject to the same policies No guest-accounts Minimally every 24h Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) is required Trusted devices cannot be created ...
Security Manifesto
First version: 2021-04-15 Last updated: 2024-01-24 Last change: Replacing 'Azure DRE' with 'myDRE' ; replaced 'Owner' with 'Accountable or Privileged Member' Introduction anDREa is committed to protecting the security of its business information in ...
Popular Articles
Activating your new @mydre.org account
Before you can access your DRE workspace(s) at mydre.org, you need to activate your @mydre.org account. Below, we explain the steps in this activation process, along with screenshots for illustration. Prerequisite: your new @mydre.org username, along ...
R and RStudio using External Access rules
This method of downloading R packages is outdated! This article will not be updated any longer. IP addresses are often subject to change. Therefore, the domain allowlisting feature has been introduced and it is self-service for Accountable and ...
Atlas.ti
Older versions of Atlas.ti will show the option to validate your license offline. Unfortunately, this procedure no longer works. You can still use Atlas.ti by allowlisting the domain atlasti.com, as explained under Step 2 in Validating your Atlas.ti ...
Python, Anaconda and JupyterLab
With domain allowlisting now being a self-service feature, this is the preferred option. For proxy settings in Anaconda in combination with domain allowlisting, please follow this article: ...
Proxy configurations Anaconda
First version: 2022-10-31 Latest version: 2023-11-16 Last change(s): Clarification in the introduction; clarifying instructions; added screenshots. This is a community effort. The article was created by the anDREa Support Team in their spare time. If ...