Cybersecurity & Compliance
Protect your research. Meet sponsor requirements.
Support for DUAs, grant cybersecurity questionnaires, secure environments for regulated research, and HIPAA‑compliant environments for sensitive data, plus practical guidance to help you handle research data safely.
Protect your research and meet sponsor requirements. The Research IT team works alongside UNLV’s information security teams to deliver secure environments, support compliance for grants and dataset requests, and help you handle regulated data correctly, from proposal through close‑out.
What We Help With
Support for cybersecurity sections of DUAs and grant compliance applications, including planning for storage, access, and audit.
Provisioning of secure environments for regulated research data, restricted access, audit logging, encryption at rest and in transit.
UNLV offers HIPAA‑compliant environments to support research involving sensitive and protected data, including PHI under our Business Associate Agreements.
Help completing cybersecurity questionnaires for proposals and research dataset requests, so reviewers see a complete, accurate picture of your controls.
Research Data Security Guide Best Practices
Simple, practical guidance to help you protect research data, comply with sponsor requirements, and support research security throughout the project lifecycle. Start with the checklist, then dig into the cookbook and the guidance for your specific data type.
Researcher Checklist
Start Here
The essentials to confirm before you start working with research data, plus how to classify it and identify what applies.
Cybersecurity Cookbook
Good Habits
Access control, device security, storage & sharing, data management, compliance, and incident reporting.
Data-Type Guidance
By Data Type
Specific recommendations for HIPAA/PHI, CUI, PII, IRB, DUA, de‑identified, and public datasets.
NIH Genomic Data
NIH Policy
Controlled‑access genomic repositories and the NIST 800‑171 requirements under NOT‑OD‑24‑157.
UNLV Campus Cybersecurity
Looking for campus‑wide cybersecurity? MFA, phishing, training, device protection, and reporting for all of UNLV, maintained by the OIT Information Security team.
Explore Cybersecurity Resources
Working with PHI in Google Drive? You must notify OIT before storing PHI data. See Storage & Survey Tools for the PHI workflow and BAA details.