How to get access to SD Desktop with a Findata permit
Use case
You need to access SD Desktop. You have a permit from Findata.
Solution
- Create a CSC account
- Create new CSC project
- Fill GDPR document
- Contact CSC service desk
- CSC adds members to your project, please wait
- CSC activates SD Desktop for your project, please wait
- Accept SD Desktop terms of use
- Activate MFA
- CSC project is ready
1. Create a CSC account
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- Go to MyCSC portal
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Log in with Haka. Select your home organization and log in to their identity service. How to get an account without Haka.
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Fill in your information on the Sign up page.
- Set your password using 12 characters or more, containing both upper and lowercase letters and at least one number. No special characters are allowed.
- You will receive your CSC user account confirmation via email.
2. Create new CSC project
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- Go to ”Projects” page (left side menu or a hamburger menu at the top right corner).
- On the top of the page choose ”New project”.
- Fill in the project name and project description. You can edit these later if needed.
- Choose the Project category to be “Findata”.
- Fill all required fields. Read and accept the terms of use.
- Click “Create a project”.
3. Fill GDPR document
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- Since your project handles personal data, you need to fill the GDPR document i.e. Description of processing activity -form.
- The document appears when you create a new project. You can edit this document later.
- Your home organization is the data controller. Read more about the roles and GDPR.
4. Contact CSC service desk
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- Send email to sensitivedata-support@csc.fi, subject: Sensitive Data, Secondary use.
- Write your project number to the email (e.g. project_1234567).
- Attach a copy of your data permit to the email.
- Write down a list of your research teams' email addresses. Please use same emails that they created the CSC-account with.
- Put your research team as cc.
5. CSC adds members to your project
- Please wait that Sensitive Data Support -team adds your research team to your project
- Note! All team members must have a CSC-account, so they can become project members.
6. CSC activates SD Desktop -service for your project
- Please wait that Sensitive Data Support -team activates SD Desktop -service for your project.
- You will receive an email notification, when everything is ready.
7. Accept SD Desktop terms of use
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- If you haven't accepted the terms of use before, please go to MyCSC - navigate to the project view - see left side Service list - click SD Desktop and accept the terms of use.
- Please note that every team member must accept the SD Desktop terms of use.
8. Activate MFA
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- You need to activate MFA (multi-factor authentication) to be able to log in to the Sensitive Data services. More about multi-factor authentication. If your multi-factor authentication is already enabled, you can move to step 9.
- Before activating MFA you need to have some authentication application on your mobile phone, for example Google Authenticator or Microsoft Authenticator.
- Go to the Profile page (Left side menu or top right hamburger menu).
- Enable Multi-Factor Authentication by clicking “Activate”.
- This will create a QR code which you can read with your authentication application (for example Google Authenticator).
- Your authentication application will provide a verification code which you can now write to MyCSC “Verification code” field and click “Verify”.
9. Your CSC project is ready!
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- Write down your project number, you might need it later (e.g. project_1234567).
- Now you can log out from MyCSC and login to SD Desktop.