CASD, Secure Data Access Center
— Making available secure access to sensitive data
for researchers and datascientists.
— Watch the presentation videoCASD is the first data hosting service in Europe to obtain official GDPR certification (Art. 42) through Europrivacy
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Work, Employment
Society, Justice, Education
Economy, Business, Finance
Environment, Agriculture
Health
577
data sourcesmade available in a secure way (see the complete list of available sources)
2051
managed and hosted projects1234
institutions8222
secure data userssince launch
+400
referenced publications and communications(articles, book chapters, books, theses, reports, conference papers, etc.)
Technology
Secure bubble technology is mostly
used by researchers and data scientists to produce
data analysis.
More recently, with the GDPR
and the various CNIL security standards,
the uses of data are developing in
secure and certified environments for
production of data.
The Bubble is a Full Datalab « turnkey »,
with sufficient power and reference software
in a friendly environment,
forming a tight set of secure servers
SD-BOX secures the data access
via the central CASD infrastructure and the users
work environment by integrating end-to-end
the most demanding certification requirements
of the access station (ISO 27001, ISO 27701, certification
to the health data security reference system, PSSI-MCAS, etc.
Our certifications
Médias
2051 projects developed on the CASD
News
The recording of the 23 June 2026 CASD DATA TECH webinar on DuckDB is now available online, covering its vectorized architecture, user-friendly SQL syntax, RAM/disk optimization, window functions, complementarity with R, and extension ecosystem.
Announced last month, the CASD conference is taking shape! It will be held on Tuesday, 17 November 2026, at the Maison de l’Océan in Paris.
As part of verifying compliance with its ISO-based security policy, CASD will conduct a campaign of on-site visits to SD-Box hosting locations to check, in line with HEBFI contracts, the boxes’ placement, display positioning, and physical integrity.
The ASP/CNIS international conference on 19 June 2026 brought together nearly 300 people to examine the growing threats to the professional independence of public statistics posed by rising populism, declining resources, and challenges to rationality, while highlighting the solidity of the European statistical system and the need for a coalition with research and users to defend this democratic common good.
A new pilot agreement between CASD and Germany’s FDZ/IAB now allows French and German data to be combined within the same secure research environment, accessible via SD-Box, demonstrating the feasibility of jointly and securely exploiting granular international data in compliance with GDPR.
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CASD now hosts SSMSI’s statistical databases on recorded crime (2016–2024), covering offences, victims and suspects — researchers can apply for access at cdap.casd.eu.
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The EDP Users Committee meets on June 23, 2026 (10:00–12:30) to discuss production updates and the EDP redesign — contributions welcome, contact aurelien.lavergne@insee.fr to participate.
EDDI 2026, the 18th European DDI Users Conference, will be held in person in Brussels from November 30 to December 4, 2026 — with tutorials, conference sessions and a hackathon — and the call for proposals is now open.
CASD had the honour of attending the Constances and Gazel Cohorts Scientific Day on May 26, 2026, where the teams’ innovative work producing health and environment data — and the research built upon it — proved highly impressive.