
The planned route was one of the most dangerous, cutting through the western part of what Iraqis call the ‘triangle of death’. He was less forthcoming on his own losses. Sitting in the base’s garden, he seemed calm - or keen to appear so - as he told me about his recent successes against the ‘survivors’ of ISIS (or Daesh). Major-General Haider Yousef, 69, commander of the Iraqi Federal Police’s 5th division and in charge of security operations in Kirkuk province, was preparing to lead a sortie. Box.com - Transfer data between workstation and Box.A column of tactical vehicles armed with machine gunsstood ready on a military base southwest of Kirkuk.Data Downloads - Download data directly through your browser from whitelisted agencies via HTTPS and SFTP.Secure Transfers - Transfer data in and out of Stronghold between whitelisted agencies or personal computers for permitted users though a secure, virus scanned transfer server via SFTP.Remote Access - Access system on campus through Brown Wireless or off campus through the Brown VPN.Web-based GUI allows easy access to source code management tools. Gitlab - Host and manage git repositories on an internal server within the secure environment.Automated Git Sync - Changes made to remote git repositories are automatically pulled to local repositories in Stronghold after initial configuration.Software - Workstations come preinstalled with our Windows Standard Software or Linux Standard Software packages.

Environments - Linux or Windows compute environments available.To view the Stronghold documentation and learn more about the offered features, please follow this link. It has been established by Brown University to be compatible with Federal and Rhode Island Law standards for data privacy and protection.Įach Principal Investigator (PI) is given a dedicated environment for their project to support their researchers, graduate students, and collaborators.

Stronghold is a secure computing and storage environment that enables Brown researchers to analyze sensitive data while complying with regulatory or contractual requirements.
