Requesting Accounts

To request an account(s) for you or your group, please have your Department Administrator provide a list of users to the HSPH Helpdesk at 432-HELP or helpdesk@hsph.harvard.edu.

Accellion Quickstart Guide:

• Accelion URL: http://accellion.sph.harvard.edu
• Your login is your email address (i.e., jdoe@hsph.harvard.edu).
• Your password is the same as your Novell password.
• Each user is allowed 2 GBs space on the device.
• Each file will remain for 7 days.
• If you are exchanging files that contain high risk confidential information, please remember that retrieved files may not be stored locally on a laptop, desktop machine, or other local storage device.  They must be saved to personal or shared network drives (P:/ and S:/ drives).
• Files which are saved to the Accellion server cannot be accessed or recovered by the IT department.
• There is an excellent user guide available after you log into the secure file transfer website.

Additional information:

• Accellion home page
• Harvard University Enterprise Information Security Policy
• High Risk Confidential Information definition
• Confidential Information definition

If you would like to any discuss security topics and secure data transfer at HSPH further, please feel free to contact Andy Ross, security manager, aross@hsph.harvard.edu, 617-432-1751.