Jacky gives the background to the creation of the Farr Institute, Medical Bioinformatics Initiative and Administrative Data Research Centres. She then goes on to describe the work being undertaken with these centres and Janet to try and find solutions that allow data to be accessed securely, data shared safely and to support the partners to work together collaboratively. Hence two projects looking at a secure network layer over Janet and at options for authentication, authorisation, allocation and identity management (AAAI).