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# What is Secure Access?

**Secure Access** enables direct access to row-level data via a zero-footprint mechanism implemented within the FCP. This allows a user to view data loaded onto their Rhino Client through the Rhino FCP cloud application without having the data leave the Rhino Client. Secure access can be extremely useful for use cases such as annotation on distributed data. By default, a user can only use Secure Access on data that belongs to their workgroup.

You'll need enable to Secure Access to view and/or annotate a dataset's tabular data or to view and/or annotate a dataset's image data within the OHIF view.

However, if a user would like to access a collaborator's data, they should ask their collaborators to create a **Secure Access List** and grant them time-limited access to the data. A remote Collaborator can select exactly which rows from a Dataset they would like to share, with whom they share the data, and for how long they would like to share it.&#x20;


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