The year 2017 began with the ASPREE Data Management Team seeking advice on an emerging need for a collaborative sensitive analysis environment. Back then HPC and clouds were very much the realm of categorically non-sensitive data, and secure (“red zoned”) systems were very much the realm of categorically non-collaborative data. This bifurcation was rife in health and social sciences. This Research Cloud engagement with ASPREE was seminal work to transition the Monash research environment towards a continuum (rather than bifurcation) between collaboration and sensitive expectations.