An editor is checking punctuation in a passage about research data storage. At the start of a new term, the institutional research unit updated procedures for storing confidential survey files. The project team based its choices on security audits and records-retention requirements. Before the final rollout, the unit expects to move active projects into the approved storage system. The effort may protect sensitive data while allowing authorized collaboration. The draft includes this sentence: Analysts placed the files in a [password protected, cloud based folder]. Which answer correctly edits the bracketed words without changing the intended meaning of the research data storage passage?