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Integrity

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Guarding against improper information modification or destruction and includes ensuring information nonrepudiation and authenticity. [20]

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SANS Glossary of Security Terms

Integrity is the need to ensure that information has not been changed accidentally or deliberately, and that it is accurate and complete.

National Initiative for Cybersecurity Careers and Studies (NICCS) Cybersecurity Lexiconextended definition available

The property whereby information, an information system, or a component of a system has not been modified or destroyed in an unauthorized manner.

ISACA Cybersecurity Glossary

The guarding against improper information modification or destruction, and includes ensuring information non-repudiation and authenticity

FFIEC IT Examination Handbook - Audit, April 2012

Guarding against improper information modification or destruction, and includes ensuring information non-repudiation and authenticity.

CPMI-IOSCO Guidance on Cyber Resilience for Financial Market Infrastructures

With reference to information, an information system or a component of a system, the property of not having been modified or destroyed in an unauthorised manner.26

Federal Financial Institutions Examination Council (FFIEC) IT Examination Handbook Infobase, Glossary

Assurance that information is trustworthy and accurate; ensuring that information will not be accidentally or maliciously altered or destroyed (see “Data integrity”).

NISTIR 7298: Glossary of Key Information Security Terms, Revision 2sense 2 pending review

The property that sensitive data has not been modified or deleted in an unauthorized and undetected manner.

NISTIR 7298: Glossary of Key Information Security Terms, Revision 2sense 3 pending review

The property whereby an entity has not been modified in an unauthorized manner.

integrity

the quality of moral consistency, honesty, and truthfulness with oneself and others.

Systems and software engineering —Vocabulary

Degree to which a system, product, or component prevents unauthorized access to, or modification of, computer programs or data.

ISO/IEC TS 5723:2022(en) Trustworthiness — Vocabulary

property whereby data have not been altered in an unauthorized manner since they were created, transmitted, or stored; property of accuracy and completeness

Wordset Dictionary

moral soundness

Wordset Dictionary

an undivided or unbroken completeness or totality with nothing wanting

NIST SP 800-171r3glossary

Guarding against improper information modification or destruction and includes ensuring information nonrepudiation and authenticity. [79]

Classifications

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Sensitivity

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Information Class

unclassified

Variants

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