Glossary of Data Communications Terms

Courtesy Enterprise-Wide Computing, Inc.

Term: integrity (of data)
Definition: the property that data have not been altered or destroyed in an unauthorized manner; an attack on integrity would seek to erase a file that should not be erased, alter an element of a database improperly, corrupt the audit trail for a series of events, propagate a virus, etc.

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