| |
|
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.
|
| |
|