Integrity
What is Integrity?
The principle of ensuring that data is accurate, complete, and has not been modified by unauthorised parties. One of the three pillars of the CIA triad.
Terms that appear alongside integrity
Each of these is named in at least one of the same controls as integrity. The number is how many controls name both.
- confidentiality 175 shared controls
- availability 106 shared controls
- audit 67 shared controls
- nist 60 shared controls
- encryption 54 shared controls
- authentication 53 shared controls
- policy 41 shared controls
- compliance 41 shared controls
Frameworks that govern integrity
What the standards actually require on integrity
Requirements naming integrity across 6 standards, quoted from the control text.
Protect the [Selection (one or more): confidentiality; integrity] of transmitted information.
NIST800-SC-8 · SC-8 Transmission Confidentiality and Integrity →EN 50126-2:2017 10.2.3 covers the factors making up functional safety integrity; the system under consideration applies the method or requirement of this sub-clause where its safety process relies on it.
en-50126-en-50128-en-50129-railway-applications-rams::50126-2:10.2.3 · Safety integrity factors →The system documentation identifies which system functions and interfaces are allocated to software, and fully defines the host system's functions with their interfaces, its application conditions, its architecture or configuration, hazards to control, safety...
en-50716-2023-railway-applications-requirements-for-software-development::4 · Software integrity levels conformance →The asset owner shall protect the integrity of user sessions so that a session cannot be hijacked or replayed.
iec-62443::USER 1.16 · Session integrity →The highest SIL claimable for a safety function is capped by the architectural constraints, met by Route 1H (hardware fault tolerance plus safe failure fraction) or Route 2H (hardware fault tolerance plus field-feedback reliability data at higher confidence).
iec-61508-2010-functional-safety-of-e-e-pe-safety-related-systems::2-7.4.4.1 · Part 2, 7.4.4.1 Hardware safety integrity architectural constraints: general requirements →Protect the [Selection (one or more): confidentiality; integrity] of transmitted information.
nist-sp-800-53-revision-5-1-high::SC-8 · SC-8 Transmission Confidentiality and Integrity →Questions people ask about integrity
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