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Integrity Monitoring

What is Integrity Monitoring?

Continuous surveillance of systems and data to detect unauthorized modifications, ensuring that information and configurations remain in their authorized state.

Information Security

Terms that appear alongside integrity monitoring

Each of these is named in at least one of the same controls as integrity monitoring. The number is how many controls name both.

Frameworks that govern integrity monitoring

ISO 27001:2022View framework →NIST SP 800-53 Rev 5View framework →NIST Cybersecurity Framework 2.0View framework →

What the standards actually require on integrity monitoring

Requirements naming integrity monitoring across 6 standards, quoted from the control text.

GLI-33 - Gaming Laboratories International Event Wagering Systems7 controls

GLI-33 responsible gaming + integrity + anti-fraud. RESPONSIBLE GAMING (RG): MANDATORY FEATURES including (a) deposit limits (daily + weekly + monthly + per-transaction); (b) wager limits + loss limits; (c) session-time limits + cool-off periods;

GLI33-ResponsibleGaming-Integrity-AntiFraud · GLI-33 Responsible Gaming, Self-Exclusion, Integrity Monitoring, Anti-Fraud and Collusion Detection →
ITU-T X.805 - Security Architecture for End-to-End Communications1 control

Security Dimension 6 Data Integrity per X.805 Clause 6.6: Data Integrity ensures the correctness or accuracy of data. The data is protected against unauthorized modification + deletion + creation + replication and provides an indication of these unauthorized a...

X805-Dim6-Data-Integrity-Correctness-Accuracy-Unauthorized-Modification-Deletion-Detection · ITU-T X.805 Security Dimension 6 - Data Integrity + Correctness + Accuracy + Unauthorized Modification Prevention + Deletion Detection + Hashing + HMAC + Digital Signatures + Merkle Trees + Blockchain Integrity + File Integrity Monitoring (FIM) →
NIST SP 1800-321 control

Monitor the integrity of DER device settings, control logic, and configuration files to detect unauthorized changes.

DER-DE-03 · Integrity Monitoring of DER Settings →
PCI DSS 4.03 controls

File integrity monitoring or change-detection mechanisms are used on audit logs to ensure that existing log data cannot be changed without generating alerts.

10.3.4 · File integrity or change detection on logs →
Australian Information Security Manual1 control

When using a software-based isolation mechanism to share a physical server's hardware, integrity monitoring and centralised event logging is performed for the isolation mechanism and underlying operating system.

ISM-1607 · When using a software-based isolation mechanism to share a physical server's hardware, int →
GAMP 5 - Good Automated Manufacturing Practice1 control

GAMP 5 implementation roadmap for an organization. ORGANIZATIONAL ROLES: (a) QUALITY ASSURANCE - GAMP 5 program ownership + compliance oversight; (b) VALIDATION LEAD - per-system validation execution + traceability + reporting;

GAMP5-Implementation-Roadmap · GAMP 5 Implementation Roadmap - Organizational Roles, Training and Tooling →

Questions people ask about integrity monitoring

What is Integrity Monitoring?
Continuous surveillance of systems and data to detect unauthorized modifications, ensuring that information and configurations remain in their authorized state.
Why is Integrity Monitoring important for compliance?
Integrity Monitoring is a key concept in Information Security. Understanding integrity monitoring helps organizations meet regulatory requirements, reduce risk, and demonstrate due diligence during audits. Our compliance platform maps 686 frameworks with 311K cross-framework control mappings.
Which compliance frameworks address Integrity Monitoring?
Integrity Monitoring appears in the requirement text of GLI-33 - Gaming Laboratories International Event Wagering Systems, ITU-T X.805 - Security Architecture for End-to-End Communications, NIST SP 1800-32, PCI DSS 4.0, Australian Information Security Manual. Across these standards we have identified 14 controls that name it directly, each linked to the control text on the compliance platform.
Where can I learn more about Integrity Monitoring?
Explore our compliance framework pages to see how integrity monitoring applies across different standards and regulations. Our implementation guides provide step-by-step guidance, and the compliance platform offers AI-powered analysis of how this concept maps across 686 frameworks.

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Written and maintained by Gerard Blokdyk, The Art of Service.