Integrity Verification
What is Integrity Verification?
The process of confirming that data, systems, or configurations have not been tampered with or altered from their authorized state.
Terms that appear alongside integrity verification
Each of these is named in at least one of the same controls as integrity verification. The number is how many controls name both.
- integrity 34 shared controls
- vulnerability 9 shared controls
- nist 9 shared controls
- audit 8 shared controls
- encryption 7 shared controls
- cybersecurity 6 shared controls
- access control 6 shared controls
- authentication 6 shared controls
Frameworks that govern integrity verification
What the standards actually require on integrity verification
Requirements naming integrity verification across 6 standards, quoted from the control text.
Require the developer of the system, system component, or system service to enable integrity verification of hardware components.
NIST800-SA-10(3) · SA-10(3) Developer Configuration Management | Hardware Integrity Verification →Employ automated tools that provide notification to [Assignment: organization-defined personnel or roles] upon discovering discrepancies during integrity verification.
nist-sp-800-53-revision-5-1-high::SI-7(2) · SI-7(2) Software, Firmware, and Information Integrity | Automated Notifications of Integrity Violations →Request and perform data origin authentication and data integrity verification on the name and address resolution responses received from authoritative sources.
fbi-cjis-security-policy::SC-21 · SC-21 Secure Name/Address Resolution Service (Recursive or Caching Resolver) →Employ integrity verification tools to detect unauthorized changes to software, firmware, information; HIGH only.
SI-7 · Software, Firmware, and Information Integrity →Employ integrity verification tools to detect unauthorized changes to software, firmware, information; HIGH only.
SI-7 · Software, Firmware, and Information Integrity →Request and perform data origin authentication and data integrity verification on the name/address resolution responses the system receives from authoritative sources.
nist-sp-800-53-rev-5-moderate::SC-21 · SC-21 Secure Name/Address Resolution Service (Recursive or Caching Resolver) →Questions people ask about integrity verification
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