Tamper Detection
What is Tamper Detection?
Mechanisms that detect and alert on physical tampering with devices, enclosures, or seals protecting sensitive equipment or data.
Terms that appear alongside tamper detection
Each of these is named in at least one of the same controls as tamper detection. The number is how many controls name both.
- integrity 11 shared controls
- nist 6 shared controls
- authentication 6 shared controls
- iec 62443 5 shared controls
- secure boot 4 shared controls
- audit 4 shared controls
- vulnerability 3 shared controls
- penetration testing 3 shared controls
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What the standards actually require on tamper detection
Requirements naming tamper detection across 6 standards, quoted from the control text.
Part 11 secures XML-based files such as CIM exchanges and IEC 61850 SCL configuration files, which are otherwise transferred without any signature: it provides a mechanism to authenticate the file's source, a mechanism for tamper detection, and does so while k...
iec-62351-power-systems-communication-security::11:XML · Part 11: security for XML files (source authentication, tamper detection, compatibility with CIM and SCL formats) →No baseline or enhanced requirement; at the Extended Profile the plan must require physical tamper detection mechanisms on IAC cyber assets (tamper-evident tape, physical access alerting).
api-1164::PR.DS-8 · PR.DS-8 Physical tamper detection on IAC cyber assets (Extended) →Detect and respond to tampering of OT devices, cabinets, and network equipment through seals, sensors, alarms, and inspection procedures.
OT-PHYS-3 · Tamper Detection and Response →The entity must deploy a mechanism for detecting changes and tampering which: warns personnel of any unauthorized modification (changes, additions, deletions and indicators of compromise) to the HTTP headers that affect security and to the scripts in payment p...
11.6.1 · 11.6.1 Payment page tamper detection →Multiple-chip embedded modules use a production-grade enclosure and a tamper-evident coating, potting or enclosure; multiple-chip standalone modules sit wholly in a metal or hard plastic production-grade enclosure.
etsi-industry-specification-group-isg-on-quantum-key-distribution-qkd::008.4.7.2 · 008.4.7.2 Embedded and standalone embodiments: enclosures, locks and tamper envelopes →Tamper detection on the Host System raises an alert when its case, covers or doors are opened.
pci-p2pe::4D-2.9 · PCI P2PE 4D-2.9 →Questions people ask about tamper detection
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