Integrity

What is it?

Integrity can mean 2 things:

1. The quality of being whole (simply put: To ride your bike, every part must be kept as it is otherwise you can’t ride it)
2. the quality of being honest

Information Security

The CIA Triad

Integrity is one of the 3 fundamentals along with Confidentiality and Availability within The CIA Triad that are principles to ensure security.

Integrity means to keep assets whole, untouched and unchanged preserving what the assets originally had. Simply put, if someone takes money from a bank that's not theirs, this means that the bank account has been changed by someone who doesn't own it

here are some properties that should be followed to maintain integrity:

1. Precise
2. Accurate
   1. Exact details are required, money shouldn’t be a round number and should have decimals
3. Unmodified
   1. Shouldn’t be changed unless in a acceptable manner from acceptable people, Only banks should change your balance
4. Consistent
   1. Must be same for all, If money is stored in different places, it should still have the same balance
5. Meaningful
   1. Should make sense, money stored as words doesn’t make sense compared to numbers
6. Useable
   1. Can be made use of otherwise there is no point