Integrity

Integrity effectively means ensuring that data or communications are 'unaltered'. In the context of security, integrity doesn't cover alteration of data or interactions because of nonmalicious, unintentional errors. Taking care of those is the job of error recovery on a local or network scale. Instead, integrity means ensuring that data or communications aren't tampered with. For example:

In this context, even authentication can be construed as an aspect of integrity. It preserves the integrity of presenting an identity.

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