Site Security Planning

Privacy and Integrity

Customers and business partners will send IDs, passwords, financial account data, and other sensitive information to your site. The privacy and integrity of such information will be vulnerable unless it is properly protected as it is routed over the Internet. Privacy and integrity are closely related and are subject to the same threats:

Data intercepted and read by a malicious Internet user compromises the privacy of the transmission. The attacker can now use the information for purposes counter to the owner’s intentions.
Once privacy is compromised, the integrity of the information is threatened. The data can be modified before being sent on to its destination.