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Integrity

Integrity

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Integrity

- [Instructor] At its core, security is ultimately about trust. How do you know that you can trust the people who have access to your data? Will they use that access appropriately? Will they be able to bypass your controls and alter the data? This need for trust is one of the reasons that integrity controls are so important. Integrity is as essential to security as confidentiality or availability. While the priority of each type of control will vary based on an organization's overall risk appetite, the need for integrity controls will remain constant. So what, exactly, do I mean by integrity? You rely on integrity controls to ensure that data is protected from unauthorized changes. This holds true for data at rest and data in motion. And it's often accomplished by comparing a given value to a value that the app already knows to be true. Take ecommerce apps, for example. An ecommerce application will provide a user…

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