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Data integrity ensures data remains accurate, consistent, complete, and trustworthy throughout its entire lifecycle, from creation to deletion. It’s achieved by implementing processes and controls to protect data from unauthorized alterations, accidental modification, corruption, or loss. Maintaining data integrity is crucial for making reliable business decisions, ensuring data quality, and preventing negative consequences like failed systems or eroded public trust. 

Data integrity is the opposite of data corruption.[4] The overall intent of any data integrity technique is the same: ensure data is recorded exactly as intended (such as a database correctly rejecting mutually exclusive possibilities). Moreover, upon later retrieval, ensure the data is the same as when it was originally recorded. In short, data integrity aims to prevent unintentional changes to information. Data integrity is not to be confused with data security, the discipline of protecting data from unauthorized parties.

 

Data Integrity

2025-10-14T13:12:03+00:00

Data Integrity: Identifying and Protecting Assets Against Ransomware and Other Destructive Events - December 2020 Ransomware, destructive malware, insider threats, and even honest user mistakes present ongoing threats to organizations. Organizations' data, such as database records, system files, configurations, user files, applications, and customer data, are all potential targets of data corruption, modification, and destruction. Formulating a defense against these threats requires two things: a thorough knowledge of the assets within the enterprise, and the protection of these assets against the threat of data corruption and destruction. https://www.nist.gov/publications/data-integrity-identifying-and-protecting-assets-against-ransomware-and-other

Data Integrity2025-10-14T13:12:03+00:00

Data Integrity

2025-10-14T13:18:16+00:00

Data Integrity: Detecting and Responding to Ransomware and Other Destructive Events - DECEMBER 2020 Ransomware, destructive malware, insider threats, and even honest mistakes present an ongoing threat to organizations that manage data in various forms. Database records and structure, system files, configurations, user files, application code, and customer data are all potential targets of data corruption and destruction. A timely, accurate, and thorough detection and response to a loss of data integrity can save an organization time, money, and headaches https://www.nist.gov/publications/data-integrity-detecting-and-responding-ransomware-and-other-destructive-events

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Foundations for our Future Whitepaper

2021-07-02T09:31:03+00:00

Data-driven Economies: Foundations for our Common Future Whitepaper Published on the 5th April 2021 This White Paper recommends creating new data governance models that combine data from various origins, including personal, commercial and/or government sources. It highlights use cases from industries and jurisdictions around the world to illustrate the possibilities data sharing unlocks for multiple stakeholders and the public good. It discusses the Data for Common Purpose Initiative approach to enabling these data-sharing scenarios on a broader scale, the underlying technology to support them and some foundational considerations for success. The initiative aims to find ways to [...]

Foundations for our Future Whitepaper2021-07-02T09:31:03+00:00

Responding to Ransomware

2021-07-02T09:36:45+00:00

Data Integrity: Detecting and Responding to Ransomware and Other Destructive Events Published on the 1st December 2020 Ransomware, destructive malware, insider threats, and even honest mistakes present an ongoing threat to organizations that manage data in various forms. Database records and structure, system files, configurations, user files, application code, and customer data are all potential targets of data corruption and destruction. A timely, accurate, and thorough detection and response to a loss of data integrity can save an organization time, money, and headaches. Once AI has effectively identified the potential risks and threats, the next step is [...]

Responding to Ransomware2021-07-02T09:36:45+00:00

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