
2.3.11 Data Integrity Service
Figure 26. Data Integrity Service
Key Points
Data Integrity is the key security service for detecting unauthorized modification
of data due to errors or malicious attack.
Presentation Script
Data integrity provides detection of the unauthorized modification of data.
Organizations must allow for the use of data by authorized users and
applications, as well as the transmission of data for remote processing. Data
integrity facilities can indicate whether information has been altered. Data may
be altered in two ways: because of hardware or transmission errors or because
of an attack. For years, many IBM products have used a checksum ...