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Network Vulnerability Assessment
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Network Vulnerability Assessment

by Sagar Rahalkar
August 2018
Intermediate to advanced
254 pages
6h 20m
English
Packt Publishing
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Integrity

Integrity in the context of information security refers to the quality of the information, meaning the information, once generated, should not be tampered with by any unauthorized entities. For example, if a person sends X amount of money to his friend using online banking, and his friend receives exactly X amount in his account, then the integrity of the transaction is said to be intact. If the transaction gets tampered at all in between, and the friend either receives X + (n) or X - (n) amount, then the integrity is assumed to have been tampered with during the transaction.

Common attacks on integrity include:

  • Salami attacks: When a single attack is divided or broken into multiple small attacks in order to avoid detection, it ...
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ISBN: 9781788627252