From the course: Cert Prep: ISC2 Certified in Cybersecurity (CC)
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Integrity
From the course: Cert Prep: ISC2 Certified in Cybersecurity (CC)
Integrity
- Security professionals are also responsible for protecting the integrity of their organization's information. Integrity means that we don't allow any unauthorized changes to information. And these unauthorized changes may come in the form of an attacker who's seeking to intentionally alter information, or some kind of service or technology disruption that accidentally affects the data stored in a system. In either case it's an IT professional's responsibility to prevent these lapses in integrity. As you prepare for the exam, you'll need to know about four different types of integrity attacks, the unauthorized modification of information, impersonation attacks, man in the middle attacks, and replay attacks. And the unauthorized modification of information occurs when an attacker gains access to a system and makes changes that violate a security policy. This might be an external attacker, such as an intruder…
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