Integrity Glossary

Browse 29 integrity terms defined in plain English, from the cultural dictionary of computing.

29 Integrity Terms

AES-GCM
A mode of operation for AES that provides both confidentiality and integrity through authenticated encryption, using Galois/Counter Mode. It is common in...
Anti-Cheat
Security and integrity measures used in games to detect or prevent unfair manipulation such as aim bots, memory tampering, or unauthorized automation....
Anti-Replay
Intended to prevent replay attacks, where a valid captured message or credential is resent later to fraudulently repeat an action. Anti-replay protections...
Benchmark Contamination
When benchmark test data leaks into a model's training set, inflating evaluation scores without genuine capability improvement. A pervasive problem in LLM...
Boot Integrity
Boot Integrity is the assurance that firmware and early boot components have not been modified before the operating system starts. Security teams use it to...
Canary
A deliberately placed marker or value used to detect tampering, exploitation, or unexpected access, such as a stack canary, token canary, or canary document....
Code Signing
Code Signing is the use of digital signatures to prove software origin and detect unauthorized modification before execution. Security teams use it to enforce...
Collision Resistance
A property of a cryptographic hash function meaning it should be computationally infeasible to find two different inputs that produce the same output. Strong...
Cryptographic Hash
Cryptographic Hash is a one-way function that maps arbitrary input to a fixed-size digest used for integrity and indexing. Security teams use it to enforce...
Cryptographic Signature
A value produced with a private key that lets others verify integrity and origin using the corresponding public key. Cryptographic signatures are fundamental...
Data Integrity
The property that data remains accurate, complete, and unaltered except through authorized, intended changes. In security work, protecting data integrity is as...
Data Tampering
The unauthorized modification of data in transit, at rest, or during processing so that systems or people receive false information. It can support fraud,...
Digital Signature
A cryptographic scheme that proves a message was created by a known sender (authentication) and wasn't altered in transit (integrity). The signer hashes the...
DNSSEC
Short for Domain Name System Security Extensions, a set of DNS protocol additions that let resolvers verify that DNS data was signed by the correct zone and...
Fabrication Attack
An attack that injects forged data, events, messages, or telemetry into a system so defenders or automated processes act on false information. Fabrication...
File Hash
A digest value computed from a file's contents using a hashing algorithm such as SHA-256, used to identify files, detect changes, or compare against known-bad...
File Integrity Monitoring
File Integrity Monitoring is continuous checking of important files for unauthorized change, deletion, or replacement. Security teams use it to enforce trust,...
Hash
A fixed-size output produced by a hash function from arbitrary input data. Cryptographic hashes are one-way (irreversible), deterministic, and...
HMAC
Hash-based Message Authentication Code — a construction that combines a cryptographic hash function with a secret key to produce a message authentication code....
HMAC Authentication
HMAC Authentication is message authentication based on a keyed hash so a receiver can verify integrity and shared-secret knowledge. Security teams use it to...
Integrity Check
A test used to confirm that data, files, firmware, or system state have not been altered unexpectedly. Integrity checks commonly rely on hashes, signatures,...
Integrity Monitoring
Integrity Monitoring is the ongoing verification that important data, files, or system states have not changed unexpectedly. Security teams use it to enforce...
Integrity Verification
The process of proving that a system component, dataset, message, or file remains authentic and unmodified from a trusted state. Integrity verification is...
Log Integrity
The assurance that log records are complete, authentic, ordered correctly, and have not been altered or deleted without detection. Protecting log integrity...
Message Authentication Code
Message Authentication Code is a keyed cryptographic check that proves message integrity and shared-secret possession. Security teams use it to enforce trust,...
Message Digest
A fixed-length hash value computed from input data and used to detect changes, compare content, or support cryptographic protocols. The term appears both...
Non-Repudiation
A property that provides strong evidence that a specific party performed an action or sent a message, making it difficult for them to deny involvement later....
SLSA
Supply-chain Levels for Software Artifacts (pronounced 'salsa') — a security framework with four levels of increasing rigor for protecting software build...
WORM Storage
Write-once, read-many storage that prevents later modification or deletion of retained data. It shows up in application security, identity, infrastructure, or...

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