Log Integrity

Noun · Security & Infosec

Definitions

  1. The assurance that log records are complete, authentic, ordered correctly, and have not been altered or deleted without detection. Protecting log integrity often involves remote shipping, access controls, hashing, signing, or append-only storage patterns.

    In plain English: Confidence that logs have not been secretly changed or deleted.

    Example: "The attacker had admin access on the server, so remote forwarding was the only reason log integrity held up during the investigation."

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