Data Security Report: Confidentiality vs. Integrity Analysis

This report analyzes the relationship between information confidentiality and integrity, key components of data security. The assignment begins by defining information integrity as the consistency, accuracy, and reliability of data processes and content, contrasting it with confidentiality, which protects data from unauthorized access. The report argues that while integrity focuses on preventing unauthorized data alterations, confidentiality restricts data access. The author concludes that integrity can be maintained even when confidentiality is compromised, but not vice versa. The report references the CIA triad (confidentiality, integrity, and availability) and emphasizes that confidentiality does not necessarily imply integrity. The provided solution clearly explains the differences between confidentiality and integrity, and how they relate to each other within the context of data security and information management. The assignment also includes a brief overview of the author's note and references, supporting the arguments with relevant sources.

Running head: INTEGRITY VS. CONFIDENTIALITY
INTEGRITY VS. CONFIDENTIALITY
Name of the Student:
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Does information confidentiality imply information integrity?
With the advancement of the technology, new security issues are emerging on a daily
basis. With the evolution of the cloud based information system the integrity and the
confidentiality of the data is completely at a threat. According to CIA triad, confidentiality,
integrity and availability of the data is considered while taking certain measures in the security
(Covert et al., 2020).
As per the definition of information integrity, it is the way in which the consistency,
accuracy and the reliability of the processes, systems and the content of the information is
maintained. This does not means that the data is confidential. Confidentiality on the other hand is
referred to as the process of protecting information from the third party access. The people with
authorized access is capable of accessing the confidential data.
Thus it can be said that the integrity of the data does not implies confidentiality as,
integrity is the process of protecting the data from the unauthorized changes in it such that the
entire data that is provided is reliable and accurate, whereas, confidentiality is a set of protocols
that are implemented to limit the access of data (Gill, Kapur & Gill, 2018). Where confidentiality
ensures the security against viewing any data without prior authorization, integrity assures that
the information that has been provided is completely reliable and has not been altered at any
cost.
For affecting the integrity of the data one has to access the information databases and
make changes, whereas the confidentiality of the data is lost even if it is viewed by an
unauthorized third party. Hence, integrity can be maintained while the confidentiality is lost, but

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the reverse is not true. Thus it can be said that “information confidentiality implies information
integrity”, on the contrary, integrity of information implies confidentiality is not true.

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References:
Covert, Q., Steinhagen, D., Francis, M., & Streff, K. (2020, January). Towards a Triad for Data
Privacy. In Proceedings of the 53rd Hawaii International Conference on System
Sciences.
Gill, R. D., Kapur, N., & Gill, H. S. (2018). Increase security of data with respect to both
confidentiality and integrity over cloud. International Journal of Applied Engineering
Research, 13(10), 7388-7391.