The cyber security market in 2012 is estimated at $60 billion, yet adding more and more layers of perimeter security may lead to a false sense of security and be completely useless against a determined system administrator working on the inside. The end result is that your data might be secure or it might not \u2013 you simply have no way to prove it.
\nShawn Henry, FBI veteran of 24 years and now president of CrowdStrike Services had this to say about integrity at the Black Hat conference this year: \u201cThese days, you can\u2019t just protect the information from being viewed. You also need to protect it from being changed or modified.\u201d
\nThis leads to the question: Would you know if an attacker or your own system administrator got to your data?
\nTraditionally, the \u2018integrity\u2019 component of the CIA triad of data security [confidentiality, integrity, availability] has focused on protecting the integrity of data. But proving the integrity of data \u2013 knowing you have not been compromised \u2013 is equally if not more important.<\/p>\n