Data integrity

Data Integrity: The quality of correctness, completeness, wholeness, soundness and compliance with the intention of the creators of the data. It is achieved by preventing accidental or deliberate but unauthorized insertion, modification or destruction of data in a database. Data that has integrity is identically maintained during any operation (such as transfer, storage or retrieval). Put simply in business terms, data integrity is the assurance that data is consistent, certified and can be reconciled. [1]

Data integrity is one of the six fundamental components of information security.

References: [1] Data integrity Wikipedia page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data integrity