Data Integrity and Management
Data integrity has become a serious issue over the past few years and therefore is a core focus of many enterprises. What is Data Integrity? "Data integrity refers to the fact that data must be reliable and accurate over its entire lifecycle " (Finestone, 2018), meaning that the data lifecycle provides a high level overview of the stages involved in successful management and preservation of data for use and reuse. Data integrity and data security go hand in hand, even though they’re separate concepts. Uncorrupted data (integrity) is considered to be whole and then stay unchanged relative to that complete state. Maintaining or keeping data consistent throughout its lifecycle is a matter of protecting it (security) so that it’s reliable. And data that’s reliable is simply able to meet certain standards, with which compliance is necessary. Data is expected to be (Finestone, 2018): Attributable - Data should clearly demonstrate who observed and recorded it, wh...