The Security and

Integrity of Data
The Security
 The security of data means the protection of data.
 Security involves protecting data and software from being:
 Lost losing disks, badly named
 Destroyed fire or flood, deletion
 Corrupted scratches on disk
 Modified written over, updated by mistake
 Disclosed unauthorised access(password related)
 Tampering deliberate change to data
Security Levels

 Physical
 Human
 Operating System
 Network
 Database System
Data Security Requirements

 Confidentiality
o Privacy of Communication
o Secure storage of Sensitive Data
o Authentication(User’s Identity)
o Authorization(Read/Write/Update/Delete/Indexing/Alteration/Drop)
 Integrity
 Availability
Database Integrity

 “Ensuring Correctness and Consistency of

Data”

 Domain Integrity Rules

 Entity Integrity Rules
 Referential Integrity Rules
Data Encryption
Techniques of Encryption

 Substitution Ciphers
 Transposition Ciphers
Algorithms for Encryption

 Data Encryption Standard(DES)

 Public Key Encryption