Fill in the blank: Data _____ involves the accuracy, completeness, consistency, and trustworthiness of data throughout its lifecycle.

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Fill in the blank: Data _____ involves the accuracy, completeness, consistency, and trustworthiness of data throughout its lifecycle.

Data integrity focuses on keeping data accurate, complete, consistent, and trustworthy from creation to retirement. This means as data moves through systems, gets updated, or is reused, its correctness is preserved and it isn’t corrupted or altered in unintended ways. Organizations support integrity with validation checks, error detection, versioning, audit trails, and appropriate access controls to prevent unauthorized changes. This emphasis on trustworthiness and correctness across the data’s lifecycle differentiates it from security (protecting data from unauthorized access), governance (policies and stewardship), and quality (fitness for use). Therefore, the correct term is integrity.

Data integrity focuses on keeping data accurate, complete, consistent, and trustworthy from creation to retirement. This means as data moves through systems, gets updated, or is reused, its correctness is preserved and it isn’t corrupted or altered in unintended ways. Organizations support integrity with validation checks, error detection, versioning, audit trails, and appropriate access controls to prevent unauthorized changes. This emphasis on trustworthiness and correctness across the data’s lifecycle differentiates it from security (protecting data from unauthorized access), governance (policies and stewardship), and quality (fitness for use). Therefore, the correct term is integrity.

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