THE INFORMATION INTEGRITY IMPERATIVE
An Infogix
Whitepaper
by Madhavan K. Nayar
Contact
Rick Barkal
Vice President of Marketing
Infogix
1.630.505.1800
Abstract
Information Integrity is the dependability or trustworthiness of information. More specifically, in the context of today's information systems, Information Integrity is the accuracy, consistency, and reliability of information content, processes, and systems. Every organization in business, government, and society is concerned about Information Integrity and the consequences of Information Integrity failures. Until recently, we have not recognized the Information Integrity issue as a pervasive, universal phenomenon, despite the fact that the lack of Information Integrity costs our economy hundreds of billions of dollars. This situation offers opportunities for research, education, and improvement.
In the past, we have been able to achieve an acceptable level of Information Integrity because we either had the time to detect and correct Information Integrity failures, or the failures were sufficiently isolated to prevent wide-scale contamination (due to the loosely coupled or discontinuous nature of our systems and processes). However, recent trends in information technology and the business environment are dramatically raising the seriousness of the problem,
and the urgency of finding radically different approaches and solutions to achieve Information Integrity.
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