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One of the definitions of Integrity contained in the Common Criteria {2} is “The property....... that assumptions about the known or expected state of information or resources remain true”. This paper seeks to identify the effects that time has on the user assumptions about the expected state of information. Today people are designing world-wide systems accessed by PCs where information can be obtained instantly. Can the user be confused by the information provided by such systems?
The paper concludes that there is a risk of the users being confused. Therefore, there is a requirement for future systems to provide metadata relating to time, and time dependent activities, to enable the user to confirm that the information provided is “fit for purpose”.
This paper has been presented at the IFIP TC-11 SEC’96 conference in Samos, Greece and is included in the proceedings “Information Systems Security: Facing the Information Society of the 21st Century”, edited by Sokratis Katsikas and Dimitris Gritzalis, published by Chapman & Hall, ISBN 0 412 78120 4
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List, W. and Melville, W.R. (1994) Integrity in Information Systems, City University Business School Working Paper
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List, W. (1997). The effects of Time on Integrity in Information Systems. In: Jajodia, S., List, W., McGregor, G., Strous, L. (eds) Integrity and Internal Control in Information Systems. IICIS 1997. IFIP — The International Federation for Information Processing. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-35317-3_19
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