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The Biba Integrity Model is a hierarchical security model designed to protect system assets (or objects) from unauthorized modification; which is to say it is designed to protect system integrity. In this model, subjects and objects are associated with ordinal integrity levels where subjects can modify objects only at a level equal to or below its own integrity level.
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The Biba Integrity Model is named after its inventor, Kenneth J. Biba, who created the model in the late 1970s to supplement the Bell–LaPadula security model, which could not ensure “complete” information assurance on its own because it did not protect system integrity. The Biba policy is now implemented alongside Bell–LaPadula on high assurance systems...
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Aaron Estes, C. (2011). Biba Integrity Model. In: van Tilborg, H.C.A., Jajodia, S. (eds) Encyclopedia of Cryptography and Security. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-5906-5_774
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