CHAPTER 5Security Controls: Objective 1.3 Understand Security Controls

Security professionals spend the majority of their time designing, implementing, and managing security controls as countermeasures to the risks they identify during risk assessments. It's important that security professionals have a strong understanding of the different types of controls and how they work.

In this chapter, you'll learn about CC objective 1.3. The following subobjectives are covered in this chapter:

  • Technical controls
  • Administrative controls
  • Physical controls

WHAT ARE SECURITY CONTROLS?

Security controls are procedures and mechanisms that an organization puts in place to address security risks in some manner. This might include trying to reduce the ...

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