CHAPTER 9

Controls and Countermeasures

In this chapter, you will learn about

•  Goals of controls and countermeasures

•  Differences between deterrent, preventive, detective, corrective, and compensating controls

•  Differences between management, technical, operational, and physical controls

•  Differences between policies, standards, procedures, and guidelines

•  Basic controls such as change control, configuration management, and patching systems

•  Mobile device management methods and other endpoint device security concepts

•  Use of RAID subsystems to provide fault tolerance

•  Use of failover of clusters to protect against the failure of a server

•  Different types of backups, such as full, differential, and incremental

Using Controls, ...

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