Compensating Security Control

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A management, operational, and/or technical control (i.e., safeguard or countermeasure) employed by an organization in lieu of a recommended security control in the low, moderate, or high baselines that provides equivalent or comparable protection for an information system. NIST SP 800-53: A management, operational, and technical control (i.e., safeguard or countermeasure) employed by an organization in lieu of the recommended control in the baselines described in NIST Special Publication 800-53 or in CNSS Instruction 1253, that provide equivalent or comparable protection for an information system.

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Classifications

per-axis with provenance

Entity Type

Control95%rule-basedr:entity.control.safeguard.v1

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Sensitivity

unclassified

Information Class

unclassified

Variants

7 surface forms

alternatephrasing: Compensating Security Controls
plural: Compensating Security ControlsCompensating Security Controlses
possessive: Compensating Security Control'sCompensating Security Controls's
pluralpossessive: Compensating Security Controls'Compensating Security Controlses'

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