Management Controls

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Actions taken to manage the development, maintenance, and use of the system, including system-specific policies, procedures and rules of behavior, individual roles and responsibilities, individual accountability, and personnel security decisions.

MWENISTIR 7298: Glossary of Key Information Security Terms, Revision 2

Senses

2 more senses beyond the canonical

NISTIR 7298: Glossary of Key Information Security Terms, Revision 2

The security controls (i.e., safeguards or countermeasures) for an information system that focus on the management of risk and the management of information system security.

Wordset Dictionary

an internal control performed by one or more managers

Classifications

per-axis with provenance

Entity Type

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Sensitivity

unclassified

Information Class

unclassified

Variants

3 surface forms

alternatephrasing: Management Control
possessive: Management Controls's
pluralpossessive: Management Controlses'

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