Risk mitigation
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Prioritizing, evaluating, and implementing the appropriate risk-reducing controls/countermeasures recommended from the risk management process.
MWENISTIR 7298: Glossary of Key Information Security Terms, Revision 2
Senses
ISACA Cybersecurity Glossary
The management of risk through the use of countermeasures and controls
Federal Financial Institutions Examination Council (FFIEC) IT Examination Handbook Infobase, Glossary
The process of reducing risks through the introduction of specific controls and risk transfer. It includes the implementation of appropriate controls to reduce the potential for risk and bring the level of risk in line with the board's risk appetite.
NIST SP 800-171r3attested usage pack match
No definition is given in NIST SP 800-171r3. The term is attested in use at 1 citation in that document; a definition is pending curation.
Classifications
Entity Type
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Sensitivity
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Information Class
—60%llm-generatedllm:claude-haiku-4-5
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Variants
- plural
- Risk mitigations
- possessive
- Risk mitigation's
- pluralpossessive
- Risk mitigations'