information security control

nouncandidate·updated May 9, 2026

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Practices and procedures established to protect information and information systems from unauthorized access, use, disclosure, disruption, modification, or destruction in order to provide integrity, confidentiality, and availability.

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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

4 surface forms

synonym: information security measure
plural: information security controls
possessive: information security control's
pluralpossessive: information security controls'

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