Countermeasure
nounid
2035·updated May 9, 2026verified
Actions, devices, procedures, or techniques that meet or oppose (i.e., counters) a threat, a vulnerability, or an attack by eliminating or preventing it, by minimizing the harm it can cause, or by discovering and reporting it so that corrective action can be taken.
Attested in
No recorded attestations. They are written when an MWE tagging stage is completed, stamped with the pack version and the document’s digest.
Classifications
Entity Type
Control95%rule-basedr:entity.control.safeguard.v1
Sensitivity
unclassified
Information Class
unclassified
Variants
- synonym
- safeguardsecurity control
- alternatephrasing
- Countermeasures
- plural
- Countermeasures
- possessive
- Countermeasure's
- pluralpossessive
- Countermeasures'
Framework definitions
- §1
- Reactive methods used to prevent an exploit from successfully occurring once a threat has been detected. Intrusion Prevention Systems (IPS) commonly employ countermeasures to prevent intruders form gaining further access to a computer network. Other counter measures are patches, access control lists and malware filters.
- §1
- Any process that directly reduces a threat or vulnerability
- §1
- Actions and system controls present or undertaken to reduce or moderate the effect of specific vulnerabilities. A synonym for control. The term countermeasure can be used to refer to any type of control, but it is most often used when referring to measures that increase resilience, fault tolerance, or reliability of an IT service.
- §1
- Actions, devices, procedures, or techniques that meet or oppose (i.e., counters) a threat, a vulnerability, or an attack by eliminating or preventing it, by minimizing the harm it can cause, or by discovering and reporting it so that corrective action can be taken.
- §1
- Actions, devices, procedures, or techniques that meet or oppose (i.e., counters) a threat, a vulnerability, or an attack by eliminating or preventing it, by minimizing the harm it can cause, or by discovering and reporting it so that corrective action can be taken.
- §1
- Actions, devices, procedures, techniques, or other measures that reduce the vulnerability of an information system. Synonymous with security controls and safeguards.
- §1
- Actions, devices, procedures, techniques, or other measures that reduce the vulnerability of an information system. Synonymous with security controls and safeguards.
- §1
- Actions, devices, procedures, techniques, or other measures that reduce the vulnerability of an information system. Synonymous with security controls and safeguards.
- §1
- Actions, devices, procedures, or techniques that meet or oppose (i.e., counters) a threat, a vulnerability, or an attack by eliminating or preventing it, by minimizing the harm it can cause, or by discovering and reporting it so that corrective action can be taken.
Risk Management Framework for Information Systems and Organizations: A System Life Cycle Approach for Security and Privacy1 senseview framework →
- §1
- Actions, devices, procedures, techniques, or other measures that reduce the vulnerability of a system. Synonymous with security controls and safeguards.
- §1
- an action taken to offset another action
- §1 · legacy_primary
- Actions, devices, procedures, or techniques that meet or oppose (i.e., counters) a threat, a vulnerability, or an attack by eliminating or preventing it, by minimizing the harm it can cause, or by discovering and reporting it so that corrective action can be taken.DR-088 backfill from the noun definition column
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