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Last reviewed and updated | October 20, 2026

Control

A policy, process, procedure, or technical safeguard designed to reduce risk, enforce requirements, or achieve a specific security or compliance objective.

Glossary

Compliance
Control
Continuous controls monitoring (CCM)
Control effectiveness
Control coverage
Control mapping
Control gap
Finding
Traceability
Continuous assurance
Point-in-time audit
Compliance drift
Governance, risk and compliance (GRC)
Compliance
Cybersecurity
Frontier AI
AI-accelerated threat
Exposure management
Continuous threat exposure management (CTEM)
CVSS
Exposure scoring with business context
Asset criticality
Application owner attribution
Remediation validation
Zero-day vulnerability
AI governance
Risk prioritization
Exposure
CVE
Data Management
Entity resolution
Data lineage
Identity and Access
User access review (UAR)
Access certification
Entitlement
Identity governance and administration (IGA)
Disconnected application
Mainframe access review
Reviewer rubber-stamping
Joiner, mover, leaver
Access removal time
Non-human identity
Security Data Fabric
Security data fabric
Open Cybersecurity Schema Framework (OCSF)
Data federation

Why it matters

Controls are the mechanisms organizations use to protect assets, manage risk, and demonstrate compliance. Without controls, risks remain unmanaged and outcomes become difficult to measure.

How it works

  1. Identify the objective or risk.
  2. Design the control.
  3. Implement and operate it.
  4. Monitor and validate its effectiveness.