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Glossary: Policies, Standards and Risk Management

current mitigations

Also written: existing controls, controls already in place

The controls already in place that lower a risk's likelihood or impact; analysis counts them only if they are proven to work against this particular threat. R-01's endpoint protection and tested backups lowered its score from 20 to 12.

Where the book teaches it

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mitigationinherent riskcurrent riskresidual risk