Glossary of Compliance

Compliance Glossary

Our list of curated compliance glossary offers everything you to know about compliance in one place.

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Logical Controls

Logical controls are the automated system that manages a person’s ability to access one or more resources, such as a workstation, application, network, or database. A logical access control system requires authentication of an individual’s identity using some mechanism such as a  biometric, personal identification number (PIN) card, or other tokens. Different access privileges can be assigned to different persons depending on their roles and responsibilities within an organization.

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