Glossary of Compliance
Compliance Glossary
Our list of curated compliance glossary offers everything you to know about compliance in one place.
Organizational Controls
Organizational controls reduce or mitigate the risk to the organization’s assets, including people, property, and data and include any type of policy, technique, procedure, method, solution, action, plan, or device designed to help accomplish that goal.
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