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Compliance Glossary

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

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Management Controls

Management controls are actions implemented to manage the development, maintenance, and use of the system, including procedures, system-specific policies and rules of behaviour,  individual accountability, individual roles and responsibilities, and personnel security decisions.

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