A security safeguard is the same as a:

The correct answer is A. Security control. Security safeguards are approved security measures taken to protect computational resources by eliminating or reducing the risk to a system. These can be measures like hardware and software mechanisms, policies, procedures, and physical controls (see NIST SP 800-28 Version 2…

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ASecurity control
BSafety control
CPrivacy control
DSecurity principle

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Security safeguards are approved security measures taken to protect computational resources by eliminating or reducing the risk to a system. These can be measures like hardware and software mechanisms, policies, procedures, and physical controls (see NIST SP 800-28 Version 2, under safeguard). This definition matches the definition of security control as the means of managing risk, including policies, procedures, guidelines, practices, or organizational structures, which can be of an administrative, technical, management, or legal nature (see NIST SP 800-160 Vol. 2 Rev. 1 under control).

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