1. Directive Controls
1. Generally administrative, more guides and procedures.
2. Established before the a risk event occurs.
2. Corrective Controls
1. Can be either a manual or automatic process to limit the impact of a risk event.
3. Preventive Controls
1. Designed to proactively identify and mitigate potential threats and their probaility of ocurring.
4. Recovery Controls
1. Return a system back to an acceptable state of operation.
2. These controls are only relevant to a risk event after it has occured.
5. Detective Controls
1. Identifiees when a risk event has occured.
6. Deterrent Controls
1. Meant to alter the risk to reward ratio for threat actors by advertising some or all consequences associated with damaging a system. This makes the risk higher than the reward, hopefully deterring threat actors.
7. Compensating Controls
1. Either augments a primary control to achieve the required level of risk reduction/mitigation or is the fall back for the primary control in the case that the primary control fails.
ISO 27000 Series Standards:
Total of 93 controls focused on four broad topics::
1. Organizational Controls = 37 controls
2. People Controls = 8 controls
3. Physical Controls = 14 controls
4. Technological Controls = 34 controls