control

{
  "id": "MLC-T-CYB-000925",
  "term": "control",
  "field": "Cybersecurity",
  "definition": "1. The part of the OT system used to monitor and control the physical process. This includes all control servers, field devices, actuators, sensors, and their supporting communication systems.\n\n2. See security control and privacy control.\n\n3. See security control or privacy control.\n\n4. A measure that is modifying risk. (Note: controls include any process, policy, device, practice, or other actions that modify risk.)\n\n5. The means of managing risk, including policies, procedures, guidelines, practices, or organizational structures, which can be of an administrative, technical, management, or legal nature.\n\n6. Purposeful action on or within a process to meet specified objectives.\n\n7. The mechanism that achieves the action.\n\n8. Measure that is modifying risk.\n\n9. measure that is modifying risk. (Note: controls include any process, policy, device, practice, or other actions which modify risk.)",
  "synonyms": [
    "security control and privacy control"
  ],
  "references": [
    "NIST SP 800-82r3",
    "NIST SP 800-37 Rev. 2",
    "NIST SP 800-53 Rev. 5; NIST SP 800-53A Rev. 5",
    "NIST SP 1800-15B from NISTIR 8053; NIST SP 1800-15C from NISTIR 8053",
    "NIST SP 800-160 Vol. 2 Rev. 1 from ISACA Glossary of Terms",
    "NIST SP 800-160v1r1",
    "NIST SP 800-188",
    "NISTIR 8053",
    "NIST CSRC Glossary"
  ],
  "url": "https://mlchart.com/terminology/cybersecurity/control/"
}