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Operational controls, part 1

Operational controls, part 1

- [Kelly] All right, now after we look at our management controls, let's move on to talking about our operational controls. And like we said, with our operational controls, these are the types of controls that are implemented by people. Usually, there's a department responsible, or a dedicated set, a dedicated team, perhaps, responsible for carrying out these different types of activities. So we've got all sorts of operational controls. Identity and access management, where we determine how users get accounts on the network and how we control making sure that we have only authorized access. Security event monitoring and analysis, should go without speaking, right? We have to monitor the events that happen on our network, which will then lead us to a quick and, hopefully, effective and efficient incident response capability. Configuration management and change control. We've talked about that multiple times, and how we have to regulate changes in our environment. Under that category…

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