Mitigation Glossary
Browse 6 mitigation terms defined in plain English, from the cultural dictionary of computing.
6 Mitigation Terms
- Anti-DDoS
- Designed to prevent, absorb, or mitigate distributed denial-of-service attacks. Anti-DDoS systems typically combine traffic filtering, rate controls,...
- Deflection
- The rerouting of malicious or unwanted traffic away from a protected service toward a scrubbing center, sinkhole, or other mitigation path. Deflection is...
- Risk Control
- A safeguard or process put in place to reduce the likelihood or impact of a particular risk. Risk controls may be preventative, detective, corrective, or...
- Risk Mitigation
- The reduction of risk through controls, process changes, redesign, monitoring, or other actions that lower likelihood or impact. Mitigation does not always...
- Risk Reduction
- The decrease in the likelihood or impact of a risk after controls, remediation, redesign, or operational changes are put in place. Risk reduction is the actual...
- Workaround
- A temporary method for avoiding or reducing the impact of a problem without actually fixing the underlying cause. In engineering culture, workarounds are often...
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- Traffic Management (1 terms in common)