Risk Control
Noun · Security & Infosec
Definitions
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 compensating depending on what part of the risk they are meant to influence.
In plain English: A safeguard used to reduce a specific risk.
Example: "Segmenting the admin interface behind a bastion host was treated as the key risk control until the vulnerable service could be rewritten."