CHAPTER 9
Controls and Countermeasures

In this chapter, you will learn about

• Goals of controls and countermeasures

• Difference between preventive, detective, and corrective controls

• Difference between management, technical, and operational controls

• The use of hardening a system as a control

• Differences between policies and procedures

• Basic controls such as change control and configuration management

• Use of RAID disks to provide fault tolerance

• Use of failover of clusters to protect against the loss of a server

• Different types of backups, such as full, differential, and incremental