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Governance, Risk, Audit & Privacy · Intermediate

Control Tailoring

Modifying a control baseline to align with the organization's mission, environment, and risk.

Definition

Tailoring actions include identifying common controls, applying scoping considerations, selecting compensating controls, assigning organization-defined parameter values, supplementing the baseline, and providing specification information. Tailoring decisions must be justified and documented.

Example

A system without wireless capability scopes out the AC-18 wireless access control.

Exam tip

Scoping removes non-applicable controls; tailoring is the broader process that includes scoping.

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