Countermeasure
What is Countermeasure?
An action, device, procedure, or technique that reduces a threat, vulnerability, or attack by eliminating or preventing it, minimizing harm, or enabling discovery.
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What the standards actually require on countermeasure
Requirements naming countermeasure across 6 standards, quoted from the control text.
Introducing new countermeasures changes how operations are run, so it is carried out through the organization's management system, which makes sure enough resources are provided, effects on other operations are managed, and management backs the change.
iso-28001-2007-supply-chain-security-management::B.7 · B.7 Step six: implementation of countermeasures →Where the unmitigated risk exceeds tolerance, the countermeasures already in place are identified and evaluated for their effect on likelihood and impact, producing a list of countermeasures.
iec-62443::ZCR 5.8 · ZCR 5.8 Identify and evaluate existing countermeasures →The organization should keep a formal documented process for treating risk and choosing countermeasures that considers: removing the source of risk where possible; avoiding the risk by pausing the activity that creates it;
ansi-asis-pap-1-2012-physical-asset-protection::A.4.2.2 · A.4.2.2 A documented risk treatment and countermeasure selection process →Compensating countermeasures may replace or supplement inherent security capabilities to satisfy requirements, provided they meet the intent and rigour of the original requirement, considering the referenced standards and differences from them, and follow 3.1....
iacs-unified-requirements-e26e27-cyber-resilience-of-ships-and-on-board-systems::E27-2.4 · E27 2.4 Compensating countermeasures →After provision starts, gather information on privacy infringements in the AI system or service as appropriate, deal with any infringement recognised, and consider how to prevent recurrence.
japan-ai-guidelines::P-4.ii · P-4) ii. Countermeasures against privacy infringement →The design considers potential performance insufficiencies where an element's output could lead to hazardous behaviour at vehicle level, such as insufficient classification, measurement, tracking, target selection or kinematic estimation, false positive and fa...
iso-21448-2022::5.4 · 5.4 Performance insufficiencies and countermeasures considerations →Questions people ask about countermeasure
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