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Joanna's organization has a policy that requires a user's password to be immediately reset to lock accounts if the account is determined to have been successfully phished. What type of control is this?

Answer Options

A

A detective control

B

A directive control

C

A compensating control

D

A preventive control

Correct Answer: B

Explanation

Policies are examples of directive controls. This could also be considered a corrective control, but that is not one of the options listed. Detective controls identify security events that have already occurred, and this does not detect the compromised account—it directs what must happen afterward. A compensating control mitigates risks due to exceptions in the security policy like a violation of policy due to an inability to implement a specific technical control like patching. A preventive control attempts to stop a security issue before it occurs. Here, the issue has already occurred. The policy of directive control tells staff what do to, and the action of locking the account is a corrective control.