Your IT security team is responding to a denial of service attack against your server. They have taken measures to block offending IP addresses. Which type of threat control is this?
Your IT security team is responding to a denial of service attack against your server. They have taken measures to block offending IP addresses. Which type of threat control is this?
Blocking offending IP addresses in response to a denial of service attack is a type of corrective control. Corrective controls are actions taken to correct or mitigate the effects of a security incident that has already occurred. In this case, blocking the IP addresses aims to restore the normal function of the server and mitigate the ongoing attack.
Is this B instead?